Data Analyst at African Population and Health Research Center

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.