Short-Term Consultant Data Professionals job at African Population And Health Research Center (APHRC)

Vacancy title:
Short-Term Consultant Data Professionals

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Data Science / Research ]

Jobs at:

African Population And Health Research Center (APHRC)

Deadline of this Job:
17 February 2023  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Key Responsibilities
• Participate in the development, review and translation of research tools;
• Participate in the pre-testing of data collection platforms / databases;
• Data cleaning including doing all required consistency checks for project data;
• Document project data sets according to the Center’s guidelines on data documentation, archiving and sharing;
• Extract data and prepare analytical files;
• Support harmonization and standardization of data sets including development of Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETLs);
• Perform basic and advanced statistical analysis of data;
• Participate in scientific writing;
• Write technical reports on data issues; and
• Participate in development of standard operating procedures for data use at the Center.

Key Competencies
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills including the ability to analyze and interpret large data sets.
• Proactive and self-motivated.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
• A bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree in statistics, biostatistics, data science, data systems development, machine learning, AI, health informatics, mathematical modeling or equivalent.
• Consultants should have demonstrable and extensive experience in their preferred data areas of interest.
• High level quantitative skills (managing, analyzing and interpreting data).
• Knowledge of programming, analytical and visualization tools such as STATA, R, Tableau, Python, PowerBi, etc. is essential.
• Knowledge of geographical information system tools such as QGIS, ArcGIs, GeoCLIM, etc. is desirable.
• Working knowledge in data management platforms such as Open Data Kit (ODK), REDCap, SurveyCTO, Nesstar, KoboCollect, etc is desirable.
Closing: February 15, 2023


Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8


Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Data, Monitoring, and Research jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 17 February 2023
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 15-02-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 15-02-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 15-02-2067
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