Data Cleansing Officer

Here at Human Appeal we have an exciting opportunity for a Data Cleansing Officer to join our team based in Cheadle, Greater Manchester (although the role will initially be home-based during Covid-19 restrictions). You will join us on a full-time basis as part of an initial 1-year fixed term contract with a view to progressing into a permanent role. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £22-25k per annum.

Human Appeal is a faith-based charity that aims to abolish poverty by providing humanitarian aid, sustainable development programs and championing advocacy for our beneficiaries worldwide.

As Data Cleansing Officer, the successful candidate’s role will be to complete a project, reviewing and cleansing the organisation’s data held in Salesforce to ensure there are no duplicates, and that the data is in order and correct. The role may also include some administrative tasks that support the wider team. This process of ensuring our data is accurate and useful will increase the efficiency of our internal processes, and thus improve our offering to our donors, helping Human Appeal to maintain their support and continue its growth.  We are ideally looking to appoint somebody immediately to this role.

Benefits of joining us as our Data Cleansing Officer include:

35 days Annual Leave

Matched pension contribution

Employee discounts and memberships

Access to wellbeing hub

Prayer facilities

Opportunity to really make a difference!

Key duties and responsibilities of the Data Cleansing Officer:

Verifying that data shows accurate information and is consistent across the dataset

Responsible for correcting or removing incorrect, incomplete, or duplicate data within dataset

Extracting and manipulating data

Formatting data in readiness to be uploaded to online systems

Maintaining donor records in accordance with donor requests

Management of database cleanse routines

Maintaining audit trail and records of Human Appeal’s work which is subject to regular audit

Review duplicate records and merge records

Proactively contact donors to ensure their contact details are up to date

Support ad-hoc administrative tasks to support the team

Interrogate data and amend as required

Liaise with other Human Appeal departments to verify data

What we’re looking for in our Data Cleansing Officer:

Ideally educated to Degree level in a related field e.g. IT / Finance

At least 1 year of proven administrative / office-based experience

Experience of using databases, with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail

Strong awareness of GDPR and confidentiality

Previous experience of Data Sourcing and Data Cleansing

Skilled with several of the following: Excel & Salesforce

The ability to use specific Excel functions including VLookup and Pivot tables

Fluent written and spoken English is essential. Additional languages such as Arabic, Urdu, are desirable

Ideally passionate and knowledgeable about the international development sector

This would be an ideal role for an experienced Data Cleansing Officer looking to make a difference in a rewarding role within the Charity Sector!

We are looking to appoint this role ASAP and will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis so for the best chance of success please click ‘apply’ today to become our Data Cleansing Officer – we would love to hear from you.

Disclaimer: Please be aware that due to the anticipated quantity of response, we will only be contacting candidates who are shortlisted to interview stage. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that unfortunately you have been unsuccessful this time