Jobs at African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

Duties and responsibilities

• Develop a thematic codebook for generating themes and sub-themes in line with the objectives of the analysis. This will involve producing summaries, abstracts and coding.
• Develop coding notes from the Key Informant Interviews (KIIs), and freelisting interviews.
• Carry out a detailed analysis of the qualitative data collected using appropriate analysis tools such as NVivo or Dedoose.
• Develop qualitative analysis report that includes a description of results in terms of themes and sub-themes, including but not limited to quotations, examining relationships and patterns between categories and themes, discussion of results, and annex for the final codebook.
• Contribute to the writing of qualitative methods sections for reports or other publications.
• Ensuring the daily upload of the complete data.
• Work with the evaluation team to identify appropriate analytical methods to conduct qualitative analyses accordingly.
• Perform other related work as needed.

Qualifications and competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in any Social Science or equivalent.
• Proficiency with one or more statistical analysis software packages, such as NVivo, for data management and analysis.
• At least two years’ experience in qualitative data analysis using content analysis, including the application of conceptual frameworks, codebook development, and coding.
• Experience performing rapid qualitative analysis.
• Excellent report writing skills and experience in producing high-quality reports on outcomes of qualitative analysis.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Experience working on health and/or social science research projects.
• Understanding of basic concepts of confidentiality and data security.

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Duties and responsibilities

• Develop the project’s pre-analysis and analysis plans.
• Conduct data cleaning and analysis including conducting all required consistency checks.
• Conduct status analysis of the Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) outcomes.
• Perform the trends in ASRH outcomes and their drivers during the policy implementation period.
• Document and manage datasets 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.
• Develop the evaluation report that includes community mapping using GIS or data visualizations software.
• Write technical reports

 Qualifications and experience

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Demography, Epidemiology, Public Health or equivalent.
• Knowledge in statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing large datasets (g. STATA, R software).
• Experience in GIS data analysis and mapping as well as in data visualizations using MS Excel or other tools.
• At least 5 years of working experience as a data analyst.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of data/information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent written communication skills.

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Responsibilities

• Contribute to various stakeholder engagement activities such as inception meetings and policy engagement in Kenya;
• Participate in workshops, meetings, conferences and report on the proceedings;
• Support the development of study protocols, application for ethical approvals and research permits;
• Participate in scientific publications and other dissemination resources such as technical reports, donor reports, briefing papers and blogs;
• Contribute to proposal development efforts in the Center;
• Coordinate the recruitment, training and supervision of field staff during data collection;
• Participate in development and review of study tools, training manuals and field guides to use for data collection;
• Assist in facilitating in-country and multi-country training workshops;
• Support knowledge management and learning activities in the project;
• Undertake desk and literature reviews; and
• Support with quantitative data management and analysis.

Qualifications and Experience

• Master’s degree in any of the following areas: population studies/demography, statistics, epidemiology, economics or related discipline.
• At least two years’ post-Masters’ qualification experience in a research setting.
• Proven quantitative skills, with familiarity with related analysis packages STATA, SPSS, R.
• Experience analyzing routine health facility data (DHIS2) and national health surveys (DHS, MICS, SMART, PMA, SPA).
• Experience conducting field research and managing data collection teams.
• Experience in engaging policy makers and key stakeholders with research evidence.
• Ability to work independently, set priorities, juggle tasks and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills and ability to work in a culturally diverse team.
• Must be able to communicate and write in English. Knowledge of French will be a plus.

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Duties and responsibilities

• Transcription and translation of qualitative interviews conducted in English or Kiswahili to Kiswahili or English.
• Attend planning, review and debrief meetings with project staff.
• Write and share a report of the transcribing process.
• Clean and proofread set of transcribed interviews.
• Prepare a database entailing biographical information of the interviewees.

Minimum qualifications required

• Possess a Bachelor’s degree.
• Proficient in English and Swahili, (oral and written).
• Previous experience in transcribing qualitative interviews.
• Typing speed of 60WPM and above.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines without supervision.
• Self-discipline and ability to submit self-edited, high-quality work.
• Experience in conducting and coding qualitative data is an added advantage.