Organization: African Population and Health Research Center
Country: Kenya
Closing date: 03 Dec 2019

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit organization that carries out high quality and policy-relevant research on population, health, education and development issues facing sub-Saharan Africa. The Center seeks to recruit a Data Analyst to work within its Population Dynamics, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Unit.

Duties/Responsibilities:

· Participate in the development, review and translation of research tools;

· Participate in the pre-testing of data collection platforms;

· Data cleaning including conducting all the 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;

· Develop template syntax files for research staff to use in creating various data sets;

· Perform basic and advanced statistical analysis of data;

· Assist in training other staff members on data analysis;

· Participate in scientific writing;

· Write technical reports on data issues; and

· Participate in proposal development and review.

Qualifications, experience and skills:

· Master’s degree in statistics or equivalent;

· At least 5 years’ post qualification experience in high level quantitative skills -managing, analyzing and interpreting data- such as multivariate and multilevel/ longitudinal analysis, preferably with STATA;

· Proficiency in MS Office; and

· Experience using Open Data Kit (ODK) software and Nesstar is highly desirable.

How to apply:

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply by email to jobs@aphrc.org with the subject ‘Data Analyst’ by December 03, 2019. Only short listed candidates will be contacted. Cover letters should be addressed to:

The Human Resources Officer

African Population and Health Research Center, Inc

APHRC Campus, Manga Close, off Kirawa Road, Kitisuru

P. O. Box 10787-GPO, Nairobi

Website: www.aphrc.org

APHRC is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to the protection of children