Senior Database Coordinator

About the role

The Senior Database Coordinator manages, analyzes and visualizes data to support the management of HIV and TB grants within the Global Fund programme. The role covers program reporting, monitoring visits and geographic coverage data for six grant sub-recipients, and includes the apps Enhanced Outreach App and MyRight App. It sits in the Program Team, alongside the monitoring and evaluation sub-team, and reports to the Senior M&E Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Capture data from sub-recipients in the reporting database, check its accuracy, timeliness and completeness, and lead the automation of source documents to improve reporting efficiency.
• Maintain the monitoring visit recommendation database, coordinate updates and send recommendations to sub-recipients, and calculate performance indicators with one-page summaries per sub-recipient.
• Design and maintain a database of geographic coverage data including GPS locations, and act as focal person for descriptive statistics and dashboards.
• Administer the team's external SharePoint site and help link programmatic data with financial and procurement data.
• Lead technical discussions with developers on the Enhanced Outreach and MyRights apps, troubleshoot data and system issues, and oversee e-health data collection, validation and reporting.
• Develop and maintain e-health dashboards and reports, and advise on improvements to eHealth platforms and workflows.
• Train sub-recipients on database maintenance and eHealth tools, and build databases and data collection tools on request.
• Support colleagues with data management software and take part in meetings and workshops.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in information management, computer science or a related field.
• At least 4 years of experience in a related field, public or private sector.
• Experience developing and maintaining databases for project management.
• Commitment to Save the Children's aims, values and principles, and willingness to comply with its policies, including child safeguarding.
• Willingness to travel to field offices and work in difficult environments.

Required skills

• Expert knowledge of data management and analysis software, including Microsoft Excel, Power BI and relational databases (Access, MySQL or similar).
• Creating visual displays and dashboards to interpret data.
• Desirable: DHIS2, KoBo Toolbox and Microsoft Power Apps.