DACAAR is a non governmental, humanitarian organization that supports sustainable development in Afghanistan through promoting the ability of local communities to decide upon and manage their own development process. The organisation employs around 900 staff of whom 5 are expatriates. Core thematic areas are: Water, Sanitation & Hygiene; Natural Resource Management; Small Scale Enterprise Development; Women’s Empowerment.

Position Description:

The major task of the Database Officer is to prepare a database and do on-time reporting of all project entries and data, provide technical support to carry out surveys and assessments through SMART phone technology, and clean the data received from the field in the KOBO toolbox and update AKF/PIU MIS.

Responsibilities:

• Assure the quality of data submitted online in the KOBO toolbox by the field team and identify where mistakes have been made to clean data.
• Good analytical skills and extensive knowledge and verifiable experience in the creation, maintenance (including entering data on online databases), and management of databases.
• Identify missing data or odd information and follow up with field staff to rectify it.
• The database officer should assist the AKF/PIU team in adding or removing questions in the HEAT tool, HEAT tool configuration, data downloading, and other tasks related to the database, KOBO, and HEAT tool.
• Installation and configuration of KoBo, application in SMART phone and retrieve data from KoBo and Encourage field staff to use Tablet to record needs assessment information.
•  Consult with field staff regarding the confusion or improvement needs on the existing HEAT form and provide feedback to the WERP Project Manager.
•  Create a chart, table, graph, and map visualizations to effectively communicate data insights.
• Collect the data and prepare weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarter, and annual reports to AKF/PIU based on the database and submit to the WERP Project Manager or AKF/ PIU.
• Assist the Project Manager in preparing purchase orders, checking and compiling project packages, following the packages with relevant departments based on approved projects, and following up to get approvals and items on time.
• Provide administrative and logistical support.
• Follow up project-required reports with the field team to complete the packages.
• Conduct periodic monitoring of DACAAR warehouse inventory prepared by the field-level logistic staff.
•  Coordinate with DACAAR M&E Unit to maintain a database of updated Post Distribution Monitoring reports.
• Supervise, manage, and preserve monitoring and evaluation data in a safe and accessible way
• Keep and update monthly and annual base stock records and reports.
• Establish, and maintain effective cooperation & coordination mechanism between members of the AKF/PIU, Field Staff and M.O. to interact and communicate regularly with each other.
• Assisting in generating reports weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, and annual progress on all project activities to the Project Manager on an as-needed basis.
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Develop and implement proper backup, restore, data validation, and security procedures to ensure data integrity and availability.
• Preparing database and keeping records of all sub-projects related data (Project information, physical progress, financial progress, etc…).
• Regularly updating MIS of the AKF/PIU, and other related systems.
• The holder of this position must strictly follow the organization's existing security policies, procedures, and daily instructions of the safety personnel.
• Any other activities as directed by the WERP Manager.

Education/ Qualification and Employment Benefits 

Education: Bachelor of Computer Science is required but, Master degree in relevant field is preferred.

Experience: The candidate must have minimum of five (5) years of proven experience in relevant field.

Other qualifications’ an advantage:

• Ability in team working and Management skills
• Ability to effectively use Kobo Toolbox, MIS and HEAT tools
• Having skills of effective communication 
• Ability to prioritize tasks effectively,

Languages: Pashto/Dari & English Fluency in (Written & Spoken) is required.

Employment benefits:

• Good training opportunities to enhance employees’ skills
• Severance pay: one-month salary per year of service
• 24 days of paid annual leave per year
• 10 days of paid sick leave per year
• 2 days’ weekend
• Eid bonus on both Eids (after the completion of three-month service)
• 30 days of paid Hajj leave (after the completion of one-year service)
• 90 days of paid maternity leave for female employees (after the completion of three-month service)
• 5 days of paid paternity leave for male employees (after the completion of three-month service)
• Public holidays (According to the approved public holiday’s list).
• Pick and drop Allowance AFN (2000/month)

Procedure for submission of applications:                                                                                     

Interested and qualified candidates should submit a DACAAR UPDATED Job Application Form along with introduction letter and CV online to jobs@dacaar.org or a Hard copy to HR Department in DACAAR main office Kabul.

Important Note:

• Applications without DACAAR’s UPDATED Job Application Form will not be considered.
• Application without Vacancy Number will not be considered.
• UPDATED DACAAR job application form can be obtained from; DACAAR website www.dacaar.org/, acbar website www.acbar.org/; jobs.af websites, and DACAAR Main Office kabul.
• Applications submitted as .RAR file or if the size exceeds 2MB, will not be accepted by the system
• Only Short-listed candidates will be contacted and called for the written test/ interview.
• The salary would be paid in AFN according to the actual exchange rate.

DACAAR is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all sections of the society. While all applicants will be strictly assessed on their individual merit, qualified women, people with disabilities and members of minority communities are especially encouraged to apply.

Kabul Office Address:
DACAAR, Main Office, Paikob-e-Naswar, Wazirabad, Kabul, Afghanistan

Postal address: Central P.O. Box 208, Kabul, Afghanistan
Phone: (+93) 0202230752/ (+93) 0202230753
E-mail: jobs@dacaar.org
Web site: www.dacaar.org