Data Quality Assessment Specialist – Syria Humanitarian Monitoring Project (SHMP III)

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International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), a U.S. based international development consulting company established in 1987, has worked in over one hundred countries and implemented over three hundred projects. IBTCI serves government agencies, private sector companies and several donor agencies. IBTCI specializes in Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) across many sectors including, but not limited to, conflict and crisis, democracy and governance, economic growth, education, environment, and global health.

Assignment Title: Data Quality Assessment Specialist – Syria Humanitarian Monitoring Project (SHMP III)

Department/Location: Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey (or remote)

Technical Point of Contact: Chief of Party (COP)

Type: Consultant

Classification: Consultancy

**Overview: IBTCI is seeking a Data Quality Assessment (DQA) Specialist to support the Syria Huminatiran Monitoring Project III (SHMP III). The Data Quality Assessment Specialist, will provide technical oversight for the design of the Data Quality Assessment deliverables an**d be responsible for carrying out the data quality assessment of BHA partners.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties/Tasks and Responsibilities:

Scope of Work:

• Lead a local team responsible for document verifications and data collection. The DQA Specialist will instruct the local team on the tasks, verifications to be completed, and data to be collected.
• Review the data collected by the local team to ensure quality and comprehensiveness to address the data quality standards.
• Serve as a point of escalation should some issues need clarification from IPs in concern. The DQA Specialist will arrange a call with the IP of concern for clarification. If there is no cooperation by the IP, the DQA Specialist is to escalate to SHMP III COP.
• Review each selected indicator against the predetermined data quality standards, perform the DQA analysis, and complete the verification against the data quality standards and the functionality of the M&E system concerning the indicators covered in the DQA exercise.
• Identify actionable recommendations to address data quality issues for each IP.
• Out of the cross-IPs analysis, identify actionable recommendations to address data quality issues to IPs and BHA.
• Prepare and summarize DQA findings into a DQA report; SHMP will provide the DQA report template.
• Other duties are required to accomplish the purpose of this assignment.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• The Data Quality Assessment Specialist should have at least eight years of experience in the humanitarian, transition, or development sectors.
• The Data Quality Assessment Specialist must haveSignificant experience conducting data quality assessments. Previous experience conducting data quality
• assessments in conflict prone areas is highly desirable. Previous experience working on Syria programs is highly desirable.

Education: The Data Quality Assessment Specialist should hold an advanced degree in social sciences, statistics, sciences or related field.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• The Data Quality Assessment Specialist should have excellent knowledge of research methodologies and the ability to converse and read the Arabic language to a professional level.
• If the Data Quality Assessment Specialist isn’t able to converse and read Arabic to a professional level, then they will need to be accompanied by a translator during their implementation of the Data Quality Assessment deliverables.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position does not have supervisory responsibilities.

Travel: International travel may be required and may include travel to fragile or conflict prone zones.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

About the Organization:

IBTCI has been in business since 1987. We specialize in Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning (MERL), Institutional Support (IS), Financial & Risk Management (FRM), Supply Chain Management & Procurement (SCMP); Social & Behavior Change (SBC) and Capacity Building. We provide these services across many sectors including, but not limited to, agriculture, resilience & food security, conflict & crisis, democracy & governance, economic growth & trade, education & human capacity development, energy & infrastructure, environment & climate change, global health & WASH and humanitarian and disaster assistance. At IBTCI, our colleagues are encouraged to collaborate and be part of the solution while getting the tools and guidance needed to grow and support our clients’ missions.

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