Data, Monitoring, and Research jobs at SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and Other Companies in Kenya

 
Deadline of this Job: 11 November 2022

Job Description
The KOSAP SSP RBF Facility Analyst will provide implementation support by gathering and maintaining data and information and applying analytical skills and thinking to assist the project team in interpreting the analytics in order to enhance performance of the project.

Duties and responsibilities
• The SSP RBF Analyst will maintain the Facility’s documentation, implement stakeholder engagement strategies, manage and maintain the KOSAP SSP RBF Facility databases, and support the KOSAP Facilities team in maintaining a robust RBF implementation ecosystem, including collaborative engagement with the Ministry of Energy, KOSAP Consultants, participating SSP companies, and other relevant stakeholders.

Detailed Work Brief
• KOSAP SSP RBF Facility Implementation Support
• Preparation and updating of the SSP RBF Facility implementation manual and other Facility documents
• Manage dissemination of information to potential SSP RBF applicants.
• Receive and safely store all KOSAP SSP RBF applications for funding.
• Review and scoring of SSP RBF proposals for funding
• Analyse data from the various rounds of funding.
• Conduct due diligence on all qualified solar RBF applicants.
• Support contract documentation process for funding rounds
• Effective collaboration with independent verification agent.
• Ongoing monitoring of awardee performance and initiation of non-performance protocols where necessary.
• KOSAP SSP RBF Facility Stakeholder Engagement
• Maintain updated database of all relevant stakeholders, with roles and full contact information
• Timely handling (acknowledgement and dispatch) to all stakeholder
• Promptly identify and internally communicate stakeholder concerns and grievances
• Collect and analyse capacity building data from potential SSP RBF applicants.
• Collect and analyse market data, including emerging risks.
• Maintain an updated repository and calendar of relevant industry meetings and events.

Deadline of this Job: 12 November 2022

Role Overview:
This role is responsible for the interpretation and statistical analysis of customer and customer related data through efforts of others over periods of up to a year. The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through own efforts.

Role Description:
• Extracts data from various internal and external sources.
• Performs data manipulation and descriptive/ exploratory data analysis
• Performs data quality checks and validates results
• Analyses data to support business requirements
• Liaises with data delivery teams
• Should be able to work without supervision for repetitive functions but requires supervision for more complex tasks.
• Builds dashboards and reports to help answer business questions
• Interprets and analyses data and presents internally
• Accepts and lives the company values.
• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts.
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality.
• Makes increased contributions by broadening individual skills.

Deadline of this Job: 18 November 2022

Job Purpose:
KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) is one of the leading research centres in Africa. The Programme engages in a wide range of research on the main causes of ill health in Africa. We are seeking to appoint an early postdoctoral researcher with a PhD completed in the field of bioinformatics or molecular biology to work in the Biosciences department. The successful candidate will be part of a research team seeking to understand HIV B-cell biology to inform HIV vaccine development. The candidate will be involved in bioinformatics analysis of HIV-antigen specific immunoglobulin gene usage and naïve B cell repertoires mainly in African populations. The incumbent will also provide bioinformatics support for other ongoing immunological work within the group. He/she will require solid knowledge of bioinformatics, be able to write and execute code and develop custom analysis suites for the project. Additional knowledge in molecular biology techniques will be an added advantage. This work is part of a five-year collaborative programme with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (2022 - 2026).

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the research team in bioinformatics analysis and interpretation of large sequencing data sets generated on diverse platforms (NextSeq,MiSeq and NovaSeq).
• Co-ordinating data transfer and analysis with collaborators
• Technology transfer from collaborating laboratories.
• Training and supervision of AROs and interns
• Designing exploratory analysis approaches and bioinformatics pipelines.
• Perform basic molecular biology procedures to generate sequencing libraries.
• Presenting of project results at different forums, locally and internationally.
• Contribute to the writing of scientific manuscripts
• Ensuring that all work done complies with the applicable regulations concerning biohazards, data privacy, Good Clinical and Laboratory Practice and maintain all documentation.
• And any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

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