Data Entry Assistant

Background/IRC Summary: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war and disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

IRC has been working in Pakistan for approximately 40 years, managing and delivering large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, safeguarding, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. With the support of the federal and provincial governments, and generous donors like FCDO, ECHO, USAID, GAC and Australian Aid Agencies the IRC is currently implementing projects across the country.

Recently, IRC has launched a 5 years’ USAID’s WEE Project primarily in five selected districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with the objective to promote women’s social and economic empowerment through safe and dignified access to livelihoods opportunities, information, resources and services. The project will also facilitate NIC (National Identity Card) registration of 1.2 million women across 49 districts of Punjab, KP and Sindh in two years starting July 2020 by linking /bringing unregistered women at NADRA Registration Centers (NRCs) and facilitating Mobile Registration Vans (MRVs). Acquiring NIC will facilitate women in opening bank accounts, registering as voters, accessing credit, inheriting and owning property and accessing social protection benefits.

Job Overview/Summary: The IRC is seeking a multifaceted and self-motivated individual for the position of DEA is regular position for implementation of its NIC registration component under WEE Project. These positions are Islamabad based and responsible for data entry of activities of this project component.

Major Responsibilities:                           

• Collect Means of Verification (MoVs), verify them (both manually and through Short Message Service (SMS) service of NADRA and perform data entry.
• Coordinate with Zonal Managers to identify gaps and discrepancies in data and ensure data is entered in Management Information System (MIS) in timely manner
• Scan the relevant data and ensure it is well kept and saved
• Assist Senior Programme Managers in verification of financial claims and their processing
• Any other task assigned by the supervisor

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Data Quality officer

Position directly supervises:  None

  Position coordinates with: Zonal Managers and Information Management Team

Job Requirements:                                                                                                                                                                                         

Education Requirements:

• Bachelors in Data Sciences/IT/Management/Social Sciences

Work Experience Requirements:

• At least 2-3 years of work experience in data entry and reporting

Preferred Meaningful work experience:

• Prior experience of data management of women’s NIC registration projects Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh

Skills & Proficiencies:

• Good knowledge of English and Urdu languages
• Validated experience and track record of timely and high-quality completion of assignments.
• Flexible attitude towards receiving feedback.

Language Skills: 

• Good in English and Urdu

The IRC Core Values and Commitments;

• The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct.
• These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability.
• In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.
• IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.
• Level of interaction with children: less frequent direct contact with children
• IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission.
• As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.
• Women candidates minorities and differently abled persons are highly encouraged to apply.