Data Collector
Job Description
Role and responsibilities
Under the supervision of the NRC M&E officer, the data collector is expected to collect quality data using digital technologies from randomly selected households in a door-to-door manner in compliance with NRC policies and standards. He/she is also responsible for collecting the data from the right person, ensuring the data’s accuracy and validity, and liaising with relevant stakeholders and local authorities at the time of data collection.
Generic responsibilities
- Data collectors will visit randomly select households in the assigned kebele and collect relevant data from the head of the household using digital technology.
- Each data collector team will go through all questionnaires and fill in respondents’ words.
- Data collectors will liaise with Kebele officials.
- Data collector must obtain informed consent from the selected respondents for the household head/representatives
- Interview the head of households/ family members and accurately record their responses.
- Review each questionnaire on the tablet before leaving the respondent’s house and ensure all questions are answered correctly.
- Conduct and properly script the collected data from key informant interviews with the Kebele administration and focus group discussions with selected beneficiaries.
- Send data to the NRC server daily.
Job Requirements
Competencies
Competencies are important in order for the employee and the organisation to deliver desired results. They are relevant for all staff and are divided into the following two categories:
Professional competencies
These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.
Generic professional competencies:
- Bachelor’s/Diploma in information technology/IT, computer science, statistics, engineering, and other social sciences and relevant field of study.
- A minimum of 2 years in the private sector and government offices.
- Experience in mobile data collection with KOBO Collect is advantageous
- Training in mobile data collection has an added advantage
- Experience in undertaking a similar role
Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:
- Previous experience in data collection using tablets is highly advantageous.
- Proficiency in Afar and English language is mandatory.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational and team working skills
- Good cultural awareness and sensitivity
LFS Assistant /Biometrician – Temporary
Job Description
1. Role and responsibilities
The LFS Assistant /Beneficiary Verifier/Biometrician Assistant will be responsible for organizing and registering vulnerable households and facilitating and ensuring transparency and accountability for the target community. The project Assistant will be responsible for the Verification of beneficiaries’ identity at the distributions and updating beneficiaries’ data when needed.
Generic responsibilities
- Classify households according to their level of vulnerability and ensure that food assistance is targeted to households based on their vulnerability.
- Involved in Community-based preliminary registration.
- Establish community registration or targeting committee and ensure are good representatives for the community groups.
- Establish a community registration/targeting committee based on the camp context and also establish primary, secondary, and exclusion criteria.
Specific responsibilities
- Ensure all the processes are duly recorded and publicly announced to all households within the camp
- Training of community targeting committee on how to use targeting criteria.
- Provide the registration format/forms to establish the draft registration master list
- Register beneficiaries by using the SCOPE system to capture beneficiaries’ details and targeting criteria.
- Validate and verify beneficiaries’ information before saving it to the system
- Verify Beneficiaries’ identity during the food distributions.
- Prepare and submit daily reports of delivered and distributed food
Job Requirements
Competencies
Competencies are important in order for the employee and the organisation to deliver desired results. They are relevant for all staff and are divided into the following two categories:
Experience and Qualification:
- The candidate should have at least Diploma /Bachelor of science (preferably IT).
- Should have at least 1 year of experience in Beneficiaries registration.
- Prior experience in WFP SCOPE system is added value
- Able to work with a team.
- The candidate should have leadership skills.
- Have good management skills
- Should have good communication skills.
- It will be preferable if he/she is from the targeted community.
Professional competencies
These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.
Generic professional competencies:
- Experience from working as a Project Officer in a humanitarian/recovery context
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
- Some knowledge of English
Behavioral competencies
These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job.
- Planning and delivering results
- Empowering and building trust
- Communicating with impact and respect
- Handling insecure environment
Warehouse Assistant/Storekeeper – Temporary
Job Description
Role and responsibilities
The Storekeeper/Commodity will handle receipt/dispatch and verification of commodities to maximize quality of warehouse operations and mitigate losses, and to support the best storage management practices in compliance with NRC warehouse standards and established guidelines.
The storekeeper will have the following Responsibilities: –
Generic responsibilities
- Effectively receive/dispatch commodities including transhipment (truck to truck) against official approved documentation (e.g., waybills and/or delivery notes) ensuring accuracy in physical count of commodities including the quality in compliance with the established standards.
