Data Analyst at African Population and Health Research Center

APHRC invites applications for a Data Analyst, in its IDRC-RECAP project.

This project aims to assess the extent and nature of marketing of unhealthy foods to children, the gaps, barriers and facilitators in developing and implementing nutrition related non-communicable diseases (NR-NCDs) policies as well as legal feasibility of policy interventions related to NR-NCDs and the economic burden of NCDs in Kenya.

Duties / Responsibilities:

• Develop the project’s pre-analysis and analysis plans.
• Compute sample size and power calculations for the study.
• Data cleaning and analysis including doing all required consistency checks for the project.
• Document data sets according to the Center’s guidelines on data documentation, archiving and sharing.
• Extract data and prepare analytical files.
• Perform exploratory and advanced statistical analysis of data.
• Participate in training of fieldworkers.
• Support the coordination and supervision of data collection activities.
• Participate in the development, review and translation of research tools, data capture and entry platforms.
• Contribute to manuscript development, literature reviews, and technical reports and grant proposal development.

Qualifications and Experience

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Demography, Epidemiology, Public Health or equivalent.
• Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing large datasets (e.g. STATA, R softwares).
• At least 2 years working experience as a data analyst.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of data/information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent communication (written and spoken) and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in GIS data analysis and/or economic analysis will be an added advantage.