Graduate Data Entry Officers (Only for Nigerian Nationals) at Save the Children Nigeria

Save the Children International is a 'dual mandate' organisation and as such equal priority will be given to both humanitarian and development work. This is the only way we will be able to ensure that some of the fundamental rights that we believe children have, such as survival, safety and constant access to protection and education can be guaranteed. As part of a commitment to work with children through humanitarian interventions Save the Children will support programmes in both sudden onset and chronic emergency situations.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Data Entry Officer (Only for Nigerian Nationals)

Job ID: #974316
Location: Maiduguri
Reports to: Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator

Job Description
Child Safeguarding:

• Level 3- The responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children or young people and, in the overseas context all posts are considered to be level 3 posts in view of potential situations which may allow staff unsupervised access to vulnerable children and young people.

Role Purpose

• Verify and enter programme data

Key Areas of Accountabilities
Objective 1: Support collection of reports and quality checks

• Collection and collation of weekly and monthly reports from the field staff
• Verify reports are correct (totals and coherence)
• Ensure data quality assessments
• Preparation of reports
• Support field supervision as per request
• Elaborate data collection materials for the activities
• Plan logistics and materials needs for the activities to be carried out

Objective 2: Enter data from field reports

• Enter data collected in excel templates used
• Check data is correctly entered and coherent in the different templates used

Objective 3: Support management of sub base office

• Support general office administration services including document filling systems stationery stock management and maintenance of SC resource centre
• Support office communications including correspondence exchanges
• Manage staff log-in registers
• Manage office assets in collaboration with logistics

Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• Accuracy and timeliness in all areas of responsibility
• High level of accuracy in work, and ability to analyse complex sets of relationships and situations
• Holds self and others accountable

Ambition:

• Creating best-in-class EA function
• Future-orientated, thinks pro-actively

Collaboration:

• Working effectively with stakeholders to achieve common goals
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Designing more effective admin systems
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

Qualifications

• At least 1 year of professional experience
• Minimum of B.Sc qualifications
• Computer literacy (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint) with ability to work with data bases and statistical software packages
• Fluency in English, spoken and written
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to work within a team setting
• Independence, adaptability and flexibility
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable:

• Previous experience with other local and international NGOs
• Fluency in Hausa

Application Closing Date
10th May 2015.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's and covering letter explaining why you are suitable to: [email protected] State position clearly in the subject field as applications without appropriate subject will be disqualified. Also, applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.