Data Analyst at Mercy Corps

Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders

Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills

Required:

• 4 to 6 years professional experience with data analysis
• Specific experience setting up and maintaining cloud-based data management systems, Microsoft Azure preferred though not required
• Proven experience conducting thorough and quality analysis of survey data sets
• Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s preferred
• Excellent organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
• Excellent proficiency using Excel and a data-related scripting programming language (Python preferred, R & Stata desired)

Desired:

• Working on analysis of data sets that relate to energy in humanitarian or development contexts
• Experience developing and deploying machine learning and other statistical/optimisation models
• Work in contexts around Africa and internationally