Data Analyst Re-Advertisement: African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER
Promoting the well-being of Africans through policy-relevant research on population and health

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that carries out policy relevant research on population, health, education and development issues facing sub-Saharan Africa. The Center seeks to recruit a Data Analyst.

The successful candidate will have strong analytical and excellent communication skills. He/She must be self-motivated, flexible with due attention to details and a team player.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Taking responsibility for data cleaning, including doing all required consistency checks for the project(s) he/she is assigned.
• Develop proper documentation and dictionaries for all data sets.
  
• Extract data and prepare analyzable data sets
• Develop template syntax files for research staff to use in creating various data sets for analyses.
  
• Support the data analysis needs of researchers.
• Generate from the database regular data quality indicators for monitoring adherence to quality guidelines at both field and data entry levels.
• Generate annual profile indicators (percentages, proportions, rates, etc.) for long-term studies.
  
• Participate in development of questionnaires and other study instruments.
  
• Participate in training of fieldworkers and reviewing questionnaires completed in the field.
  
• Assist in training other staff members on data analysis.
• Write technical reports on the data entry process, including structure of databases in relation to questionnaires.
  
• Contribute to proposal development, literature review, and scientific writing as required.

Essential

• An MSc in Applied Statistics or Bio-Statistics or a quantitative social science discipline (e.g. Demography, Economics).
• Proven skills in managing large datasets (e.g. Demographic and Health Surveys, censuses, etc)
  
• Advanced programming skills in SPSS, STATA or SAS statistical packages
  
• Experience of statistical data analysis
  
• Experience in analyzing longitudinal and relational databases.

Desirable

• Knowledge of multiple statistical packages
• Knowledge and application of advanced statistical analysis (e.g. Binary and multinomial logistic regression, survival analysis etc)
• Evidence of scientific writing (e.g. for journals)

Please apply enclosing a detailed CV, quoting current and expected salary and providing contact details of three referees (at least one of whom must be a current/former employer) to the address below by November 28, 2008. Online applications should be sent to jobs @ aphrc.org with the position applied for written on the subject line. Only short listed candidates will be contacted. Those who applied before need not re-apply.

The Human Resources Manager
African Population and Health Research Center
P.O. Box 10787-00100 GPO, Nairobi
www.aphrc.org

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