Contract
Description
Position Description
USAID SCALING UP NUTRITION TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (SUN TA)
Temporary Data Entry Clerks
DAI works at the cutting edge of international development, combining technical excellence, professional project management, and exceptional customer service to solve our clients’ most complex problems. Since 1970, DAI has worked in 150 developing and transition countries, providing comprehensive development solutions in areas including crisis mitigation and stability operations, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS, avian influenza control, water and natural resources management, and energy and climate change. Clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and host-country governments.
1. Project Background:
The Scaling Up Nutrition Program is a cross-ministry and multi-donor program to reduce stunting in Zambia through implementation of the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) 1,000 Most Critical Days Program.
SUN TA will provide support and direct technical assistance to sub-national local government departments in target districts to plan, implement, coordinate, and monitor integrated nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific activities to reduce the rate of stunting among Zambian children under two and improve the nutritional status of pregnant and lactating mothers. USAID has identified two main objectives that address stunting, including (1) Adequate Quantity and Quality of Dietary Intake among Target Groups; and (2) Adequate Health Conditions for Biological Utilization of Nutrients. SUN TA interventions will increase access and availability of safe, diverse, nutritious food; adoption of better child feeding and household hygiene practices; and access to improved health, water and sanitation services. The project will prioritize sustainability by improving intra-household joint decision making and building the capacity of local government and their stakeholders to ensure coordination, accountability, and learning, following the Scaling Up Nutrition model.
2. Location: Lusaka, Zambia
3. Objective:
The Temporary Data Entry Clerks will be responsible to transfer household target beneficiary data from paper household registration forms into the online database. The task requires that the ideal candidates is computer savvy with a keen eye for detail. This is key to ensuring that accurate and updated data are easily accessible through a digital database.
4. Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Enter household data from paper formats into the online database system
- Check for missing data
- Sort and organize paperwork after entering data to ensure the original forms are retained for verification and reference purposes
5. Reporting and Supervision:
- The Temporary Data Entry Clerks will report directly to the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Expert.
6. Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Proven experience as data entry clerk
- Fast typing skills; Knowledge of touch-typing system is strongly preferred
- Working knowledge of office equipment and computer hardware and peripheral devices
- Experience working with electronic databases
- Good command of English both oral and written
- Great attention to detail
- Understanding of data confidentiality principles is compulsory
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