Database Officer at Handicap International (HI)

The Database Officer ensures the use of data management tools on the project(s) and/or in the geographical area(s) of intervention to which he/she is assigned, as defined in the data management system framework established by the MEAL Manager. He or she controls the quality of the different data transiting the system.

S/he will be responsible for

• Mission 1 : Operational implementation

Responsibility 1: Contributes to the development of tools

• Participates in the development of data collection forms (paper or mobile data collection (MDC));
• Creates the corresponding databases;
• Carries out tests on the input and extraction of data.

Responsibility 2: Supervises (or carries out) data inputting

• Trains and supports the teams responsible for inputting data from paper forms into the database (in the case of paper data collection) or the field teams in charge of the day-to-day use of MDC tools when available;
• Ensures that the data in the database is up-to-date or regularly synchronised;
• Inputs data, if the organisation requires.

Responsibility 3: Carries our data processing and cleaning

• Centralises information and compiles the updated version of the database;
• Sets up and runs a regular series of tests to check the quality of the data and identify potential errors;
• Takes appropriate action to correct or neutralise identified errors;

Responsibility 4: Archives the databases

• During the course of the project, makes regular backups and archives the intermediate versions of the databases;
• At the end of the project, prepares and archives the final version of the databases and deletes the intermediary versions in the different storage spaces

Responsibility 5: Identifies measures to improve data quality

• In conjunction with the project teams and the MEAL teams, proposes measures to improve data quality.
• Monitors and alerts if errors occur during a data collection exercise so that corrective action can be taken and future errors limited.

Mission 2: Emergency preparedness and response

• Contributes to the programme’s emergency preparedness actions and, in an emergency, adapts his or her working methods to contribute to an effective humanitarian approach by HI.

Qualifications and Skills required :-

• Degree in computer science specialising in data management / information management

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years practical experience in related discipline , particularly in development of humanitarian context and mobile data collection

Professional skills:

• Results and indicators monitoring
• Planning and coordination of qualitative and quantitative surveys, dissemination of findings

Project evaluation

• Accountability to populations: participatory, non-discriminatory and responsible approaches
• Learning lessons from experience and continuous learning
• Information management strategy, data structuring and data quality
• Quantitative and qualitative data collection, qualitative analysis
• Responsible data management
• Statistical analysis and data visualisation