Regional Displacement Tracking Matrix

Job Identification (Reference Number)**:14595**
Position Title**:Regional Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Officer (P)**
Duty Station City**:Panama City**
Duty Station Country**:Panama**
Grade**:P-3**
Contract Type**:Fixed-Term (one-year with possibility of extension)**
Recruiting Type**:Professional**
Vacancy Type**:Vacancy Notice**
Initial duration**:One-year with possibility of extension**
Closing date**:29 May 2025**

**Introduction**

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**Organizational Context and Scope**

Under overall supervision of the Deputy Regional Director (DRD) for Operations, and the direct supervision of the Regional Thematic Specialist (Data and Research), and under the secondary supervision of the Global DTM Coordinator, the Regional DTM Officer will coordinate the displacement tracking and flow monitoring initiatives within the Region, ensuring compliance with global standards, quality of country-level outputs and analysis products and adherence to IOM data visualization, dissemination and sharing procedures.
- Responsibilities: 1. DTM Programme Development and Support:

- Coordinate and support the design, setup and roll out of new DTM initiatives and capacity building activities in accordance with IOM’s Strategic Plan, and global standards
and methodologies, in close coordination with the global DTM Support Team and Global Data Institute (GDI);
- Guide and support Country Offices in the use of IOM DTM methodologies based on the DTM methodological framework, standardized tools, implementation approaches and Information Management mechanisms to fit requirements at country level, while ensuring compatibility and efficient workflows with DTM global data standards and central data warehouse;
- Coordinate and support the implementation of mechanisms for compliance and quality standards of implementation, output, and deliverables at regional and country levels, in coordination with the global DTM Support Team; and,
- Support data for solutions to displacement programme development and support.

2. Technical Support and Capacity Building:

- Manage the technical aspects of Regional Data Hub (RDH) Information Management (IM) initiatives and ensure synergy of various related tools and systems development at the regional, country, and Headquarters (HQ) level;
- Ensure synergy of various related tools and systems development at regional, country, and headquarters levels;
- Coordinate data management processes of the regional data warehouse and ensure that the various data sources are up-to-date and available to inform analysis and sharing; and,
- Coordinate the development of methodologies and the tools for various data collection including at regional and country level as needed by regional mixed migration, mobility and displacement programming.

3. Data Analysis and Reporting:

- Provide monitoring and advice on the production of information products in relation to regional and country-level mobility data sources, including, but not limited to, analytical and statistical reports, maps and other relevant products, to ensure their highest possible quality; and,
- Ensure knowledge management in relation to DTM data assets and operations within the region and support their use to enable the work of other global operations pillar
programmes in pursuit of IOM’s strategic objectives.

4. Coordination and Partnerships:

- Provide regular information updates to relevant units and the global DTM Support Team;
- Develop and support, in coordination with Country Offices, operational partnerships with central and local authorities, service providers, agencies, and NGO partners to ensure effective implementation of DTM activities at national and district levels; and,
- Participate in relevant meetings and undertake duty travel relating to DTM operations assessment, liaison with counterparts, problem solving, and set up of new project/programmes, as required.

5. Good Data Practice and Dissemination:

- Ensure timely preparation and generation of information products;
- Accompany and support the adoption of the DTM data toolkit for good data practice implementation;
- Adhere to IOM data protection, governance, protection-based approaches, and security standards;
- Consider ethical data collection, use, sharing, and dissemination;
- Represent IOM in working groups and provide strategic inp