Sabrina Sharmin
Cox's Bazar
Summary
With over 5 years of experience in Information Management, Planning, Monitoring, and Research roles I have extensive working experience in multisectoral interventions within humanitarian response and development contexts. I have developed expertise in results-based monitoring, data quality assurance, monitoring tool development, field monitoring, data analysis, and planning through supporting different UNICEF programmes in Cox’s Bazar, including Child Protection, Education, WASH, Nutrition, Health, and Social and Behavior Change (SBC). In the last 4+ years at UNICEF Bangladesh, I have a proven track record of creating impactful information products, enhancing programme performance reporting, and building capacity in survey methodologies, research, and knowledge management. Moreover, advancements in different technical tools such as XLS form, GIS, PowerBI, and Tableau fostered my skills in data management, monitoring, and developing innovative solutions.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Child Protection Information Management Officer (Consultant)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Cox's Bazar
04.2024 - 11.2024
- Provide technical support to the Child Protection Programme in identifying indicators/activity and setting targets, and budgets for the Humanitarian Action Plan (HAC) and Joint Response Plan (JRP)
- Support the child protection section in preparing a multi-year work plan incorporating JRP, HAC, and Rolling Work Plans (RWP) activities, targets, and budgets
- Contribute to the child protection CSI indicators mapping for the reporting on Humanitarian Situations in RAM 3.0
- Develop and update PowerBI and Excel Dashboard, and Infographics to support the CP Manager and PD managers, with necessary data for donor proposals and reports, situation analyses, situation reports, and periodic updates
- Provide technical support in project monitoring, data collection, data reporting and data analysis, and provide timely and accurate information, 5W data
- Facilitate capacity development workshop and provide technical support to the CP implementing partners on the indicator measurement method, reporting child protection results in 'InForm', collecting field data using ODK, and analyzing and verifying data
- Analyse, verify and monitor Humanitarian Performance Monitoring (HPM) achievements for CP and GBV indicators to coincide with monthly PMT meeting
- Support the child protection field monitoring focal in planning programme monitoring visit (PMVs), creating visit reports following field monitoring module in eTools, and follow up on timely completion
- Support to ensure collaboration between the CP and the Third-Party Monitoring (TPM) for technical input and quality assurance
- Contributed to the development of the child protection JRP 2025 and HAC 2025 for Rohingya camps, Cox’s Bazar host community and Bhasan Char
- Developed an internal data and information management system to collect, analyse and monitor the progress of child protection results, HPM and CSI indicators achievements, and situation analyses
- Created and Managed a Dashboard on CP HPM results, and child protection result reports 2024 to provide readily updated monthly data
- Led capacity development workshop for CP implementing partners to harmonize data collection register at the facility level, indicators reporting method in 'InForm' and setting standard CP indicators in programme document result framework aligning with CSI and CCC commitments
- Provided data and analytics for CP to complete quarterly, interim, and final reports of ECHO, FCDO and INTPA-funded programmes
Information Management Officer (United Nations Volunteer)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Cox's Bazar
04.2021 - 04.2024
- Develop result reporting and field monitoring tools to monitor output indicator results and support real-time monitoring of UNICEF programmes (Child Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Education, and SBC) using UNICEF’s data collection platform (Ona, InForm)
- Analyse, verify and manage the progress of Humanitarian Performance Monitoring (HPM), ensure timely inputs in the quarterly situation reports and update the PowerBI dashboard for presentation in the monthly PMT meeting
- Develop output monitoring Dashboard using PowerBI for tracking UNICEF programme results, gap analysis and ensuring required information is readily available
- Support PMR section to update FOIP from programme sections, and review alignment with HAC, JRP and RWP to ensure all information is updated as per RAM format
- Develop the capacity of UNICEF's Child Protection, and other programmes' implementing partners and provide technical assistance on mobile data collection, reporting the indicator results in 'InForm'
- Support PMR team in organizing training and workshops on RAM eWork planning module, ePD, HACT and Partnership, Rights and Results Based Management (RRBM) with programme sections and implementing partners
- Conduct Data Quality Assurance (DQA) and gap analyses at the field level for the UNICEF programmes (Child Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Education, and SBC) and emergency preparedness plan upon agreed data sources
- Support in compiling monthly field monitoring (FM) reports from Six programme sections ensuring AAP analysis is incorporated during the field monitoring meeting
- Collect, and analyse geospatial data and prepare maps using GIS software, analyse potential hazard risk, and produce maps of service delivery/facilities
- Develop XLS forms for result reporting, survey assessment, and field monitoring in ONA/InForm for program sections (Nutrition, CP, Health, Education, WASH, SBC) in 2022, 2023, and 2024
- Contributed to creating data collection, analysis, and verification system within the PMR team to monitor the progress of HPM indicators and navigate the output indicators performance by the programme sections and implementing partners
- Contributed to developing dashboard for UNICEF Cox’s Bazar Programme output monitoring using PowerBI and Excel
- Support the PMR team to coordinate with programme sections in developing HAC, JRP and FOIP in 2022 and 2023
- Facilitated training and orientation sessions for implementing partners M&E/IM officers on InForm result reporting, basic GIS mapping and volunteers on field data collection using ODK
- Conducted around 12 field monitoring with Child Protection, WASH, SBC, Health, Nutrition and Education to observe programme activities, challenges, data collection, recording, verification and reporting system, 2 DQAs, and developed monitoring field trip reports
Information Management Associate (United Nations Volunteer)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Cox's Bazar
04.2020 - 04.2021
- Support data collection and information needed for UNICEF's programme, monitoring, and reporting purposes, ensuring compliance and full engagement of all UNICEF partners in the reporting platform (Ona, Kobo etc.)
