Data Entry Consultant

Save the Children’s vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Save the Children started our work in Vietnam in 1990, and implements programs in the key thematic areas: Education, Health and Nutrition, Child Protection, Child Rights and Governance, Child Poverty, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Emergency Response. At present, Vietnam Country Office has programs in 22 out of 63 provinces in Vietnam.

Save the Children in Vietnam continues to develop innovative programming that reflects the overall strategic goal of measurably improving the survival, health, protection and development of Vietnam’s poorest children by strengthening the capacity of women and children, caring adults, communities and partner organizations.

Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all our personnel and programs are absolutely safe for children.

Child Safeguarding positioning statement:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

We are looking for a Vietnamese national for Consultancy service, with following information:

I.    Objectives of the Consultancy:

The consultancy to provide data entry for:

• The Employability Adaptation (EA) Tool Second Pilot Survey
• The paper-based baseline survey for Employability Training courses for students organized during July – August, 2018
• The project beneficiary database for Employability Training courses for students organized during July – August, 2018

II.    Consultant’s responsibilities:

The selected consultant will work with the Project Manager/ Project team and MEAL intern to accomplish the following key tasks:

• Enter 640 questionnaires of the EA Tool Second Pilot survey; 120 - 300 questionnaires of the Baseline Survey into a data system (to be decided, either Excel, SPSS or Epi Data).
• Enter 20 – 30 pages of project beneficiary participant list into Excel.
• This requires checking each questionnaire and entering response codes into a computer data entry form. The output of this step is that we will have a data set under Excel or SPSS form for analysis;
• Check data for data entry errors (for this purposes, 5% of the data need to be entered twice), internal consistencies

The actual number of questionnaires to be entered depending on the number of S2S project participants for the July – August, 2018 period

III.    Expected deliverables outputs:

• Excel/ SPSS/ Stata file with entered data of EA Tool second pilot survey
• Excel/ SPSS/ Stata file with entered date of the baseline survey
• Excel file of the project database (template to be provided)

IV.    Duration/Timeframe:

The duration of this work would be depending on the training schedule of the S2S Employability Skill course. Work would be assigned after completion of each training course. The contract will start from 10 July 2018 and must be completed before 30 September 2018. 

Consultant’s Qualifications:

• Bachelor/College Degree in a relevant discipline, e.g., social sciences, public health...
• Good computing skills (Excel, Epidata, SPSS, Stata)
• English language skills (preferred)

Please send:

• Your updated CV (in English) and a completed SC’s Application form;

to:

Save the Children International in Vietnam,
4th Floor, Machinco Building, No. 444 Hoang Hoa Tham street, Tay Ho District, Hanoi
or by Email: [email protected]

The SC’s Application form and the TOR of the position are attached.

The closing date for application is 5 pm on Wednesday, 18th July 2018.

Applications will be treated in confidence. Due to the volume of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted and CVs cannot be returned.

Save the Children is an equal opportunities employer. Our selection processes reflect our commitment to the protection of children from abuse, and our people are as diverse as the challenge we face.  We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, HIV/AIDS status, race, national origin, religion, or sexual orientation.