Background/IRC Summary:  The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war and disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

IRC has been working in Pakistan for approximately 40 years, managing and delivering large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, safeguarding, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. IRC works in partnership with local government and non-governmental organizations and is currently working across the country. 

Job Overview/Summary: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a dynamic and self-motivated individual for the position of MIS Officer for a five-year USAID-funded Women’s Economic Empowerment Activity (WEEA) Project in selected districts of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Newley Merged Districts along with CNIC registration across Pakistan. The project focusses on implementing interventions “To promote women's social and economic empowerment through safe and dignified access to livelihoods opportunities, information, resources and services”. These interventions will stimulate women’s economic and social empowerment and prepare foundation for integrating intervention to prevent and respond to gender-based violence (GBV).   In coordination with respective Implementing Partners, the MIS Officer reports to the MIS Manager of WEEA Project. The MIS Officer will assist MIS Manager in project information management system (PMIS) development, integration, testing and deployment of it.

Major Responsibilities:

·         Facilitate and support MIS manager in development of web-based real time Project Management Information System (PMIS).

·         Facilitate and support in developing relational database (RDBMS), stored procedures, views, functions, and other queries to manipulate datasets.

·         Support in writing client-side codes/scripts to introduce series of data quality assurance including masking, validation, and duplication prevention.

·         Facilitate in preparation of technical documentation and user guide for developed PMIS.

·         Support for safeguarding data, back-up, manage testing, trouble shooting and other web server management.

·         Facilitate MIS Manger in training WEEA staff, implementing partners staff for using PMIS data and its users from time-to-time assistance.

·         Support in the development of analytical modules of IS dashboard, this includes coding & testing of scripts, integration of UI components, retrieve aggregate level data through queries to populate graphs, and web reports.

·         To manage necessary installation and updates of software at Windows based server side and support for pilot testing of application and developed functions/modules and document comments and report test results.

·         Any work assigned by supervisor.

Key Working Relationships:

·         Reports to: MIS Manager

Job Requirements:

Education:

·         Master’s degree or equivalent in the field of Computer Science/Software engineering/Information technology.

Experience/Skills:

·         Confirmed work experience of 2-3 years as a Software Programmer/Engineer/Developer.

·         Ability to customize and develop web applications and website in PHP 7+, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX and Bootstrap etc.

·         Solid grasp of Laravel framework is required. Must have code base working experience of MVC structure.

·         Good knowledge of developing Web services, REST API's.

·         Handling MySQL database, writing queries, views, and triggers.

·         Experience working on Github.

Language Skills:  English and Urdu

The IRC Core Values and Commitments.

·         The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.

·         IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.

o   Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children

·         IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.

·         IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

Women candidates, minorities and persons with disability are highly encouraged to apply.