Reference No:  REC/082/23 Job title:           Senior Management Information Systems (MIS) Officer Number of vacancies per Area Offices  Addis Ababa (HO)Reports to: Head of MEAL Number of Posts1 (One)Closing date:   September 11, 2023

About GOAL 

GOAL’s mission is to work with the most vulnerable communities to help them respond to and recover from humanitarian crises, and to assist them to build transcendent solutions to mitigate poverty and vulnerability.

GOAL is a non-for profit organization that has been working in Ethiopia for over 30 years across all the region of the country towards ensuring the poorest and most vulnerable in our world and those affected by humanitarian crises have access to the fundamental rights of life, including but not limited to adequate shelter, food and livelihoods, water and sanitation, nutrition, healthcare and education. GOAL implements a range of multi-sectoral development, resilience, recovery and humanitarian responses Programmes by being sensitive to cross-cutting issues including gender, accountably, child protection, HIV/AIDS.

 We envision a world where poverty no longer exist, where vulnerable communities are resilient, where barriers to wellbeing are removed and where everyone has equal rights and  opportunities. GOAL Ethiopia’s main donors are Irish Aid, USAID/OFDA, EHF, ECHO and other private donors.

About the Position:

The Senior MIS Officer is responsible to: 

•        Generate analytical reports from all sources of data to support information requests from top management, program department.

•        Coordinate the process of generating visualizations products such as dashboards, maps, charts, and infographics that show findings, summarized and customized information to present to top management, advocacy team, other organization’s departments, donors and public Data Quality Control

•        Support the development of digital data collection systems using CommCare application and generating infographics using Power BI.

•        Properly support the MEAL team in data management system especially through high engagement of digitizing data collection tools into CommCare for routine monitoring as well as for different surveys and assessments.

Description of Functional Relation Ships of the role

The position holder will directly Report to the Head of MEAL. The role will provide technical solutions and support in reporting, data collection and integrity, data analysis, and information management systems and ensure that all processes are in accordance with GOAL standards.

Key Areas of Accountability/Duties

MIS support to Programs and Systems

• Support the MEAL team in designing and standardizing surveys and data capture processes to ensure reporting and KPIs are accurate, and information is accessible to a ran of audiences.

• Support country programs with form digitization and the development of dashboards (primarily using CommCare and Power BI).

• Assist in providing regular technical support for staff on MIS tools or platforms.

• Support training and building the capacity of staff on the use of MIS tools including the use of software services for: form digitalization (e.g. CommCare), dashboarding (e.g. Power BI) and other (e.g. ArcGIS).

Data analysis and visualization

• Support in the analysis of datasets using dashboarding (e.g. Power BI), statistical (e.g. SPSS/Python) and/or GIS (e.g. ArcGIS) tools.

• Share monthly data reports and visualizations for each GE project in alignment with regular Program Review Meetings and learning events.

• Contribute to monthly data reports and visualizations, in coordination with the GE MEAL team, to Program leads and SMT in support of adaptive management and the assessment of progress against project, program and country tarts, using statistical and data modelling.

• Assist Program staff to identify and respond to trends in already established datasets.

REMUNERATION and BENEFITS:

·       GOAL will pay a competitive basic salary based on the salary grading with addition benefits.

·       A chance to develop tangible experience.

·       Being part of a team who continue to make a real difference to the lives of the most vulnerable people.  

Commitments:

GOAL’s recruitment procedure is fair and transparent which is also in line with the organization’s commitment to its integrity, honesty and culture. GOAL is committed to ensure that, its performance complies with the terms and conditions of relevant agreements, applicable laws & regulations. Hence, pre-employment background checks will be conducted, and employees are required to read, understand, sign and implement different polices including safeguarding and child protection policy, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and abuse policy, sexual harassment policy, code of conducts and any other policy, rules and regulation of the organization. GOAL is committed to safeguarding and protection from sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (PSEAH). Staffs, partners and other who are in contact with GOAL work are expected to adhere to GO’L's PSEAH Policy and make ethical decisions to ensure the protection of people particularly children and vulnerable adults from sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment. 

Job Requirements

Do you want to join an exciting organization that brings high level impact to the community and add value to your professional advancement?  Then join us if you have:

• A bachelors degree in computer science, business analytics or another data-heavy field.

  Minimum of 2 years’ experience specifically related to data management and visualization.

  Basic knowledge of statistics and experience working with relational data structures,

  Excellent practical knowledge of ArcGIS software, CommCare and Power BI.

Desirable quality, skill and competence

• Experience working with dashboarding software (Tableau, Qlik, Looker), particularly Power BI (highly preferred)

• Experience working with ODK based software (Kobo, Survey CTO, MWater), particularly CommCare

• Knowledge of a programming language (VBA, Java, C), particularly R or Python

• Experience working in the humanitarian or development sectors.

• Knowledge of SQL and of machine learning

How to Apply

Interested and qualified applicants need to submit ONLY once their non - returnable application with CV for one vacancy. The vacancy reference number along with the title & Duty station need to be written in the application letter

Applicants can directly apply via THIS LINK

GOAL strongly encourages female candidates to apply!

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview and exam.

Shortlisted candidates will need to submit other supporting documents upon request at later stage.

GOAL is not able to contribute towards any costs incurred by candidates during the recruitment process.