Statistician at Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS)

Ref: KNBS/S/5/2019

Terms of Employment: Fixed term contract for a period of 45 Months

Gross Monthly Remuneration: Kshs. 290, 757.75

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Senior Data An

Responsibilities

• Collecting, aggregating and merging data sets for multisectoral analysis;
• Assessing the distribution of variables for application of the most appropriate statistical;
• Analysing data using statistical software such as STATA or R by applying the most appropriate and robust statistical methods and sampling weights;
• Storing and cataloguing the syntax files, the output files and any history file of analysis to create a record of the analysis done;
• Creating new data sets of summary statistics for presentation in data dashboards;
• Assisting technical officers/Advisors to interpret the output of statistical analysis;
• Applying best practices in data processing, management and analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Statistics, Mathematics or equivalent qualifications from a recognised institution;
• Five (5) years’ working experience in organising and analysing large data sets, (ideally nutritional/biomedical or agricultural in origin, using statistical software.
• Experience in using Stata statistical software;
• Experience in STATA and R statistical software;
• Ability to produce reports will be an added advantage.