VGIF Data Management & MRV Officer

Background of the Organization

Vita/RTI-Ethiopia is an Irish non-profit registered organization in Ethiopia since year 2005 and engaged in support of development program by implementing food security, agriculture, livelihood, climate change projects through application of community-led approach. All ongoing projects are being implemented in Southern Ethiopia, Southwestern Ethiopia, Central Ethiopia, Sidama, Amhara, and Oromia Regions of Ethiopia. 

Vita Green Impact Fund- VGIF

Vita is Currently implementing a new Vita Green Impact Fund Program for creating safe and clean water access, alternative cooking energy and forestry through community led approach. It is implementing a new program in different regions which aims to greatly increase household adoption of fuel-efficient cook stoves by using a new Community-Led Total Stove (CLTS) approach with the goal of eliminating the use of traditional three-stone (Sost Gulicha) stoves by mobilizing 100% of households in the program area to adopt fuel-efficient stoves. This program is also aimed to provide safe and clean water for at least 750,000 people residing in 13 woredas of South Gonder zone by repairing a minimum of 1500 broken water points through Community-Lead Total Water approach. This will contribute to the delivery of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with a particular focus on SDGs 3, 5, 6 and 7 relating to improved health and gender equality as well as access to water and energy to deliver climate mitigation outcomes. 

Job summary  

As a key part of the VGIF team in Ethiopia to provide assistance to the project team in support of Data Management, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Carbon activities. The high-caliber candidate selected for this position will provide support to development of data management and MRV system for carbon finance projects that can capture both operational and carbon related data in the most effective manner and provides timely/appropriate reports.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist with the development and maintenance of VGIF data management system. 
• Provide support on data management activities i.e. collecting, organizing, protecting, storing, Analyzing, and sharing of data.
• Works closely with data and MRV Manager to oversee the entire data processing operation in a way that ensures the accuracy and efficiency of data management system.
• Assist in the development of survey forms, templates and guidelines for data collection and analysis, if requested.
• Regularly perform data quality reviews and appropriately identify all issues as necessary.
• Ensure data availability and quality by regularly entering data into a computer database and performing a detail data cleaning.
• Extract information from VGIF database to prepare a regular report for Vita management, Communication requirements, and other relevant stakeholders’ consumption. 
• Contribute to capacity building training, couching, and assisting technical staff on data management, climate finance and voluntary carbon market methodology in general and Gold Standard requirements in particular. 
• Work closely with field staff on conducting surveys, monitoring, and any other field activities to complement gold standard requirement. May be required to undertake field trips to project sites.
• Perform other duties reasonably related to the position as directed by the supervisor.

Career Level: 5+ years’ experience

Employment Type: Full time

Terms of Employment: One-year contract with high possibility of extension based on performance 

Salary: Negotiable    

Required: One 

Educational Qualification

• BSc degree /MSc degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.

Required Skills and Experience

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in data management and MRV works.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Applications; especially highly skillful with Excel as a data processing tool to implement excel database functions with complex criteria.
• Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources.
• Experience of using Kobo Toolbox to develop data collection templates and to manage data on the server.
• Familiar with relational database language and tools such as SQL Server and Excel Macro, VBA programming etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Amharic and English.
• Passionate about field work.

How To Apply

Interested applicant can apply either online using the link Click here to apply or in person at Vita/RTI Ethiopia Country office located besides Dimitri Hotel along the road from Salite Mehiret square to Wossen, Gurd Shola within 10 consecutive days from the day of this announcement.

N.B Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.