Data Assistant at The Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA)

Data Assistant Jo b Description 

The Data Assistant will lead in engagement with adolescents, nursing mothers and pregnant women in antenatal and postnatal classes. The Data Assistant will support the programs team in crafting narratives and creating content and lead in from data collection in ensuring the key success of the project’s efforts are captured. They will also provide administrative support to the communications team, draft communications copy, prepare reports on on-field activities, and track the project’s progress in the assigned community, health care facility and schools, and ensure that data gotten from the field are accurate and in best quality. 

Job Summary

• The Data Assistant will be responsible for all data reporting-related activities of the site programs in line with reporting requirements.
• This includes implementing M&E framework, maintenance of monitoring data collections systems
• Supporting the Programme Officer, Nurses and Midwives in conducting community, schools and health care facility engagements
• He/she will also contribute to the design and assist the M&E Manager/Nurses and Midwives in data collection and entry to promote a culture of evidence-based decision making.
• Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Compile messages to post
• Responsible for providing clear pictures and reports from project activities
• Ensure correct use of M&E tools at the site and outpost and logistics of tools.
• Supporting the midwives and nurses in visits to schools, communities and health care facilities.
• Ensure data are reported according to the approved data-flow and time lines and attend to any other duties assigned
• Support nurses and midwives in data collection and analysis
• Capturing and documenting success stories from project activities, ensuring the proper documentation of project results.
• Documentation of pictures from project sites on various tools available
• Ensure all data are fed into Kobo Collect and other tools available.
• Monitor the sites’ programs in the collection, analysis, reporting and use of output data for program improvement at site level
• Develop quality contents from visits to schools, communities, health care centres and health care facilities to be posted on various social media platforms.
• Supervise site level data reporting cycle to ensure high quality and complete data are sent to the country office on a periodic basis, or when required.
• Support in community, schools and health facility engagements in mobilisation of project beneficiaries.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements, Education and Experience

• BSc Statistics, Social Sciences and Sciences
• Ability to use Kobo Collect and other tools for data collection.
• Significant experience in data entry and data management.
• Demonstrate competence in assessing priorities and in managing a variety of activities in a time-sensitive environment, and in meeting deadlines with attention to detail and quality.
• Strong writing, editing, and formatting skills.
• Demonstrate computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Kobo Collect and Google tools will be of advantage.
• Demonstrate ability and willingness to take initiative and to be flexible depending on changing priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to speak Yoruba and English