- Prepare, verify, and sign off warehouse and transport documents, and maintain confidential files and accurate warehouse transaction records to ensure immediate reporting on commodity movements in line with the corporate requirements.
- Conduct daily warehouse closing reconciliation and accurate inventory checks supporting internal control systems in compliance with the warehouse management requirements.
- Perform daily inspections and prepare reports on the quantity and quality of the commodities received/dispatched and handled, detect promptly, and analyse reasons for stock discrepancies/damages, investigate missing quantity and prepare warehouse loss reports recommending appropriate solutions, to enable informed decision-making.
- Implement appropriate measures to safeguard food and non-food commodities, to ensure quality control using standard preventive measures in line with NRC established procedures and authorization received from the supervisor.
- Monitor condition of the warehouse and commodities and take appropriate actions, to support efficient warehouse space-planning and well-organized commodity storage following NRC warehouse standards.
- Provide guidance and on-the-job training to warehouse staff to contribute to their development and high performance.
Job Responsibility
1: Requesting, Receiving and Stocking (40%)
- Establish the maximum and minimum stock level for each stock item as required
- Request the delivery of commodity when they are below the minimum stock level
- Undertake appropriate inspection, counting, weighing of materials, supplies, commodities, etc. received through purchase or donation.
2: Issuing (35%)
- Issue Commodities, and materials, to the required need people /units upon receipt of duly signed authorization documents.
- Dispatch all commodities/items against official payment authorization sheet.
- Check and ensure that the approved payment authorization sheet is accompanied with a with payroll sheet.
3: Store Management (15%)
- Design appropriate storage arrangements in the stores for efficient utilization of the available space, and to allow easy movement of people in the store
- Record all incoming and outgoing Commodities in bin cards and the daily inventory register. Bin cards are to be stuck or hung on the shelves/stack to facilitate identification and inventory counting.
- Organize all Commodities received by types and according to their classifications, and store them, allocating available space of the store economically and diligently to minimize commodity damages.
Job Responsibility #4: Documentation and Reporting (5%)
- File all documents such as suppliers packing lists or delivery order, CRN, bin cards, etc.
- Regularly check records against stock held and submit reports.
- Maintain an accurate record of Commodity-stock movement and current balances.
Job Responsibility #5: Other (5%)
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
Competencies
Competencies are important in order for the employee and the organisation to deliver desired results. They are relevant for all staff and are divided into the following two categories:
Value driven competencies
Values are aspirational attitudes and beliefs that influence the way people conduct themselves. NRC’s values are: Dedicated, Innovated, Inclusive and Accountable.
Professional skills
Professional skills are the skills, knowledge and experience that are essential to ensure good performance.
- 2 year of related work experience for Diploma
- 1 year of related work experience for Degree
- NGO experience is a plus
Context-specific skills, knowledge, and experience:
- Diploma/Bachelor’s degree in logistics , warehouse management or other related fields
- Previous work experience with satisfactory performance in the same or similar field, preferably with humanitarian NGOs or UN agency.
- Computer skills (MS Office,)
- Fluency in English and local language
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Ability to proactively take initiatives and decisions, identify opportunities and propose ideas and solutions.
- Experience working in complex and volatile contexts.
- Very strong writing and analytical skills
- Ability to work closely with local authorities, UN, and INGOs and decentralized technical services.
- Good representation in humanitarian coordination working groups.
- High level of communication, flexibility, and negotiation
Behavioral competencies
These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job.
- Managing resources to optimize results
- Handling insecure environments
- Interpersonal skill
- Good communication skill
- Trustworthiness
How to Apply
Application procedure
Interested candidates who meet the above criteria are invited to send in their application letters including updated curriculum vitae with day-time telephone number and contact details of three work-related referees only through ethiojobs.
Your application letter should mention your preferable location or a location which is closer to your hometown
Please attach photocopies of the most relevant educational certificates/testimonials and work experience documents. Applications should reach NRC latest by 15 September 2023 at 5:00 pm.
NB: only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.
“Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply and on-the-job training will be provided!”
