Vacancy title:
Statistician

Jobs at:
UCSF Global Programs for Research & Training

Deadline of this Job:
31th August 2018

Duty Station:
Nairobi, Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: 21th August 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:
Background:
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is engaged in a five-year Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya (CDC-Kenya) to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health and its partners for conducting HIV and STI surveillance and survey activities, as well as program monitoring and evaluation.

We are recruiting an individual through our affiliated international NGO Global Programs for Research & Training to serve as a Statistician. This position requires a one-year commitment, with the potential for extension at the end of the period, subject to funding availability.
Under the supervision of the Medical Epidemiologist the Statistician will work with the UCSF and Global Programs in-country team and with investigators at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), HIV Implementation Science and Services (HISS) branch, the National AIDS and STI Control Programme (NASCOP), and other partners to support HIV surveillance activities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

•  Supervise and support survey data collection procedures
  
•  Supervise and support electronic transmission of data from the field to the data server
  
•  Manage study databases and oversee data entry application
  
•  Manage survey data cleaning process and regularly give data quality feedback to the field data collection team
  
•  Provide survey progress reports to the survey coordinator
  
•  Conduct statistical analysis of data and provide interpretation of results
  
•  Supporting protocol development in relation to sample size calculations and sampling design
  

Minimum Requirements:

•  A Master’s degree in statistics/biostatistics, computer science/IT studies, or related field with minimum three years working experience is required, or a bachelor’s degree with five years of progressive professional experience
  
•  At least two years of relevant experience working with a DBMS (e.g. Access, MySQL).
  
•  Proficiency in at least one software package (e.g. SAS/STATA/R) for analysis and data cleaning
  
•  Experience with managing computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) software such as ODK/CSPro/QDS, or similar
  
•  Demonstrated oral and written communication skills
  
•  Fluency in English is required
  

Preferred skills/qualities:

•  Experience managing survey data
  
•  Ability to prioritize, work under deadlines, work with minimal supervision and multitask.
  
•  Knowledge of concepts of public health, epidemiology and surveillancee