Data Verification Assistant

Background

• The CRS Egypt country program began in 1956 at the invitation of the Egyptian president Nasser by providing relief assistance to the victims of the Suez War. Over the following few decades, CRS Egypt moved from large-scale food relief to long-term poverty alleviation and development programs. CRS Egypt works in a wide variety of areas within the development field regardless of race, creed, religion, or gender, to advance our mission to assist the poor and vulnerable.
• Currently, CRS Egypt has three main programs: livelihoods, interfaith peacebuilding, and education assistance for refugees. Projects under these programs range from the provision of technical assistance and capacity building to partners, the promotion of peace and tolerance, the provision of educational grants for refugees, and the protection and safeguarding of children. As part of the Education Program, the Basic Education Project supports over 50,000 refugee and asylum seeker children with access to education through a financial grant program and improves the quality of education received by students through a variety of non-formal educational activities and initiatives to improve the learning environment of students. These two components of the annual program require a substantial full-time staff as well as volunteers who assist in project implementation periodically throughout the year.

Job Summary:

• You will provide service in the day-to-day delivery of responsive, effective and efficient project activities in support of the Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) mission to serve the poor and vulnerable.
• You will provide consistent and high-quality service and contribute to the proper stewardship of project resources to help ensure operational effectiveness in support of high-quality programming.
• In the same way, the Data Verification Assistant for Education Grants, under the supervision of the Project Officer, will handle all the data verification work of the cash distribution ensuring compliance with donor and CRS requirements. Also, the candidate will proceed with all the transactional payments involved in the cash disbursement process.

Job Responsibilities:

• Review refugees’ documents and payments of education grants using the project database.
• Serve as an independent reviewer of all data entry and report on errors, inconsistencies, and areas for improvement.
• Assist in developing a weekly list of grant beneficiaries and amounts to be paid.
• Ensure the proper review, verification, and signatures and others are present for approval.
• Prepare transactional documents in support of project implementation and support and facilitate coordination of transaction processing.
• Compile data, perform data entry and data verification in relation to project implementation.
• Assist in maintaining a centralized clean database of project beneficiaries for the project team.
• Update the Education Program database on regular basis with relevant field data.
• Assist in reports development based on the verified data collected.