Job Title:  Monitoring & Data Associate

Duty Station:   Head Office, Islamabad

Reporting to:   Program Manager

The Akhter Hameed Khan Foundation (AHK-F) is looking for a motivated individual to join its team as a Monitoring & Data Associate. This role will involve supporting data collection, analysis, and reporting to help guide decision-making and improve the effectiveness of programs. The ideal candidate will have experience in data analysis and monitoring, and a passion for contributing to meaningful development work

1. Data Validation, Analysis and Research (Surveys and Field)

• Identify strengths and weaknesses in existing data collection and Software and propose solutions.
• Programmatic data review and analysis for management decisions
• Update the team with latest software's and method of data acquisition and analysis.
• Lead the mentoring and project teams and supervision of data collection i.e. Primary monitoring (Phone calls and field updates)
• Preliminary analysis (ensuring data quality) - according to the organization’s guidelines
• Daily status update to Program/Project teams/management- maintenance of tracking sheet
• Dataset version control including maintaining updated index of all the datasets
• Data processing reports - comprehensive record of all changes/cleaning e.g. clear record of replacement/incomplete /rejected interviews etc. and status of dataset and shared regularly with management.
• Participate in design, analysis and write up of research studies.
• Designing and finalizing of research questionnaire for program/project.
• Provide trainings on Survey CTO and other data tools to field team
• Develop Training materials and get ready with implementation team
• Monthly/Quarterly program/project progress/training report

2. Monitoring & Review

• Development of monitoring tools and mechanisms to assess projects
• Monitoring checklists
• Input, output, process, and outcome level monitoring framework for interventions
• Compliance with donor and project objectives, KPIs and indicators
• Feedback to teams and Supervisors Review of feedback changes and incorporation
• Weekly/monthly M&E visits
• Reporting to teams and management through power points and easy to understands formats
• Monitoring dashboards

3. Training

• Provide trainings on Survey CTO and other data tools
• Develop Training materials
• Training report
• Pretest & Posttest assessment of trainees

4. Leadership & Capacity Building

• Capacity building of colleagues and teams in technical subjects and soft skills
• Professional representation of AHK Foundation at all forums
• Time Management
• Adding value to the data and organizational systems

5. Additional Responsibilities:

• Collaboration on CLMIS data along with Research Analyst and complete the analysis with paper write up on cost for FP channels with Senior Researcher.
• Any other task assigned by supervisor/Management.

Education & Qualification:

• Master’s degree in public health, Statistics, Data Science, Economics, Social Sciences, or a related field.
•  3-4 years of experience in data analysis, monitoring, and evaluation.
•  Experience with data analysis tools.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools like Excel or Power BI.
• Strong communication, report writing, and time management skills.