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About AWEC

AWEC is a non-political, non-profit, woman-headed national organization established in 1991 by a group of educated Afghan women in exile, who rallied together to address the lack of facilities for Afghan refugees in Islamabad and eventually Peshawar, in Pakistan. AWEC has always been involved in advocacy and awareness-raising for women and children’s rights while providing services to those who frequently fall through safety nets. In recent years, one of AWEC’s core activities has been to support women through mobilizing Afghans, from local communities to political elites, towards the goal of reducing and eventually eliminating violence against women.

Our vision in AWEC is “an inclusive and just society with sensitized and responsive public and private sector, where all women and children have access to opportunities to improve their quality of life in order to realize their full potential”.

Job Description

General Position Summary

The MEL Database Officer will be responsible for managing and maintaining the MEL database and ensuring data quality and accuracy for the program. The MEL Database Officer will coordinate with the MEL team and other program staff to collect, enter, analyze, and report on program data and indicators. The MEL Database Officer will also support the MEL activities of the program, including baseline, annual, and endline surveys, regular monitoring, feedback and reporting according to the MEL work plan. The MEL Database Officer will report to the Country MEL Manager and will be based in Herat.

Essential Job Responsibilities

MEL DATABASE

• Understand, maintain, and innovate a MEL system database (MIS) that improves the MEL’s ability to inform program implementation, analyze data, and represent impact to donors, colleague agencies, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure all relevant MEL staff are able to utilize the database to analyze program information and results.
• Design, adapt, test, and maintain the data collection tools/forms under supervision of the Country MEL Manager.
• Provide support and/or orientation in use of database, pivot tables and pivot charts to staff members that require it, or support on exporting to MS Excel for data analysis.
• Ensure the database is live and accessible to relevant team members.
• Review data being entered in the database regularly in order to locate and fix problems with data entry or integrity.
• Document system database contents, protocols according to Mercy Corps SOPs and manuals for smooth functioning.
• Work as part of a team to facilitate and support MEL operations including baseline, annual, and endline surveys, regular monitoring, data collection and analysis, feedback and reporting according to the MEL work plan.
• Generate data (tables/graphs/reports) from the database at regular intervals, ensuring reports/information are available for the relevant staff members when required.
• Facilitate data analysis with MEL team members as requested.
• Ensure the security and confidentiality of data, implementing data access controls and establishing backup protocols as per the Mercy Corps standard manuals and guidelines.
• Assist in deidentification of personally identifiable information based on the Mercy Corps standard manuals and guidelines.
• Conduct regular field visits to ensure all elements of the MEL system and database are being utilized effectively by all relevant teams, assessing, and identifying breakdowns and areas that require clarifications and improvements.
• Contribute to all field work, including identifying beneficiaries and vendors, participating in distributions, monitoring, and supporting beneficiaries during the distribution periods, and other field-based tasks as assigned.
• Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.
• Performs any other duty assigned by the supervisor.

Security

• Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.
• Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

Organizational Learning 

• As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient, and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

Accountability to Beneficiaries

• Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically
  to our program participants and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
• Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all in-country venues.

Supervisory Responsibility: N/A

Accountability

Reports Directly To: Country MEL Manager  

Works Directly With: PaQ Manager, MEL staff, and program teams where required.

Skills Required

• Practical skills in database management such as MSSQL server, and MySQL

Submission Guideline:

While sending your CV & Cover letter, please state the title/ subject line as:

MCA030-2023 Application for MEL Database Officer 

*Application received after the closing date or with a different subject line will not be given consideration.

Only short listed candidates whose application responds to the above criteria will be contacted for interview. Interested candidates should send their Application to: af-vacancieskbl@mercycorps.org

Submission Email:

af-vacancieskbl@mercycorps.org