BACKGROUND
With support from DFID, the IRC’s Community-Driven Reconstruction program in DRC, “Tuungane”, meaning “let’s unite” in Swahili, has been supporting approximately more than 1,000 villages in the east of the country. It seeks to empower communities to have a greater voice and control over their own development. With a budget of 160 million USD, this eight-year program aims to support 2.6 million beneficiaries to improve socio-economic conditions and increase understanding of and demand for good governance. The current program will continue until December 2015.
SCOPE
As a part of national coordination team and working closely with the Research, Monitoring and Evaluation team of the program, the CDR Database Manager will be responsible for the overall management of the Tuungane II and Tuungane II+ databases. Tuungane II has two mainly databases: one which is a large platform built in Access / Visual Basic which collects a key data in the activity, finance and construction fields; and the other that is built in Excel and has the information from the monitoring protocols. From the Tuungane II databases it is generally possible to extract information according to data needs. The CDR Database Manager will be responsible for finalizing and maintaining these databases, designing the Tuungane II + databases, managing and building the capacity of the database team, ensuring timely and quality data collection and performing data extraction and analysis at the national level.
The Database Manager will have frequent interactions with all members of the Research, Monitoring and Evaluation team for the monitoring aspects of the database, and with the National Construction Coordinator for the Finance and Construction pillars of the database. He/she will supervise directly the Database Supervisor, as well as he/she must assure the quality of data entry closely with the National Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, and reporting directly to the CDR Deputy Director and technically to the RM&E team leader (National Monitoring and Evaluation Manager).
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1 Responsible for the designing, finalization, deployment and technical maintenance of databases:
1 Providing technical supervision to a Database Supervisor to ensure the quality of data collection from all sites.
Ensuring the preparation of a national “database population report” based on sites level trackings by the database supervisor (data and narrative)
1 Ensuring data extraction and analysis at the national level:
1 Realization of any other related tasks, as requested by the CDR Deputy Director and the RME team leader.
REQUIREMENTS
SPECIFIC SECURITY SITUATION/HOUSING
This is an unaccompanied post based in Bukavu, South Kivu, with frequent travel to other program sites. Comfortable and secure shared housing is provided by IRC. The current security situation in Eastern DR Congo is unpredictable and complex, but all possible measures are taken by IRC to ensure staff safety and security.