وظيفة شاغرة: مطلوب Data Collection Assistant للعمل مع شركة كيمونكس انترناشونال

BACKGROUND

The Lebanon Agriculture and Rural Empowerment (ARE) activity, funded by USAID and implemented by Chemonics International, supports Lebanese rural and peri-urban communities to obtain technical and financial resources in order to facilitate increased productivity, sales, and exports, improved business income, while also ensuring livelihood sustainability. To support this purpose, ARE will increase jobs; improve incomes; improve female participation and employment opportunities; increase domestic and export sales; increase private sector investment; improve access to finance; link value chain actors to domestic and international markets; and improve production through improved practices, technology, increased volume, and/or decreased cost. ARE supports two key expected results:

1. Increased domestic and export sales at both firm and farm levels.
2. Livelihoods improved, especially in rural areas and for women.

Based on market systems development theory, ARE adopts a facilitative approach to incentivize priority value chain and sub-sector stakeholders to take advantage of new and emerging opportunities and increase potential sales growth, both internationally and domestically. To this end, ARE identifies and partners with “Champion Firms,” which serve as anchors with whom ARE can work to leverage opportunities or address challenges within supported value chains. In collaboration with Champion Firms, ARE co-created a Partnership Framework Agreement (PFA) that guides the implementation of joint interventions that support actors throughout the entire value chain to unlock opportunities and create the underpinnings for new growth at the farm, firm, value chain, and sub-sector levels.

ARE targets several value chains, including fresh and processed produce, dairy and fodder, stone fruits, and table grapes. In particular, ARE promotes partnerships with Champion Firms that have the potential to address food insecurity and support livelihoods. The partnerships aim to promote import substitution, reduce production and processing costs, and ensure job creation or retention to increased or maintain household incomes.

Beyond the support to Champion Firms and priority value chains, ARE also responds to urgent needs and opportunities to generate an impact at the broader sectoral level. Strategic interventions include hybrid vegetable seed and seedling distributions, greenhouse upgrades, nursery upgrades, promotion of renewable energy and energy efficiency for agriculture and food production. Other interventions include support to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to ensure their resilience and sustainable operations and issuing grants to promote innovation, upgrade technology, and support start-up ecosystems.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Data Collection Assistant is a member of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team, under the direct supervision of the Data Management Specialist. The Data Collection Assistant will assist in the collection and storage of accurate ongoing project monitoring and evaluation data related to one of ARE’s two main grant portfolios: The Champion Firm Value Chain Development (CFVCD) portfolio and Strategic Innovation, Technology, and Sector Development (SITSD), file maintenance, and quantitative and qualitative data analysis. The assistant will assist the Data Management specialist in collecting routine data from partners/beneficiaries, cleaning and validating this data, in coordination with the MEL assistant.  The assistant will also ensure that data collected meets the data quality standards within ARE MEL system.

DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES

• Organize the collection of data based on guidance received from the Data Management Specialist, in accordance with the project’s MEL Plan;
• Contribute to data quality and integrity by conducting remote spot checks to verify data and investigate data anomalies;
• Compile relevant data on project indicators for contractual reports;
• Maintain, and share databases and spreadsheets as well as formats for reporting information on project activities and deliverables;
• Manage data entry in ARE’s data management system and ensure that dashboard information is regularly updated and shared with ARE senior management;
• Support in collecting quantitative data for quarterly reports
• Work with project technical staff to collect relevant data from counterpart institutions, and when necessary, provide technical support to project subcontractors, clients, and grantees to help them to develop monitoring, evaluation and reporting skills as necessary;
• Maintain the project database while ensuring accuracy and timeliness of MEL data;
• Perform other tasks as assigned by the Data Management Specialist to ensure overall effective implementation of program activities.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (with statistics background); Business Administration, Economics, Public Health, Social Science or similar
• Up to two years of experience in data collection, indicator tracking, impact evaluations, and other monitoring and evaluation processes to determine and measure outputs of projects and their affect on selected communities;
• Knowledge of USAID or other donor-funded monitoring, evaluation, and learning standards and regulations strongly preferred;
• Experience using M&E data analysis and tracking systems, particularly Microsoft Excel; experience in Power BI is a plus
• Strong written and oral communication skills; experience with report writing preferred;
• Fluent spoken and written Arabic, and proficient spoken and written English;

LOCATION OF ASSIGNMENT

The Data Collection Assistant will be based in the project’s main office in Beirut, Lebanon, and travel throughout the country as needed.

REPORTING

The Data Collection Assistant will report to the Data Management Specialist or is/her designee.