Traineeship in Data and Analytics

Contract

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What we do

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) works worldwide to provide humanitarian assistance to people affected by conflict and armed violence. We take action in response to emergencies and at the same time promote respect for international humanitarian law. We are an independent and neutral organization, and our mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. We work closely with National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and with their International Federation in order to ensure a concerted, rational and rapid humanitarian response to the needs of the victims of armed conflict or any other situation of internal violence. We direct and coordinate the international activities conducted in these situations.

The ICRC Assistance Division is a vast and rapidly growing operation that covers diverse areas of activity, i.e., health services, economic security, water and habitat and weapon contamination. To support its programs across the globe, there is a need to consolidate, transform and maintain its data for transversal strategy-building and decision-making.

Purpose

The ideal candidate will use their passion for data and analytics to provide insights to the business covering a range of topics. They will contribute to the maintenance and management of data, reports and analyses. They will be responsible for conducting both recurring and ad hoc analysis for business users. In addition, they will partner with the global Assistance community in the field and at headquarters in building meaningful and actionable Business Intelligence capability.

Reports to (role)

The Associate reports to the Head of Data and Analytics.

Accountabilities & Functional responsibilities

Day-to-day operations

Understand the day-to-day issues that our activities in the field face, which can be better understood with data

Monitor data quality in terms of accuracy, completeness and timeliness, and collaborate with the Assistance Units, other divisions and the field to resolve data quality issues

Support Assistance end users of the front-end tool, in headquarters and in the field

Prepare and process raw structured and unstructured data

Produce high quality dashboards to reflect the Assistance Division’s activities and projects

Develop clear visualizations to convey complicated data in a straightforward fashion

Contribute and work on regular and ad-hoc reports and analyses, including institutional reports and ensure coherence, accuracy and alignment with data policies

Accountabilities and functional responsibilities

Data Management / Business intelligence

Contribute to better data management and business intelligence capability

Enrich BI-capability through additional data sources and new indicators

Ensure the coherence and harmonization of data to policies and guidelines, aligning the data model to referential data and monitoring the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of data, along with corrective actions for data issues and escalations (according to the established support model and processes)

Contribute to and maintain the support structure for data quality

Contribute to models and analyses with actionable insights

Desired profile and skills

• Fluency in English
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in information management, data science, computer science, mathematics, statistics or a similar technical field
• Must have a maximum of one year’s professional experience after graduation (related to the post) or two years if you been in previous traineeships.
• Strong knowledge of Excel and front-end tools (Tableau, QlikView)
• Flexible, rigorous, detail-oriented, proactive, with good relationship-building skills and a customer service mindset
• Ability to analyze complex, technical, qualitative and quantitative information and to tell the story behind the numbers
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Strongly motivated by humanitarian work
• Understanding of the mission and mandate of the ICRC

Assets

• Experience in data management, database, or business intelligence is a plus
• Knowledge of RDB programming (SQL, Oracle Rdb) or statistical packages /SAS, SPSS) is a plus
• Knowledge of French
• Experience in humanitarian operations is a plus

Additional information

• Type of role / Contract type: Traineeship
• Working rate: 100%
• Starting date: 25.04.2022
• Location: Geneva
• Relocation: Not provided for traineeships
• Length of assignment: 12 months

The ICRC values diversity and is committed to create an inclusive working environment. We welcome application from all qualified candidates.