Data Modeling Specialist

Organization

iMMAP is an international nongovernmental organisation that provides information management services to humanitarian and development organizations. Through information management, we help our partners target assistance to the world’s most vulnerable populations. Our core philosophy is that better data leads to better decisions and that better decisions lead to better outcomes. iMMAP’s critical support to information value chains helps to solve operational and strategic challenges of our partners in both emergency and development contexts by enabling evidence-based decision-making for better outcomes.

Background

The data modelling analyst will support iMMAP country program with the development of IM frameworks and tools to process information from various clusters.

Description of Duties

• Key Responsibilities and Tasks:
• Determining business requirements and responsible for creating completely new databases.
• Developing database architecture for various humanitarian clusters in Ukraine.
• Programming database algorithms.
• Analyzing data sets and look for trends to improve database operations and provide insights about how to best use the existing data.
• Optimizing database efficiency.
• Automating database tasks.
• Identifying relevant data sources for business needs.
• Collecting structured and unstructured data.
• Sourcing missing data.
• Organizing data into usable formats.
• Building predictive models.
• Building machine learning algorithms.
• Enhancing the data collection process.
• Processing, cleansing & verifying of data.

• Analyzing data for trends and patterns and finding answers to specific questions.

• Operational

• Compilation and processing of information on the flows and sectoral needs.

• Prepare relevant data analysis

• Identify and manage information exchange flows with key organisations or institutions that provide context information

Requirements

• Education
• Bachelor’s degree in economics, statistics, political science, social sciences and other similar areas
• Experience
• Background in the construction of information exchange agreements
• A minimum of 5 years of work experience, experience with the United Nations system and humanitarian work is desirable.
• Soft skills
• Excellent analytical capacity and clear writing
• Effective communication skills to work among clusters, agencies and the government
• Training capabilities to teach partners how to use the necessary tools
• Good organizational skills to deliver products on time and with quality
• Programmes
• **Strong knowledge of and experience in using HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript framework to develop interactive and responsive interfaces for use across platforms, devices, and browsers.
• Proficient with JavaScript frameworks such as VueJS, React, Angular.
• Familiar with UI layouts, SASS, Bootstrap, and the CSS GRID system
• One or more years of professional work experience in PHP/Laravel web programming, including inter-connectivity with external databases.
• Experience with build system such as Grunt, Webpack and etc.
• Experience with GitHub or related source code version management systems
• Experience with AJAX, JSON, REST
• Experience with databases such as mysql, postgresql, and mongo db.
• Experience with Data Visualization Tool such as D3.js, amcharts and etc.

Guiding Principles

Personnel is expected to conduct itself in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and iMMAP’s policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all Countries.

iMMAP has zero-tolerance for sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, human trafficking, child abuse and exploitation. Any violations of these principles and policies will be treated as serious misconduct.

iMMAP is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of background.

DISCLAIMER: Note that due to the urgency of this position, application will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the position may be filled before the recruitment closing date.