Readvertisement – WASH Data Assistant – Azaz

General Description of the Programme:

GOAL has been working in Syria since 2013, responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL is working in Idleb Governate, both through direct implementation and through partners, delivering food, non-food programming to highly vulnerable populations, and provision of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) through support to Water units, as well as emergency support to recently displaced households.

GOAL has been working in North Aleppo Governate since 2019, through direct implementation and through partners, delivering food, non-food programming to highly vulnerable populations, as well as emergency support for recently displaced household.

Job purpose:

The WASH Data Assistant will be based in GOAL’s office in Azaz supporting WASH PM, WASH engineers and Wash data Officer with Data collection, conducting field periodic inspections, Documentation, and reporting. S/he will work in close coordination Syria-based GOAL engineers and the Water Units.

The WASH Data Assistant’s main responsibility is to ensure that all required data related to WASH activities are collected and properly documented. This will involve working closely with the WASH engineers/Water Units. It will also involve periodic visits to all pumping station beyond WASH programme area of operation to fill inspection check lists and documents. This will require a high-level knowledge of pumping stations’ equipment and water systems.

Duties, objectives, and competencies

• Support WASH engineers by ensuring data entry and cleaning is conducted on a regular basis, conducting analysis on data and presenting finding from data for internal and external Online reports.
• Ensuring data collection tools are fit for purpose and providing revisions when necessary.
• Ensure accurate and up-to-date information is maintained for WASH activities and that data generated through field activities is updated on a daily basis on centralized records and stored on the server.
• Periodically travel to all water pumping stations in WASH program’s Area for collecting water stations’ operational data.
• Preparing and sorting WASH activities and project documents.
• Assisting Wash Data Officer in data entry.
• Administrating the WASH MIS in coordination with the field teams and WASH Antakya Officer,
• Provide timely assistance and feedback to field teams on data issues and perform remedial action to address any data collection, entry and cleaning issues on the WASH Database.
• Under the supervision of the WASH Manager in Azaz, work with WASH team, to ensure accurate beneficiary data is entered, stored and updated as required. This will include ensuring accurate disaggregation of beneficiary data, in line with GOAL and donor requirements.
• Ensure regular and consistent updating of WASH beneficiary and assistance delivery via appropriate reporting software/platform through SQL and Power Bi.
• Generate summary statistics, and rapid and initial analysis and findings from WASH program SQL databases, M&E datasets and/or other sources of data to support data requests from WASH program and Grants teams.
• Support the NA WASH team in administrative tasks, such as following timesheets for Water and Hygiene Units, and entering information in GOALs monitoring databases.
• Any other duties required by Wash project manager.

Requirements (essential)

• Institute degree as minimum.
• Excellent knowledge of computer applications including Excel, power Bi, KOBO, Commcare.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience with NGOs.
• Familiarity with digital data gathering platforms and Microsoft apps.
• Basic understanding of M&E principles, methodologies, data collection, analysis and interpretation.
• Basic understanding of grant reporting for humanitarian donors.
• Experience in documenting, extracting, and displaying data for various stations or camp sessions.
• Good English language skills.
• Ability to coordinate multiple tasks and deal with multiple demands in an efficient
• 1 years’ experience in dealing with water stations staff, beneficiary communities or camps.
• Strong documentation skills.

Requirements (desired)

• Effective communication skills.
• NGO experience in a humanitarian setting, especially WASH experience.
• Good understanding of water (especially water networks), sanitation and/ or solid waste management in the Syrian context.
• Fluency in Arabic.