- Support in field monitoring to gap analysis for programme, emergency preparedness and response data collection at the field level
- Collaborate with information management officers of Child Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Education, and SBC sections to ensure quality and consistency in data from the field, such as 4W information, section, and sector data collection
- Collect and analyse geospatial data and produce GIS maps of service delivery/facilities
- Update dashboard data in response to the COVID-19 pandemic situation in Bangladesh, including Rohingya camps and Cox’s Bazar host community
- Develop data visualization products (maps, dashboards, and infographics)
- Conduct training on mobile data collection using ODK and GPS coordinates collection
- Developed PowerBI Dashboard to monitor the status of regular and COVID-19 HPM indicators, expiring PDs, outstanding DCTs, PVs, and Spot-checks
- Managed the UNICEF Covid-19 Dashboard to provide updates about COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh, UNICEF's response across various sectors, including health, nutrition, risk communication, education, child protection, and WASH
- Conducted monitoring of cash assistance to Rohingya Foster Children facilitate by DSS as well as supported weekly post distribution monitoring
- Collected geospatial data of UNICEF-supported water distribution networks (WDN) in Rohingya camps and Host communities from 7 implementing partners and support in developing GIS Maps of 44 WDN in Rohingya camps and 3 in Host community
Junior Research Assistant
Center for Participatory Research and Development–CPRD
Dhaka
03.2019 - 04.2020
- Conduct a comprehensive study on climate-induced displacement and migration, addressing the impacts and challenges experienced by affected populations
- Support various research activities, including literature reviews, Focus Group Discussion (FGD), Key Informant Interview (KII), and Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) methodologies
- Analyse statistical and geographical data using GIS and Remote Sensing (RS) to enhance the depth and precision of research findings
- Assist in organising study-sharing seminars, workshops, training, and advocacy events to disseminate research outcomes to stakeholders
- Support in developing research project proposals, briefing papers, comprehensive workshops, and seminar reports
- Conducted a case study on climate-induced migration and displacement in Bangladesh which was published by Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA)
- Supported in organizing 3 study-sharing seminars, developing 1 training module and 2 workshop reports
Education
Master of Science - GIS for Environment and Development
Jahangirnagar University
10.2023 - 11.2024
Bachelor of Urban & Regional Planning - undefined
Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET)
01.2017 - 12.2017
Skills
- Remote Sensing and GIS
- ArcGIS
- ArcGIS Pro
- QGIS
- ERDAS Imagine
- SPSS
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Open Data Kit
- Microsoft Power BI
- Tableau
Custom
- ETools Field Monitoring Modules (FMM) training, UNICEF Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 2024
- Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) Training, UNICEF Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 2023
- Training on Electronic Programme Document (ePD), UNICEF Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 2023
- RRBM Training, UNICEF Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 2022
- Empowering women in geospatial information technology (GIT), ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2021
- Data Analysis Using SPSS, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh, 2021
- Power BI Training, UNICEF Cox's Bazar, 2020
- Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB), 2020
- Data Analysis with MS Excel and PowerBI, Bangladesh Institution of Planners (BIP), 2019
Languages
English
Upper intermediate
Bengali
Native
Accomplishments
UNV Country Awards – Bangladesh 2021 (International Volunteer Day- Bangladesh)
Ministry of Local Govt. Rural Development and Co-operatives, UNV Bangladesh and, UNDP Bangladesh [05/12/2021 ]
I was honoured with the UNV Country Awards in Bangladesh 2021, and recognized as one of the top UN Volunteers for my contributions to the community and the well-being of children in both the Host and Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh"
Timeline
Child Protection Information Management Officer (Consultant)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
04.2024 - 11.2024
Master of Science - GIS for Environment and Development
Jahangirnagar University
10.2023 - 11.2024
Information Management Officer (United Nations Volunteer)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
04.2021 - 04.2024
Information Management Associate (United Nations Volunteer)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
04.2020 - 04.2021
Junior Research Assistant
Center for Participatory Research and Development–CPRD
03.2019 - 04.2020
Bachelor of Urban & Regional Planning - undefined
Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET)
01.2017 - 12.2017
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