Vacancy Available
Data Entry Assistant
Job description
Organisation: ACTED
Department: REACH Initiative, Yemen Mission
Position: Data Entry Assistant (1 vacant)
Direct hierarchy: REACH Senior GIS Officer, REACH Assessment Officer
Contract duration: 10 days
Location: Amman, Jordan – freelance, from home.
Starting date: 24 Sep 2017 (or as soon as possible)
Main Objective
Under the supervision of the REACH Assessment Officer and REACH Senior GIS Officer, the Data Entry Assistants are responsible for an accurate, timely and efficient database of the data collected from the field. The Data Entry Assistants support the Assessment Helpdesk and Media Assistant in data entry and translation, contributing to the REACH Yemen team in terms of delivering high quality outputs. The Data Entry Assistants are also responsible for good organization of archives, the correct data reporting of project achievements, and providing additional support as required to support broader activities conducted by the REACH Initiative.
Responsibilities and Duties
1.Data processing and management:
To process data and information from the field – in particular ensure quality, consistency, accuracy, truthfulness, comprehensiveness of all collected data
To provide accurate and timely English translations of data collected in Arabic (Yemeni colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic)
To enter all data and figures as needed into the database in a consistent, accurate and efficient manner
To contact enumerators and other field staff to check accuracy and consistency of collected data
To provide translation for focus group discussion transcripts and ad-hoc translation as required
To maintain up-to-date databases as required
To provide data outputs upon request
2.Project support:
To support data analysis and reporting when called upon
To support data entry as required
To provide additional support to assessments and other activities of REACH, including research tasks, and administrative and logistical support as requested
Interested candidates to send their CVs to:
Post-closing date is 23 Sep 2017
