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About Spark Microgrants Spark Microgrants believes in a world where everyone lives with dignity and determines their own positive future. Decades of prescriptive aid have sidelined the poor from the very programs meant to uplift them. We believe in local solutions and catalyzing rural villages facing poverty into action. At the heart of Spark’s model, the Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP), are ‘town-hall’ style weekly meetings, in which women, men, young, old, plan together for their community’s future. Each village elects a leadership committee, establishes a village savings account, and launches a project of their choice.
Members receive training on financial management, transparency, leadership, village planning, and advocacy. Spark trains partner organizations and works with governments to scale the FCAP as the model of choice to advance social and economic development, improve lives, and secure lasting change. Spark is now active in 500+ villages in 6 countries, improving the lives of over 500,000 people. Overview of the position: The Manager, Data Systems & IT will own our data and discover the information hidden within. Helping us make smarter business decisions that contribute to our continued growth and the delivery of even better products.
He/she will be responsible for the design of data collection platforms, databases, and dashboards for data visualization. All this should be done inline with data governance policies across all the countries where Spark has operations and in ways that safeguards our data against cyber attacks.
Responsibilities
Ownership of Sparks Impact Data: Ensure all technical systems (data collection, storage and visualization) are managed appropriately that presents the organization with a singular “version of the truth” Develop and maintain database structures that allow an efficient and innovative analysis of their contents as well as ensuring data protection from security breaches and data losses Develop and maintain data flows between platforms and systems Work closely with the program design team to incorporate new platforms, systems, and initiatives into our data ecosystem Manage, develop and retain the product team members and ensure that they have clear responsibility domains, deliverables, growth opportunities, and support to achieve their goals Ensure the security and integrity of our data systems through regular backups, updates, and security protocols in line with data protection regulations in the different countries where Spark works.
Enabling the organization to take Data-driven decisions Responsibility for the setup and maintenance of core organizational dashboards Contribute to a culture of data-driven decision-making by ensuring that the data collected meets program needs and are analyzed and disseminated in a format that inspires conversation Leading on the data quality assurance of our monitoring data by ensuring robust data collection tool development and managing the continuous…