Database Officer

All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organization’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and believes shall guide our actions and relationships. 

    1. Role and responsibilities:

The Emergency Response Database Officer is responsible for ensuring correct data entry, supporting in reporting on project activities and in producing data analysis for internal programme learning. The Database Officer will also play a key role in building the capacity of the Emergency Response team members in data entry.

Generic Responsibilities:

1. Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
2. Support in the preparation and the implementation of regular reports and assessments.
3. Provide training on data entry and data analysis to Emergency Response team across Lebanon depending on needs.
4. Facilitate and contribute to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning activities of Emergency Response programme.
5. Perform ongoing monitoring of, and provide feedback on how to improve, the programme’s data collection, entry, storage, analysis and presentation
6. Supervise the data collection related to Emergency Response hotlines and the performance of Emergency response team.
7. Ensure that NRC’s related activities are implemented within NRC’s Protection mainstreaming guidelines and report any breaches/concerns to the line manager and/or focal point for proper action.
8. Ensure that all protection related detected cases are referred to the concerned referral focal point and to the related Protection Coordinator.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the methodological design for the collection of relevant information and data, and prepare written reports and maps, including input for weekly and monthly updates about the situation.

• Monitor and improve quality of information provided by Emergency Response staff, provide feedback to team members, and adjust templates as required

• Facilitate and support the evaluation plan implemented by the Evaluation, Accountability and Learning unit.
• Work closely with Emergency Response team and other relevant stakeholders to ensure timely reporting on project’s activities
• Work closely with Emergency Response team on protection and legal assessments and analysis.
• Refer cases reported by Emergency Response Staff or refugees to relevant NRC programmes and external agencies according to referral pathways and Project Manager’s recommendations.
• Maintain an up-to-date database for tracking of referrals and issues requiring follow-up.
• Support in emergency response activities in other areas as requested.

Critical Interfaces:

By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces with this position are:

• Relevant Evaluation analysis and learning coordinators in Beirut
• Database Officers of other field teams when necessary
• Emergency Response team
• Humanitarian actors
• Beneficiaries and host communities

    2. Competencies:

Professional competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Information Management, Social Work, Social Sciences, Economics, or other relevant field
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience in the humanitarian/development sector
• Experience with data collection and analysis
• Experience in providing workshops and trainings (desirable)
• Experience with information provision and counselling services (desirable)
• Fluent in Arabic and English, both written and spoken
• Proficient in MS office applications

Behavioral competencies:

• Analysing
• Handling insecure environments
• Planning and delivering results
• Coping with change
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Working with people