Junior Data consultant at SNV Netherlands Development Organisation

Assignment description

The overall objective of this assignment is to support collection, analysis, use and dissemination of the information from the field that enables the tracking of progress in response to climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts implemented by the CRAFT project in partnership with business champions. To achieve this the data consultant will:

• To conduct the analysis and validation of data recorded by CRAFT partners in the M&E database.
• Support data cleaning and collation of farmer databases as submitted by business champion(s) into the CRAFT provided farmer group and farmer upload templates.
• Support the recording of data into the M&E database based on records of farmer groups, training, and service provision as provided by the CRAFT partners.
• Contribute to the improvement of data quality collected by the CRAFT project through carrying data checks on the MIS database.
• Support the agronomy team to review and confirm that all planned CSA trainings have been completed and recorded in the CRAFT MIS.

Deliverables

• Ensuring that farmer registers and farmer group list that are complete, without duplicates and validate on M&E database
• Training and service provision records that are complete, without duplicates and validated on the M&E database.
• Making recommendation on/about database entries that require to be deleted for being incorrect, inaccurate and wrongly reported.

Qualifications

• At least a Bachelor’s degree in any field in agriculture /climate related / business / statistics or social sciences
• Demonstrate at least 2 years’ experience in carrying out a similar assignment on data recording, validation and analysis.
• Intermediate /advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel) for data cleaning and analysis (this will be tested)
• Knowledge on use of mobile based data collection tools ODK, Kobo collect is be preferred.

Additional Information

Supervision and reporting

The data consultant will work under the supervision of the M&E Advisor, at CRAFT project level and while providing services directly to the agronomy team. The consultant may from time to time be required to support other project team members with data entry and analysis.

Duration

• The assignment will be for an initial period of 3 months from 1 April 2022 to 30 June 2022.

Duty Station

The data consultant(s) will be station at the CRAFT project office in Nairobi. Where deemed necessary the consultants will be required to travel to the CRAFT partner offices to offer on-site support. For all travel out of the CRAFT project office, the project will cater for the costs as per SNV policies and procedures.