Organization Background :
Collateral Repair Project, founded in 2006 to support refugees and impoverished Jordanians in
East Amman, runs emergency assistance programs and vibrant community centers in Hashemi
Shamali and downtown Amman. The people CRP serves struggle to take care of their basic
needs and to rebuild their lives.
CRP’s holistic approach focuses on positive growth and change. We first provide families with emergency assistance and then offer them educational, community building and psychosocial activities through our Family Resource and Community Center. CRP’s programs include computer classes, English lessons, trauma-sensitive yoga, a men’s support group, women’s empowerment workshops, children’s activities, and art workshops. Volunteers from Jordan and abroad run all of the programming at CRP, with many programs led by refugees from CRP’s community. We prioritize hiring staff who are creative problem solvers, hard workers, and actively take initiative to develop our programs and move our work to the forefront of
best practice.
Position Description:
The Data Officer will serve as Collateral Repair Project’s (CRP) Data Engineering Specialist. S/he will work with a suite of software to compile data around beneficiaries, donors, finance and more. S/he will direct initiatives to streamline current processes and deepen CRP’s understanding and use of data.
Additionally, s/he will interface with CRP’s leadership team, Board of Directors and fundraisers to provide information and metrics that are needed for reporting and/or fundraising purposes. This includes constructing models and using data in order to measure the impact of CRP’s various programs on the lives and well-being of our beneficiaries. The successful applicant will have strong English language skills and be able to comfortably communicate in English. Collateral Repair Project is an Arabic and English language environment.
S/He will also be responsible for managing all of Collateral Repair Project’s data collection activities, reporting, and building processes, apps, and surveys that are used to collect and store data.
S/He will additionally actively manage interns and coders, supervise their work, and motivate and guide them.
It is vital for candidates to be organized, familiar with the technologies used, and able to articulate and drive a strategic vision for growing a donor base. Strong coding and communication skills are required.
The Data Officer is responsible for activities including, but not limited to :
● Managing Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) processes to take collected data and both structure and store it.
● Building applications with Django, the famous Python framework.
● Designing data collection techniques and processes to improve our data collection and beneficiary management processes.
● Build reports using data analytics tools & software (i.e. Excel, Google Sheets, Python, Tableau) for internal stakeholders and management.
● Spearheading the ongoing effort to clean up our data.
● Supporting local staff with their data needs.
● Automate repetitive tasks and processes to increase CRP’s operational efficiency.
● Administer CRP database and other software suites(i.e. Zapier, QuestionPro)
* Salary is to be determined, based on experience, but the anticipated range is
JD 600 – JD 750 per month before deductions for tax and social security.
This vacancy is archived.