Job Title: Data Clerk – IRC

Sector: Monitoring & Evaluation

Employment Category: Fixed Term

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Nairobi – Rongai, Kenya

Job Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their lives. The IRC has been working in Kenya since 1992, where it implements programs in health, nutrition, governance and rights, Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE), Protection, and Economic Recovery and Development (ERD).

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.

Standards of Professional Conduct: The IRC and IRC workers should carry through, the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability and Equality. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and implements policies on Beneficiary Protection; from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.

Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other encouraging benefits and allowance.

Kenyan nationals are encouraged to apply. International allowances are not available for this position. Salary and employee benefits are compliant to the Kenyan NGO Sector.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Disclaimer:

Please take note that International Rescue Committee (IRC) does not ask for any fees in connection with its recruitment processes.

For application: https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/39950?c=rescue

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