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Established in 1934, the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) is an independent, humanitarian institution which has been recognized by the government of Afghanistan as an auxiliary to State agencies. ARCS play an important role in delivering disaster response services. Under the 2016 Red Crescent Law, ARCS carry out its activities in accordance with the principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary services, unity and universality. Among others, ARCS have the duty to provide assistance to disaster-affected communities, supply emergency shelter, and distribute relief items to vulnerable people. Through its network of 7 regional branches and 34 provincial branches and more than 20,000 staff and trained volunteers, ARCS is amongst the few national organizations with nation-wide outreach and access. Over the past decades, ARCS has managed to uphold its neutrality and enjoys acceptance enabling its teams to carry out principled humanitarian action across the lines of conflict, including in the large portions of the territories controlled by armed opposition groups. With the support of its Red Cross Red Crescent Movement partners – the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Partners National Societies like the Norwegian Red Cross – ARCS has also strengthened its management systems, procedures and partnerships to respond to emergencies, upon request of the public authorities or under its own initiative.

Purpose

Understanding of the scale of weapon contamination is crucial to build up a relevant response. ICRC teams jointly with other actors are gathering information of incidents affecting communities. To compile all the information, the ICRC is operating a dashboard (based on data collected on Device Magic and available on Tableau) that provides clear and useful charts for analysis. In addition, the WeC department needs to have a strong monitoring system of activities carried out in the field.

The Weapon Contamination (WeC) Data Administrator supports the monitoring of WeC activities, including activities, incidents, accidents and activity reports from the ARCS.

Main Responsibilities:

Functional Responsibilities:

• Performs duties related to data entry and basic analysis in a database such as:

• Inputting information from multiple data sources to a database (Device Magic)
• Updating information concerning individual files and personal data in a database
• Crosschecking and comparing data from different sources (e.g. different forms, excel tables and the database)

• Other tasks

• Monitoring of WeC related activities, including the ones carried out with the ARCS;
• Translating documents from authorities;
• Analyzing and crosschecking the information available in the database- Relation with protection teams and Tableau;
• Filing and archiving of paper files