Organization: Catholic Relief Services
Catholic Relief Services
Europe/Middle East and Central Asia Region
JOB DESCRIPTION
Position Title: Data Verification Assistant – Education Grants
Department: Basic Education Project
Compensation Band: Band 4
Reports to: Project Officer – Education Grants
Country/Location: Egypt – Maadi Office
Background
The CRS Egypt country program began in 1956 at the invitation of the Egyptian president Nasser by providing relief assistance to the victims of the Suez War. Over the following few decades, CRS Egypt moved from large-scale food relief to long-term poverty alleviation and development programs. CRS Egypt works in a wide variety of areas within the development field.
Currently, CRS Egypt has three main programs: the livelihoods program, interfaith peacebuilding program and the education assistance program for refugees. Projects under these programs range from the provision of technical assistance and capacity building to partners, and promoting peace and tolerance, to educational grants for refugees, and the protection of children who are victims of trafficking. Additional programming includes Emergency Preparedness and Response projects that arise as need be. A regional Management Quality unit assists the country program support department in developing and maintaining the highest level of operations standards.
CRS Egypt currently holds a main office in Cairo, and a sub-office in Maadi.
As part of education program, the basic education project supports over 30,000 refugees and asylum seekers children with access to education through a financial grant program and improves the quality of education received by students through a variety of non-formal educational activities and initiatives to improve the learning environment of students. These two components of the annual program require a substantial full-time staff as well as volunteers who assist in project implementation periodically throughout the year.
Job Summary:
You will provide service in the day-to-day delivery of responsive, effective and efficient project activities in support of the Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) mission to serve the poor and vulnerable. You will provide consistent and high-quality service and contribute to the proper stewardship of project resources to help ensure operational effectiveness in support of high-quality programming.
In the same way, the Data Verification Assistant for Education Grants, under the supervision of the Project Officer for Education Grants, will handle all the data verification work of the cash distribution ensuring compliance with donor and CRS requirements. Also, the candidate will proceed with all the transactional payments involved in the cash disbursement process.
Job Responsibilities:
· Review refugees’ documents and payments of education grants using the project database. Serve as an independent reviewer of all data entry and report on errors, inconsistencies, and areas for improvement.
· Assist in developing a weekly list of grant beneficiaries and amounts to be paid. Ensure the proper review, verification, and signatures and others are present for approval.
· Prepare transactional documents in support of project implementation and support and facilitate coordination of transaction processing.
· Compile data, perform data entry and data verification in relation to project implementation.
· Assist in maintaining a centralized clean database of project beneficiaries for the project team.
· Update the Education Program database on regular basis with relevant field data.
· Assist in reports development based on the verified data collected.
Typical Background, Experience & Requirements:
Education and Experience
· Bachelor degree is required in a related field.
· Two years experience working in an office environment in a clerical or administrative role. Experience with a local or international NGO a plus.
· Additional education may substitute for some experience.
· Experience with word processing, data entry into online databases and forms, and working with various office equipment.
· Experience in MS Office package (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio) and information management systems. Proficient in Word.
Personal Skills
· Good time management skills with ability to work on multiple tasks
· Strong customer service orientation with good communication and interpersonal skills
· Proactive, resourceful, solutions oriented and results-oriented
Required/Desired Foreign Language: Excellent command in English and Arabic.
Travel Required: Job requires travel to field (defined as outside of Cairo metropolitan area), Upper and Lower Egypt, to implement and assist partners and follow up projects (approximately 20%). More frequent travel required to sites within Cairo metropolitan area.
Key Working Relationships:
Supervisory: None
Internal: All education team members, Education Program Administration Team, and CRS support functions (finance, procurement, IT, HR and Admin).
External: Community Members (refugees/asylum seekers and host communities), Ministry of Education in Egypt, donor Implementing Partners.
Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff):
These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.
· Trusting Relationships
· Professional Growth
· Partnership
· Accountability
Disclaimer: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.
CRS’ talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.
Equal Opportunity Employer