Job Title: Database
Officer
Hiring Organization: Education
Development Center
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Non
Profit
Job Type: Full
Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 05/07/2024
Education
Development Center (EDC) is a global nonprofit that advances lasting solutions
to improve education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity, with a
focus on vulnerable and under-served populations. Since 1958, we have been a
leader in designing, implementing, and evaluating powerful and innovative
programs in more than 80 countries around the world.
EDC
promotes equity and access to high quality education and health services and
products that contribute to thriving communities where people from diverse
backgrounds learn, live, and work together. We support an inclusive workplace
culture that embraces many perspectives and broadens our understanding of the
communities we serve, enhancing and enriching our work.
EDC is
committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace.
Project
Description
The Kenya
Primary Literacy Programme (KPLP) is a five-year initiative that supports the
Kenyan Ministry of Education to deliver interventions at scale as well as pilot
and expand innovations that address the language and literacy needs of primary
grade learners while building more inclusive, accountable, and resilient
education institutions and systems.
KPLP
has three broad objectives:
Improving
education services and student learning outcomes, including for vulnerable
populations;
Strengthening education institutions and systems to become more accountable,
self-sustaining, and resilient; and
Empowering local youth organizations to strengthen and sustain community and
family support for student learning and wellbeing.
Position
Description
The
Database Officer will assist in the design and development of a data collection
and management system for the project team. S/he will manage and troubleshoot
the Monitoring & Evaluation database and be responsible for generating
project reports, as well as supervising periodic data quality audits. S/he will
be responsible for development of appropriate dashboards, as required. The
Database Officer will take the lead in the development of tools for collecting,
assuring quality, entering, storing, retrieving and organizing project data.
S/he will
also support the MEL Specialist and collaborate with the MEL Manager and
Dashboard Specialist in the development of training and providing support for
data collection, analysis, dissemination, and use at all levels of service
delivery. This position reports to the MEL Specialist. This is a full-time
position based in Nairobi.
The
Database Officer’s responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Develops
standard operating procedures and systems for data collection, storage and
analysis of data;
- Designs
and manages upkeep of project database, including regular data security
and quality assurance activities, such as storage and backups, testing of
data integrity, periodic recovery testing, and logical consistency checks;
- Analyzes
data for dashboards, reports and presentations;
- Troubleshoots
issues with participants’ use of paper forms and tablets for data entry
into Performance Tracking System and provides technical assistance, as
needed;
- Builds
the capacity of project staff on basic and advanced data management
skills, data processing protocols and assisting with statistical analysis;
- Develops
and enforces project-wide data processing protocols, including manuals and
reference guides, for proper use of the project database and related
functions;
- Assists
in planning and implementing data reconstruction exercises;
- Supervises
the implementation of routine data quality audits;
- Provides
technical guidance to other staff in data management;
- Maintains
updated data collection and reporting tools;
- Works
with project staff to find and implement technological solutions to
data-related challenges;
- Produces
regular reports according to the guidelines determined by project
management;
- Works
with project team members and partners throughout the country to ensure
the database functionality meets their needs;
- Supports
the development and conduct of presentations related to data and
dashboards as needed;
Other
duties, as assigned.
The
candidate for the position of Database Officer shall have at a minimum the
following qualifications:
Education:
Bachelor’s
degree in computer science or other related degree required.
Skills
and Experience:
- 5
to 6 years experience developing, managing and troubleshooting M&E
databases required;
- Minimum
3 to 5 years’ experience working with international NGOs, preferably in
the education sector; experience with USAID-funded projects desirable;
- Experience
with data collection software such as SurveyToGo and KoBo Toolbox,
including programming software onto tablets for data collection purposes;
- Experience
in training and mentoring others in electronic data collection, especially
using tablets, preferred;
- Experience
conducting statistical analysis of data and proficiency in Microsoft
Office suite;
- Strong
organizational, communication, computer, and interpersonal skills;
- Experience
creating data visualizations, including charts, graphs, and maps;
- Demonstrated
ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as within
a team setting;
- Must
be able to negotiate diplomatically and function well under pressure and
meet strict deadlines.
- Candidates
must also demonstrate knowledge of the following computer languages and
systems.
