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 data collection platforms;
• 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 basic and advanced statistical analysis of data;
• Assist in training other staff members on data analysis
• Participate in scientific writing;
• Write technical reports on data issues; and
• Participate in proposal development and literature review.

Key Competencies

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

Qualifications and Experience

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