African Population & Health Research Center (APHRC) Data Systems Manager and NUHDSS Data Manager

APHRC Data Systems Manager and NUHDSS Data Manager

The African Population & Health Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to conducting high quality and policy relevant research on population, health, education and development issues facing sub-Saharan Africa.
The Center seeks to fill the positions Data Systems Manager and Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) Data Manager.

Data Systems Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and/or maintenance of highly efficient data management systems for all data collected at the Center;
• Manage database programmers to ensure they develop high quality software applications for various projects;
• Determine and facilitate the acquisition of resources needed to complete work in a timely and cost effective manner;
• Lead efforts to develop new data capture tools that utilize new technologies, especially in the area of electronic data collection;
• Provide leadership in the development of work scheduling tools to allow planning of data processing activities;
• Ensure software applications and databases are developed and maintained to internationally approved standards;
• Ensure data quality checks are developed and implemented;
• Oversee data entry and filing processes;
• Ensure preliminary cleaned data is available to data analysts for further cleaning and preparation of analytical data sets; and
• Manage staff in the data processing unit and provide oversight for data processing.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree in information sciences, computer science or related area;
• 7 years’ post qualification experience, preferably in a research institution;
• Excellent leadership skills;
• Excellent writing and presentation skills; and
• Experience managing longitudinal data management systems is desirable.

NUHDSS Data Manager

Responsibilities

• Contribute to study design and analysis plan in proposal development;
• Compute sample size and power calculations for research studies;
• Develop pre-analysis and analysis plans;
• Data cleaning and analysis including doing all required consistency checks for the project assigned;
• Develop data cleaning guidelines for project(s);
• Document 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;
• Produce event monitoring indicators on regular basis (monthly, quarterly, annually) and feedback to the field team indicators that would help to improve data quality;
• Generate annual profile indicators (percentages, proportions, rates, etc.) on longitudinal studies;
• Write technical reports on data issues;
• Perform exploratory and advanced statistical analysis of data;
• Assist in training other staff members on data analysis;
• Conduct literature reviews, and participate in scientific writing;
• Participate in the development, review and translation of research tools;
• Participate in pre-testing of data capture and entry platforms; and
• Participate in training of field interviewers.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Demography, Public Health or equivalent;
• 5 years’ post qualification experience, preferably in a research institution;
• Good knowledge of and significant experience working in a Health and Demographic Surveillance System;
• Excellent writing and presentation skills;
• Good knowledge of longitudinal data analysis (e.g. Event History Analysis); and
• Knowledge of Stata package is desirable. 

How to Apply

Interested candidates are invited to send via email no later than June 23, 2015, their letter of application and CV with contact details of three referees to jobs@aphrc.org.
Please, indicate the position you are applying for on the subject line of the email.
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