Job Description
Career with BRAC Sierra Leone
BRAC is an award-winning international non-governmental development organisation, with the vision of a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential. BRAC is a leader in developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programs to assist poor and disadvantaged communities in low-income countries, including in conflict-prone and post-disaster settings. It is an organisation of and for the people of the Global South, pioneering new development and social enterprise approaches to equip communities to achieve prosperity. As well as being the world’s biggest NGO by number of staff and people directly reached, BRAC has regularly been ranked the number one NGO in the world by the Geneva-based NGO Advisor, an independent organisation committed to highlighting innovation, impact and governance in the non-profit sector. BRAC retained the top spot in 2020 among the top 500 NGOs for the fifth consecutive year.
Formation / Diplômes
BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. It started its first program outside of Bangladesh in Afghanistan in 2002 and has since reached millions of people in 11 countries in Asia and Africa. BRAC has a holistic approach to development that uses a wide array of programs and social enterprises, including in microfinance, education, health, agriculture, gender and human rights. BRAC believes that every person has inherent potential, and when an enabling environment is created and that potential is unleashed, even the poorest can become agents of positive change in their own lives, for their families and their communities.
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
The Mastercard Foundation Accelerating Impact for Young Women (AIM) in Partnership with BRAC is equipping 2 million adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) with age-appropriate entrepreneurship, employability, and life-skills training, as well as the tools to start and scale their own businesses. The nine-year program (2021-2030) applies BRAC’s proven model using microfinance, youth empowerment, agriculture, education and skills development to improve lives and livelihoods. It currently operates in seven African countries: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Kenya. Based on the AGYW age, needs, and circumstances, AGYW are placed on one of two pathways in the AIM program: an education pathway or a livelihood pathway.
In this regard, BRAC Sierra Leone is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill the following position in Sierra Leone
Programme:
Mastercard Foundation Accelerating Impact for Young Women in partnership with BRAC (AIM)
Job Title:
MIS Officer, AIM
Reporting to:
MIS Analyst
Level/Grade:
Localisation
Country Office
Number of positions:
JOB PURPOSE :
To support the MIS Analyst in keeping AIM participant and programme data in BInsight and related tools accurate, complete and up to date, and in producing the verified lists, reports and dashboards that programme management, payments and donor reporting rely on.
Responsabilités
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Enter, update and clean participant records in BInsight (enrolment, VSLA, training, livelihood and education pathway data) and keep them consistent with field records.
Run routine data quality checks for duplicates, ID and name mismatches, and missing or incorrect package assignments, and follow up corrections with Branch Managers and Programme Officers.
Prepare and verify participant lists for livelihood asset distribution, education cash transfers and bank e-voucher payments, reconciling BInsight, bank and field records before approval.
Reconcile participant cost-share collections between manual records and BInsight and flag gaps to the MIS Analyst.
Produce weekly, monthly and quarterly MIS reports, Excel and Power BI dashboards, and data
REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Advanced Excel (pivot tables, lookups, data validation and cleaning); Power BI or similar is an advantage.
Digital data collection tools (KoboToolbox, ODK, CommCare) and working knowledge of web-based MIS such as BInsight.
Basic statistical analysis (SPSS or Stata) and clear report writing.
Strong attention to detail and accuracy, and the ability to meet tight deadlines.
Good communication skills and the ability to support and train field staff.
Commitment to data confidentiality, safeguarding and BRAC values.
Expérience
At least 2 years of experience in data management, MIS or M&E in an NGO or development
programme. Experience with large beneficiary databases and with verifying cash transfer or
payment lists is an advantage.
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree (First Degree) Statistics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Economics or a
related field
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: CONTRACTUAL
SALARY: NEGOTIABLE/ MENTION THE AGREED SALARY AMOUNT OR RANGE
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