Data Analyst at M-Shule

About the role

You will be a major part of a small and agile team driving the first-ever application of artificial intelligence in primary schools in East Africa.

We have already built and are implementing our product in low-cost primary schools across Nairobi, Kenya. We now invite you to tackle projects like designing and implementing customer insights programs, using quantitative and qualitative data to understand learning performance growth, and helping the team test and iterate on assumptions to improve our business. If you enjoy creating actionable insights from data that leads to huge impacts, then our team is a great fit for you.

Job Description:

• Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data from a variety of sources to allow team to make decisions around user experience, product, performance, and strategy.
• Designing experiments and projects to test impact assumptions, measure KPIs, and make recommendations based on your findings.
• Developing and monitoring new and better systems for high-quality data collection, measurement, and management.
• Creating compelling stories about our impact based on analyses to share with customers, team members, partners, and other stakeholders.

Required Profile:

A desire to impact education, independent project management skills, and exceptional problem-solving abilities are all essential prerequisites on the M-Shule team.

For this role, we’re also looking for someone with the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field such as Economics, Maths, Statistics, Business, Finance, or Computer Science; other degrees acceptable if there was strong coursework in the above areas.
• Master of some of Microsoft Excel, SQL/Linqpad (or other query language), R, and/or Stata.
• Experience in working across quantitative and qualitative data to extract actionable insights and communicate recommendations to improve performance.
• Flexibility and willingness to jump in and lead projects in a hands-on, fast-paced startup environment.