Traineeship in the Assistance Division

Reports to the head of the Assistance Data Management team

What we do

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) works worldwide to provide humanitarian assistance to people affected by conflict and armed violence. We take action in response to emergencies and at the same time promote respect for international humanitarian law. We are an independent and neutral organization, and our mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. We work closely with National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and with their International Federation in order to ensure a concerted, rational and rapid humanitarian response to the needs of the victims of armed conflict or any other situation of internal violence. We direct and coordinate the international activities conducted in these situations.

Purpose

The Associate will contribute to the maintenance and management of data, reports and analyses. In addition, s/he will partner with the global Assistance community in the field and at headquarters in building meaningful and actionable Business Intelligence capability.

Accountabilities & Functional responsibilities

Day-to-day operations

• Validate that data from various sources correspond to expectations and to the centralized Assistance data repository designated as the ‘single source of truth’
• Monitor data quality in terms of accuracy, completeness and timeliness and collaborate with the Assistance Units, other divisions and the field to resolve data quality issues
• Contribute to dashboard design and development, regular and ad hoc reports and analyses, including institutional reports
• Support Assistance end users of the front-end tool, in headquarters and in the field
• Coordinate with other projects that impact continuity of data and reporting processes
• Prepare and process raw structured and unstructured data

Business Intelligence

• Enrich BI-capability through additional data sources and new indicators
• Produce and maintain a full and detailed data dictionary for a common understanding of measures
• Improve data-related business processes through automation, where appropriate
• Contribute to and maintain the support structure for data quality
• Contribute to models and analyses with actionable insights
• Participate in division and institutional efforts at Data Governance

Certifications / Education required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information management, data science, mathematics, statistics or a similar technical field
• Strong knowledge of Excel and front-end tools (Tableau, QlikView)
• Knowledge of RDB programming (SQL, Oracle Rdb) or statistical packages (SAS, SPSS) is a plus

Professional Experience required

• Experience in humanitarian operations is a plus
• Experience in data management, data mining or business intelligence is a plus
• No more than one year experience (or two years if supplemented by traineeships) after your last graduation

Desired profile and skills

• Strongly motivated by humanitarian work
• Able to work under pressure
• Fluency in English, French is a plus
• Flexible, systematic, meticulous, proactive, with good relationship-building skills and a customer service mindset
• Good verbal and written communication skills

Additional information

• Type of role: Traineeship
• Working rate: 100%
• Starting date: 1 November 2018
• Location: Geneva
• Length of assignment: 12 months
• Application deadline: 28/10/2018