Data Manager - Migori or Kisumu at Kenya Medical Research - KEMRI

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop data entry forms and surveys using REDCap to ensure efficient and accurate data collection.
• Implement branching logic, skip patterns, and validation checks within REDCap to optimize data quality.
• Evaluating study data for protocol compliance
• Develop and implement data management plans to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and integrity.
• Oversee the entire data life cycle, including data collection, cleaning, validation and storage, to ensure the accuracy and completeness of study data.
• Supervising verification of data, check and clean raw data as soon as it is uploaded or entered by field staff
• Collaborate with study team members to establish and enforce data management protocols and standards.
• Establish and maintain a secure and organized database for longitudinal cohort study data.
• Regularly update and back up the database, ensuring data security and compliance with relevant regulations.
• Creating and maintaining SOPs related to the management project data
• Performing data query management, to identify and address discrepancies or errors promptly.
• Monitoring study data to ensure the quality and completeness of the data submitted
• Generating Quality Control reports for review and correction, as well as a variety of other reports as required.
• Implement data quality assurance protocols to maintain the highest standards of data integrity.
• Perform weekly summary reports for quality monitoring
• Perform statistical analyses to derive meaningful insights from the longitudinal data.
• Generate reports and visualizations to communicate findings to the research team.
• Creating and managing data dictionaries, including updating and checking stored information related to the study, updating datasets and associated data dictionaries, as well as maintaining a record of data and variable updates (version control)
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of data management processes, including data dictionaries, coding procedures, and variable definitions and updates.

Vacancy Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Epidemiology, Biostatistics or Applied Statistics or any other relevant field from a recognized institution    Mandatory
• At least two (2) years of relevant research experience is an added advantage.    Added Advantage
• Strong statistical analysis skills using tools such as SAS, STATA, R, Python, or similar.    Mandatory
• Proficient in REDCap programming and customization.    Mandatory
• High level of competency in using Microsoft, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint    Mandatory
• Experience with data management tools and software e.g. Microsoft SQL server, Redcap, SAS or R,    Mandatory
• Strong analytical ability, planning, and organizational skills    Mandatory
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.    Mandatory
• Ability to lead a team    Mandatory
• Analytical and report writing skills    Mandatory