Database Officer Lebanon Bekaa

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 5 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 5 (NRC) contracts.

All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and beliefs shall guide our actions and relationships.

Purpose of the role:

The Database Officer is responsible for contributing to the development of Shelter and Emergency Response procedures in the Bekaa by daily organising and maintaining the Shelter and Emergency Response Database and preparing relevant reports in line with NRC’s strategy and standards.

What you will do:

• Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Elaborate and maintain outputs database on a daily basis based on field data collection sheet
• Prepare data collection sheet for assistants
• Carry out data collection as required
• Prepare surveys as required
• Coordinate with the M&E department on data sharing
• Prepare targets progress reports
• Prepare donor monthly indicators database
• Ensure that NRC’s related activities are implemented within NRC’s Protection mainstreaming guidelines and report any breaches/concerns to the line manager and/or focal point for proper action.
• Ensure that all protection related detected cases are referred to the concerned referral focal point and to the related Protection Coordinator.

Specifically you will:

• Act as focal point for all NRC software related to field data collection – Kobo, ODK, dynamics 365, etc. As well as RAIS and Activity Info reporting.
• Prepare targets progress reports (weekly/monthly/quarterly) generated from the database.
• Perform Data entry on Shelter database and extracting data from database as requested by Shelter Project Manager
• Manage data regarding all implemented projects (owners, beneficiaries, bills of quantities, social assessments, annexes, etc.)
• Assist in preparation of shelter contracts for selected properties as well as payment requests when requested in collaboration with Finance
• Participate in the design of different databases and proposes technical solutions for consolidation of all data related to the project implementation.
• Ensure that all files (both soft and hard copies) are complete, enforcing the correct archiving of the documents and arranging to send relevant files to management and finance when requested.
• Coordinate with the M&E department on data sharing and NRC’s internal reporting systems including donor monthly indicators database.
• Manage all Shelter data back-up for the Bekaa offline and online clouds such as OneDrive, Dynamics 365, etc.

Professional competencies:

• Bachelor degree in Statistics, IT, Data Management, Social Work, Social Sciences, Economics, or other relevant field
• Minimum 2 years’ experience from working in a relevant position with humanitarian organizations
• Solid understanding of quantitative data processing
• Experience with data management software and tools (spreadsheets, SQL, ODK, other)
• Experience in information management and analysis, and M&E approaches and techniques.
• Knowledge of Kobo Collect. Google Earth; SPSS or other analytical software a plus
• Solid reporting skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
• Proficiency in Arabic and English, both written and verbal

Behavioral competencies:

• Planning and delivering results
• Handling insecure environments
• Working with people
• Coping with change
• Analyzing
• Communicating with impact and respect

What We Offer:

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.

We offer an opportunity to match your career to a compelling cause and a chance to meet and work with people who are the best in their fields.

We are also looking for people who share our values:

• To be dedicated in what we do;
• To be innovative with our solutions;
• To act as one unified and inclusive team;
• To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the people we exist to serve, and to each other… the members of our NRC family.

Kindly note that empty or incomplete applications as well as CVs received via email will not be considered official and will not be processed.