Data Analyst at African Population and Health Research Center

APHRC seeks to recruit a Data Analyst to manage and analyze secondary and primary data for an impact evaluation of an intervention that aims at reducing the incidence of HIV among adolescent girls and young women living in urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya.

Primary quantitative data will be collected on Android-based tablets using Open Data Kit (ODK) software.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in the development, review and translation of research tools
• Participate in the pre-testing of the data collection platform
• Data cleaning including doing all required consistency checks for project data
• Document project data sets according to the Center’s guidelines on data documentation, archiving and sharing
• Extract data and prepare analytical files
• Develop template syntax files for research staff to use in creating various data sets
• Perform exploratory and advanced statistical analysis of data
• Assist in training other staff members on data analysis
• Participate in scientific writing.

Key Competencies

• Strong conceptual and analytical skills including the ability to analyze and interpret large data sets
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.

Qualifications and Experience

• Master’s degree in statistics or equivalent in a relevant area
• A minimum of 5 years relevant post-qualification experience
• High level quantitative skills (managing, analyzing and interpreting data), such as multivariate and longitudinal analyses (preferably with STATA)
• Computer literacy in Microsoft packages (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
• Experience using Open Data Kit (ODK) software and Nesstar is highly desirable.