The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian organization that works to protect and assist people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence. To find out more about ICRC mission and its activities visit www.icrc.org

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is currently seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Data Management Specialist. The Assistance Data Management Specialist will be a member of the Assistance Division Data Management team, which provides field operations with strategic support and professional expertise in 4 key areas: Economic Security, Health Care Services, Water & Habitat and Weapon Contamination.

The Belgrade Shared Services Centre is looking for suitable candidates to fill the following position: Data Management Specialist

(location: Belgrade, Serbia)

MAIN TASKS:

Data Quality

• Monitors and validates complex data to be coherent with a portfolio of data sources and regular narrative reports of the field offices globally, particularly for institutional reporting
• Consolidates, structures and enriches field data in collaboration with the field offices, business process owners and heads of programs at headquarters
• Ensures the coherence and harmonization of data to policies and guidelines, aligns the data model to referential data and monitors the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of data, along with corrective actions for data issues and escalations (according to the established support model and processes)
• Maintains and enhances the knowledge base, referencing guidelines and documentations by improving data quality tools and processes based on trends, analysis of incidents and automation, where appropriate
• Provides support to ETL user-acceptance testing and ensures continuity and smooth transition of data, reports and dashboards through updates or changes to the system sources

Data Analysis

• Creates high quality, actionable strategic reports and analyses on a recurring and ad hoc basis using internal and external data
• Assists the division in reflecting on performance measures, management concerns, improvements in the various functional areas of expertise and the institutional strategy
• Contributes to the reporting and analysis on the performance and quality of the programs for leadership decision-making, support of daily activities and institutional reporting
• Supports the life-cycle of dashboarding objects (validation, publication, maintenance, change requests, deletion); dashboarding Content Catalogue as well as contributes to best practices, standards, guidelines and templates for data and analytics (ensuring compliance with these, and, working on their continuous improvement)
• Ensures efficient and adequate coordination with the team

REQUIRED PROFILE

• Advanced university degree in statistics, mathematics, finance, economics, engineering, the sciences or a similar technical field along with 6 to 9 years of practical, hands-on experience in data science, analytics, data management or business intelligence
• Knowledge of BI front-end tools such as Tableau and RDB Programming such as SQL
• Ability to analyze complex, technical, qualitative and quantitative information and to tell the story behind the numbers
• Detail-oriented, rigorous, precise, with excellent verbal and written communication skills with diverse stakeholders at all levels

ASSETS

• Knowledge of QlikView, RDB Programming, statistical packages such as SAS, SPSS, R
• Experience in humanitarian contexts, international, multi-cultural working environment

WHAT WE OFFER

• Work and progressive professional development in an exciting international environment
• An inspiring opportunity to practice your profession in a humanitarian and multicultural organization
• Stimulating benefits package

If you are interested in this position, please send us your CV and Motivation letter exclusively in English.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.