Data Clerk at International Rescue Committee

Position Summary:

IRC is seeking a Data Clerk to be based in Nairobi for a Euro 30 Million five year, urban livelihoods program: Refugees in East Africa: Boosting Urban Innovations for Livelihoods Development (RE:BUILD). The RE: BUILD program is funded by the IKEA Foundation and will be implemented in Kampala and Nairobi. The IRC is the Lead Partner and will coordinate a consortium of local and international partners to deliver the program. RE: BUILD seeks for urban refugees and vulnerable host residents to achieve economic self-reliance and benefit from strengthened urban economic, regulatory, and social environments. RE: BUILD will strive to enable change at varying levels, from better access to livelihood opportunities and inclusive services within communities to improved refugee-related policies and more targeted and effective service delivery from national, regional, and global actors. Key features of RE: BUILD’s approach include flexible funding, adaptive design and knowledge, and evidence generation.

Job Responsibilities:

• Participate actively in the enforcement of quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement measures for all program intervention.
• Support other RE:BUILD project staff members in registering clients using tablets, to program application database.
• support in the verification and cleaning of data to ensure compliance and avoidance of double servicing of clients within IRC programs and also within RE:BUILD implementing partners.
• Assist in verifying the accuracy of data as collected at all stages of program implementation and ensure data entered into the Comm Care application is accurate and of good quality.
• Cooperate with the project team in developing and updating database and project indicator dashboards.
• Handle data collection during baseline surveys, end line surveys, follow-up surveys, business monitoring, and USLA monitoring exercises.
• Coordinate closely with program staff and management on targeting, data collection, data systems and information management.
• Support the Client Responsiveness senior officer in organizing and attending client and partners feedback fora sessions.
• Participate in M&E learning cycles and M&E capacity building workshops for project staff.
• Undertake any other duties as advised by the supervisor.

Monitoring and Reporting

• Work with the other M&E staff to design and Implement Monitoring & Evaluation Plans.
• Conduct regular visits to project sites, as possible, to provide technical assistance and ensure proper monitoring of project activities.
• Work closely with Senior M&E Officer in the analysis and interpretation of data and in the creation of data exports and dashboards.
• Support the Senior M&E officer in preparing M&E monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports for the RE:BUILD management team and the donor, as needed and on-time.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Information Systems, Database Management, Computer Science, or related field.
• At least 1 to 2 years of meaningful work experience in monitoring and evaluation, data management, data analysis, or similar livelihood programming.
• Experience handling data collection and analysis, with experience with or concrete knowledge of open-source tools such as ODK collect, KoBo Toolbox, or CommCare platforms.
• Experience in mobile data collection, entry & data cleaning with a large database would be an added advantage.
• Humanitarian organization experience preferred, or experience interacting with refugees or vulnerable youths.
• Experience conducting critical data analysis and report writing.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop relations with local counterparts, donors, and other collaborators.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Fluency in English and Swahili required.