ACTED’s Greening Strategy

ACTED’s greening strategy aims to tackle environmental degradation and climate change while meeting the needs of the most vulnerable who are often those most affected by the deepening environmental crisis. Each ACTED employee will adhere to these principles through key green programming responsibilities:

• Contribute towards the adherence and development of the greening strategy plan.
• Explore innovative green programming opportunities and/or solutions within your realm of responsibilities and roles
• Encouraging and promoting environmental safeguarding processes and environmental programming standards in accordance with SOPs and technical guideline notes

ACTED PSEAH Policy:

(CHRM) has the responsibility to adhere and commit to the PSEAH Policy (Protection against Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment) always. As all managers and coordinators, the (CD) has the responsibility for ensuring that measures to prevent SEAH are implemented and regularly monitored. The (cd) should ensure that staff under his/her supervision/management understand and comply with ACTED PSEAH policy and have completed the mandatory trainings on the Code of Conduct and the PSEAH Policy. The (CD) should promote an environment to help prevent sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse both at the office and in the field and report any misconducts or SEAH issues appropriately according to ACTED’s procedures.

Job Purpose

Under the management of the Data Officer, and the supervision of the Research Manager, Data Specialist and Country Coordinator, the Data Assistant will be supporting with running data-related processes in coordination with Assessment Officers and the GIS team for assessments and monitoring systems covering Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Public Health. Regular duties will include data entry, data cleaning, updating KOBO tools, running and troubleshooting data cleaning and analysis scripts in R, and updating static outputs (maps) and other interactive outputs (dashboards). In addition, the Data Assistant is expected to periodically support with translation and ad-hoc partner training related to data processing activities.

Objectives

Objective 1: Supporting planning and implementing of data collection, including data quality assurance

The Data Assistant is responsible for supporting with planning and implementing data collection activities with technical expertise, monitoring and quality control. This may include supporting with developing sample frames, coding and maintaining KoBo tools, as well as employing Excel and scripts for data cleaning and processing. The Data Assistant will work with the Assessment Officers (AOs) and Data Officer within the unit to ensure that all data collection activities they carry out are in line with technical requirements set by IMPACT Initiatives. Additionally, the Data Assistant will pro-actively contribute to the development of new technical standards and tools to support data collection.

Objective 2: Data analysis and innovation

The Data Assistant will support the Assessment Officers with analysis of primary and secondary datasets. They will perform descriptive analyses and will work pro-actively to design innovative solutions and detailed analysis plans to fill information gaps in the humanitarian response.

Objective 3: Developing information products and dashboards

The Data Officer will collaborate with Assessment and GIS Officers (GISO) within the unit to create information products and dashboards for public use. The Data Officer will pro-actively design new ways of displaying information, based on the needs of REACH Yemen partners. The Data Officer is enthusiastic about the potential for data to shape humanitarian action, and about working with others to make this a reality.

FUNCTIONS

The REACH Data Assistant is responsible for completing the following tasks:

• Data collection planning and implementation support: Providing technical support to data collection and processing. Under the management of the Data Officer, collaborate with AOs to ensure that research design follows best practices concerning data quality and analysis.
• Data quality assurance: Under the management of the Data Officer, supporting AOs with data checking and validation to ensure that the data collected in the unit is of the highest quality.
• Data analysis support: Under the management of the Data Officer, supporting AOs with data analysis and ensuring that they accurately represent data in their work.

Creation of information products: Under the management of the Data Officer, support the AOs and GISO with creating factsheets, dashboards, and other information products to share with the wider humanitarian community.

Skills

• Relevant degree in Computer or Data Science, Statistics or related
• Good computer programming knowledge (Preferably in R)
• Good experience using Excel
• Demonstrable creative thinking and innovation skills
• Good prioritisation skills, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Fluent speaking and writing English and Arabic language
• Ability to operate in a cross-cultural environment requiring flexibility 

Desirable

• Master’s degree in Computer or Data Science, Statistics or related
• Professional experience analysing data with R or Python
• Knowledge of Tableau or Power BI
• Previous experience with mobile data collection (ODK, KOBO)
• Experience developing solutions for data management and analysis
• Familiarity with humanitarian needs assessment