Associate, Program Data Management at Evidence Action

Evidence Action’s mission is inviting credible applicants who are willing to partake in its ongoing recruitment to fill the position below:

Job Title: Associate, Program Data Management

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Monitoring, Learning, and Evaluation

 About Evidence Action’s mission: Evidence Action’s mission is to fill the gap between what is effective in global health and development and what is implemented at scale. One of our flagship programs is the Deworm the World Initiative, which envisions a world where all at-risk children have improved health, increased access to education and better livelihoods potential as a result of being free of intestinal worms.

Job Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in economics, statistics, or any other relevant field
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in quantitative research methods and data management, preferably with large and/or complex datasets.
• At least 1-year full time experience conducting data cleaning using Stata, R, Python or MatLab for large datasets (mandatory)
• Experience in working with and programming data entry interfaces using a variety of applications both purchased and open source. Knowledge of SurveyCTO, CSPro, ODK, KoBo and Access will be an added advantage (SurveyCTO and/or ODK highly preferred)
• Well conversant with the use of MS Office application especially Excel.
• Ability to work under pressure in a working environment that changes suddenly to accommodate new data needs
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills to work effectively with a team that is geographically dispersed.
• Self-directed/self-motivating personality, with proven ability to manage demands from multiple supervisors while adhering to program deadlines and priorities.
• Strong critical and analytical thinking skills.
• High attention to details and well organized.
• Should have real passion of working with data, be able to think and tell a story from the data (Key desirable)
• Intellectual flexibility and willingness to form and adjust opinions based on evidence
• Quick to learn, motivated to self-teach and capable of independently translating new knowledge into practice.

  How to Submit Your Application

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online

 Application Closing Date
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