Assistant Statistician, Field Services - 5 Posts at Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS)

Monthly Remuneration

Basic Salary: Kshs. 46,500 – Kshs. 70,500
House Allowance: Kshs. 8,000
Commuter Allowance: Kshs. 8,000

Terms of Employment Permanent and Pensionable

Job Purpose

• Reporting to the County Statistics Officer, the jobholder will be responsible for undertaking activities in the Field Office.

Key Responsibilities

• Dispatching and receiving questionnaires;
• Following-up on non-responses from data providers;
• Collecting, collating, coding, capturing and classifying data;
• Capturing data into statistical applications;
• Maintaining checklists of data providers;
• Identifying and locating statistical units of enumeration;
• Carrying out pre-tests and piloting of data collection instruments;
• Printing questionnaires, archiving and retrieving completed returns;
• Updating county specific sampling frames;
• Preparing census databases for selection of sampling units;
• Listing field sampling units;
• Distributing sampling frame materials;
• Capturing data for developed and updated sampling units;
• Editing and updating records in the sampling frame database;
• Retrieving sampling units records;
• Undertaking any other duties lawfully assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements for Appointment

• Diploma in any of the following disciplines: Statistics, Economics, Actuarial Science, Mathematics or any other related qualifications from a recognized institution;
• Proficiency in computer applications.