Education Data Management Officer at Aga Khan Foundation

Duties and responsibilities

• Work closely with the AKF education team to manage real-time data collection, analysis, and feedback to multiple education stakeholders.
• Provide school-based support to enable teachers and school leaders to effectively collect, analyse, and so use data to improve pedagogical practice and schools.
• Collaborate with the Learning and Assessment partners to track the programme activities and design processes in schools and maintain a database on the outputs for each phase of the process
• Lead internal professional development of staff to enable effective utilisation of AKF data platforms to be implemented across all AKF education programmes.
• Take lead in integrating new knowledge into programme implementation for education programming.
• Propose, develop and/or adapt data maintenance software and resources for use.
• Ensure all project funds are fully accounted for and liquidation is done in a timely manner to enable timely reporting.
• Engage and coordinate key partners, including the County Statistics department, at County level on data needs to ensure effective collection and management of data.
• Ensure project learning is effectively communicated through the internal and external feedback loops and that key partners have access to and understand the learning.
• Effectively engage AKF teams on learning opportunities to develop professional and technical understanding of data in education and Human Centred Design.
• Work closely with the MERL coordinator to continuously support the M&E functions for Schools2030.
• Any other duties as requested by the Programme Manager Coast.

Key qualifications and experience

• Relevant undergraduate qualification including, Statistics, Economics, Social studies, Computer Science, Demography, Geography.
• Minimum 3 years of experience of working in ICT enabled data management systems to drive organisational and system learning.
• Ability to design Result Measurement Frameworks, Data Collection Tools, Sampling Methods and Quantitative/Qualitative Data Analysis is required.
• Knowledge of online and offline, open-source data collection tools and approaches and or database environment and/or project management software.
• Relevant experience working in education programming and international development an added advantage.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and under pressure.