الوصف الوظيفي
Title: Data Scientist/ Databank Coordinator
Department: Monitoring and Documentation Department, Al-Haq
Unit: Databank unit
Reports to: Head of Monitoring and Documentation Department
Supervises: One data manager officer
Contract Type: One year (renewal)
Hours: 40h/ week
Type of Contract: National - Palestinian citizens or resident of the OPT
Main Duty Station and Location: Ramallah, Palestine
Expected start date: July 2022
About Al-Haq
Al-Haq
is an independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights
organisation based in Ramallah, West Bank. Established in 1979 to
protect and promote human rights and the rule of law in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory (OPT), the organisation has special consultative
status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Al-Haq
documents violations of the individual and collective rights of
Palestinians in the OPT, irrespective of the identity of the
perpetrator, and seeks to end such breaches by way of advocacy before
national and international mechanisms and by holding the violators
accountable. The organisation conducts research; prepares reports,
studies and interventions on breaches of international human rights and
humanitarian law in the OPT; and undertakes advocacy before local,
regional and international bodies. Al-Haq also cooperates with
Palestinian civil society organisations and governmental institutions in
order to ensure that international human rights standards are reflected
in Palestinian law and policies. The organisation has a specialised
international law library for the use of its staff and the local
community.
Al-Haq
is the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists -
Geneva, and is a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network
(EMHRN), the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Habitat International
Coalition (HIC), the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), and the Palestinian
Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC).
About the position
The
Data scientist will be heading the databank unit which is part of the
Monitoring and Documentation Department. She/he will be responsible for
Al-Haq’s Databank and supervising the data-entry colleagues working in
the Unit. This position is a new position and will therefore include an
institutionalisation process along the daily work. The unit has two
data-entry colleagues that are responsible for examining the data sent
from the field researchers and then entered into the databank system,
the colleagues are also in charge of extracting data upon internal and
external requests. The Data scientist will oversee the entire process of
examining, entering and extracting data, in addition to the data;
cleaning, management, analysis and presentation. The presentation of
data will include the creating of illustrations, charts, graphics to
create educational and informative visuals. The Data scientist will
prepare trends and patterns based on data to help Al-Haq in its human
rights work.
Duties
- Database and data-set administration including data-cleaning, data management and data organisation.
- Supervise data examination, entry and extraction.
- Extract relevant data upon request from colleagues.
- Facilitate configuration and customization of databases with external experts. and customization process upon need.
- Cross-check data with relevant Palestine-based databanks.
- Analyse trends and patterns using appropriate scientific methodology.
- Act in a consultancy capacity for the legal researchers and other human rights organisations if need be.
- Present information in a variety of formats and to a variety of audiences.
- Convey complex information to people who may not be specialists.
- Liaise with colleagues.
- Attend relevant meetings.
- Perform field visits.
- Supervise the development phases of the Databank and the Databank unit.
- Supervise the data unification process.
- Review existing data collection tools and recommend the best fit. Design internal processes and define methodology for data collection.
- Supervise unit staff.
- Create Standard of Procedures (SOP) for the unit.
- Any other duties as required by the head of the department.
متطلبات الو+ظيفة
Education:
A
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in information management, library
science/archivist, data analysis or statistics. Humanitarian degrees are
excepted only with excellent knowledge and experience in information
management
Required Competencies
- Experience in supporting human rights documentation efforts (monitoring, documentation, analysis, etc)
- Experience with maintaining or managing databases/archives and or experience with tools that support information management
- Here you would check what types of work relating to database management has the person done (information entry, data cleaning and migration, data analysis, etc)
- Experience liaising with technical service providers
- Familiarity of platforms such as Github or other for issue/bug reporting and version control
- Experience with working with technical user guides to navigate platforms
- Training skills? For at least internal knowledge transfer from time to time + training the field workers that are gathering data, etc
- Minimum 2 years of experience as a Data scientist, preferably with data related to humanities.
- Advanced analytical skills.
- Written and verbal communication skills in both English and Arabic.
- Knowledge in Human rights and/or Palestine context.
- Good managerial and supervision skills.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to present data and information in an informative manner.
- Knowledge in any Statistical programs is an asset
- Very strong attention to details and strong organisations skills.
- Experience working in teams, leading teams is required.
Languages:
Fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English is required.
Core values:
- Integrity
- Professionalism
- Respect for diversity and gender equality
- Commitment
Core competencies:
- Results orientation
- Planning and organising
- Problem solving
- Communication and trust
- Team orientation
- Organisational development and innovation
- Time management
تفاصيل الوظيفة
المسمى الوظيفي :
Data Scientist/ Databank Coordinator
آخر موعد للتقديم :
30 - Jun - 2022
المكان :
رام الله والبيرة
نوع الوظيفة :
دوام كامل
المستوى المهني :
متوسط الخبرة
الراتب :
N/A
الدرجة العلمية :
البكالوريوس
الخبرة :
2 Years
آلية التقديم
Contact and Application process
Please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, one sample of a visual illustration and contact information for two references before 30 June 2022 to: vacancy@alhaq.org
Please use “Vacancy Data scientist” as the subject of your email.
Only complete applications will be reviewed and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Al-Haq is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in its hiring practices.