Nuru focuses on cultivating service- minded leaders and equipping people with necessary knowledge and skills to be able to lead their communities out of extreme poverty using local income-generating activities.

• Train staff on the use of database
• Research and resolve technical issues of database users from all program areas (Agriculture, CED, Education, Healthcare, Leadership, administration and M&E)
• Creation and interpretation of trends in graphs and charts for use in decision making
• Generation and interpretation of reports on operational and program indicators
• Summarize and analyze samples of data, including construction of confidence intervals and statistical tests of significance
• Contacting database vendor/M&E data scientist for technical support as and when needed.

• Plan, coordinate and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure.
• Establishment of user privileges to enhance data integrity and consistency controls there by protecting data from unauthorized use. Specify users and user access levels for each segment of database.
• Establishment of procedures and facilities for backing up data such as automatic dump, periodic backup, cold back, hot backup- or backups stored in a secure, off-site location.

• Approve, schedule, plan, and supervise the installation and testing of new products and improvements to M&E computer systems, such as the installation of new databases or software.
• Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes. Modifications/Changes should meet the needs of Nuru Kenya and Nuru International and should be done in consultation with the data scientist.
• Work as part of M&E team to coordinate and cultivate database and IT development and     determine project scope and limitations.
• Any other duty assigned to him/her by the line manager

• Holds a degree in Computer Science, IT, Statistics or other relevant quantitative  area
• Superior computer skills, specifically Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Internet and at least one statistical analysis software such as SAS, SPSS, R or STATA (STATA preferred)
• Experience writing formulas to manipulate large data sets in Excel or other statistical programs
• At least 2 years’ experience in Database management
• Fluent in written and spoken English (mandatory), Kiswahili (mandatory) and Kikuria (preferred)
• Has effective project management and communications skills
• Can work in office or field setting
• Long-term commitment to ending extreme poverty in rural Kenya  

• Can work for long periods of time