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| Data Entry Officer (Local) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Balkh, Farah, Faryab, Herat, |
| Categories | Program, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2024-03-14 | Close Date | 2024-03-20 |
| Vacancy No | VA-2024-06 | Gender | Male |
| No Of Jobs | 11 | Contract Duration | 16 months |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree | Experience | 5 years |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | |
About Company
About Afghanaid: Afghanaid is a British humanitarian and development NGO established in 1983. It is headquartered in Kabul and is currently working in four provinces: Badakhshan, Samangan, Ghor, and Daykundi. We also work through partners in nine others: Herat, Faryab, Jawzjan, Sar-i-Pul, Balkh, Bamyan, Takhar, Khost and Paktia. For 4 decades, Afghanaid has developed its thematic expertise and the capacity of its staff in correspondence with the evolving needs of the country, international best practice, and opportunities for innovation. Our work supports four pillars of sustainable development: providing basic services; strengthening sustainable livelihoods and food security; adapting to climate change and reducing disaster risk, and emergency humanitarian assistance. Three guiding principles are mainstreamed in all our work to ensure its contribution to sustainable development: gender and inclusion, good governance and community development, and conflict mitigation and peacebuilding.
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Data entry from hard copies or scanned documents into the MIS
- Checking entered data for errors and consistency with the original documents
- Preparing compiled data sets as required.
- Scanning and uploading original documents into the MIS as needed.
- Updating existing data of MIS;
- Sort and organize paperwork after entering data to ensure it is not lost;
- Keep information confidential and comply with data integrity and security policies;
- Ensure proper use of office equipment and address any malfunctions;
- The Data Entry Officers will be responsible for entering data into the MIS System and will primarily focus on accurately inputting and managing data within MIS databases. Additionally, they will compile and verify the accuracy of data, sorting it according to the priorities of the CRL project.
- Other duties as assigned
Job Requirement
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Education & Professional Qualification
At least Bachelor Grade with two-year relevant work experience
Work Experience
5 years’ Work experience in data entry
Professional Skills, Competencies, Values and Attitudes
Afghanaid seeks a responsible and dependable with strong initiative, judgment and adaptability as well as excellent skills in communication, organisational, interpersonal relations, decision-making and reporting.
Specifically, the holder of this position should also demonstrate the following:
Key Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Fluency in written English and demonstrated ability to write and lay out high-quality documents,
- Knowledge of Dari and Pashtu is compulsory.
- Excellent conceptual and analytical skills able to distil key ideas with clarity and precision.
- Strong organizational and coordination skills, able to work with significant levels of autonomy, manage personal priorities and meet tight deadlines.
- Resilience to live, travel and work in isolated and possibly insecure locations.
- Flexible and dynamic with the ability to deal with difficult, often ambiguous and challenging situations and creatively solve problems.
- Clear and firm commitment to the rights, equality, role and empowerment of women, minorities and persons with disabilities.
Desirable
Previous work experience in the same positon with INGOs
Other Information
Afghanaid’s core values are creativity, fairness and honesty. Our staff are passionate about and proud of their work. Teamwork is fundamental to our standards and is demonstrated by taking initiative, assisting others and taking on additional responsibilities / tasks if necessary. We are results driven, committed and motivated to achieve targets and take accountability for our own actions.
Our remuneration and benefits package is competitive with other similar organisations. This position presents an excellent opportunity for someone who has the ambition and determination to move up in their career.
Submission Guideline
Please submit your application by filling the Afghanaid standard job application form and email a completed application form, covering letter and your CV, by no later than Wednesday 20th March 2024 to vacancies@afghanaid.org.uk ; including your name, vacancy number and the job title in the subject line. Your covering letter should be no more than 1 standard A4 page in length and explain how you meet the essential and desirable position requirements and why you feel you would be a suitable candidate for this role. Your CV should be no more than 4 pages and include 3 professional references including your current employer. The precision and style with which you present yourself in your covering letter and CV will be given significant weight in short listing candidates. Application with no proper subject (requested above), without the application form or submitted after the deadline will not be considered. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to every application. If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the deadline, then you have not been successful for shortlisting.
Please note that applying without filling the standard job application form will result in disqualifying the applications to review for shortlisting.
Link for the Afghanaid Standard Job Application form: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1vLmMCTTa7peZ-8Odm-L4xm_5ULr6nvRG
Note: Only local candidates within the same District & Province should apply.