Database Management Specialist

Organizational Setting

FAO Afghanistan is investing, across all 34 provinces, in resilience reinforcing actions that focus on protecting agriculture livelihoods and local ecosystems, boosting local production of nutritious foods and cash-incomes, and safeguarding critical agriculture sectoral development gains achieved over the past couple of decades through revitalizing rural markets and economy. In 2022-2023, FAO will, under the life-saving assistance Outcome (1) of the UN Transitional Engagement Framework (TEF), focus on the following four priority actions: (i) Safeguarding Wheat Seed Security, (ii) Enhancing Local Production of Nutritious Food, (iii) Livestock Protection and Dairy Sector Support, and (iv) Restoring Irrigation Structures to Boost Cash Incomes. Additionally, FAO will contribute towards resilience building activities under Outcome 2 of the TEF.

This is a National Project Personnel position – SB4.

Reporting Lines

The Database Management Specialist will work under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative, the direct supervision of the Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer and the technical supervision of the Head of MEAL Team.

Technical Focus

The position will support the FAO Afghanistan MEAL team to ensure the availability of reliable, high quality data to monitor and report against FAO Afghanistan’s programme. In strong collaboration with the MEAL and Programming colleagues, the Database Management Specialist will play an important role in improving data quality and information management to strengthen analytical processes, and facilitate knowledge sharing and learning across the FAO programme.

Tasks and responsibilities

• In consultation with programming, MEAL and Senior Management colleagues, identify the information needs within FAO Afghanistan; • Support the questionnaire development and associated deployment to the KOBO toolbox; • Support primary data collections (beneficiary registration, baselines, PDMs, midlines, endlines); • Support with data cleaning, curation and preparation of large volume database; • Prepare a summary extraction of geospatial data to link with georeferenced survey data and other data sources; • Provide quantitative analytical support, including econometric analysis, spatial analysis and/or other methods; • Contribute to the generation of reports and briefs and to the validation and interpretation of results; • Support with data visualization (dashboards and maps) for different internal and external audiences; • Support the MIS User Support Specialist with the pilot of the beneficiary management system; • Support the MEAL team with various trainings included to enumerators on the KOBO toolbox etc.; • Perform any other related duties as required.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimum Requirements

• Advanced degree (Master’s) or University degree (Bachelor’s) in statistics, economics, agricultural economics, information management, database management or a related field. • For advanced degree at least five (5) years of professional experience in data collection, data analysis, data visualisation and database management. • For university degree at least seven (7) years of professional experience in data collection, data analysis, data visualisation and database management. • Working knowledge (level C) of English and local languages (Pashto and/or Dari). • National of Afghanistan.

FAO Core Competencies

• Results Focus • Teamwork • Communication • Building Effective Relationships • Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Technical/Functional Skills

• Extent and relevance of experience in database management; • Familiarity with quantitative methods for economic analysis; • Experience with data cleaning, merging and visualization; • Knowledge of remote sensing and/or geospatial analysis is a strong advantage; • Ability to work under minimal supervision to meet tight deadlines; • Previous work experience with the UN is considered a strong asset; • Strong professional command of Microsoft Office, in particular Word and Excel; • Experience in quantitative data analysis using statistical tools (i.e. STATA, R, PowerBI, SPSS etc.).

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• FAO does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing)
• Incomplete applications will not be considered. If you need help please contact: [email protected]
• Applications received after the closing date will not be accepted
• Please note that FAO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/
• For additional employment opportunities visit the FAO employment website: http://www.fao.org/employment/home/en/
• Appointment will be subject to certification that the candidate is medically fit for appointment, accreditation, any residency or visa requirements, and security clearances.