Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, March 19, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Vacancy No: CGHR/133/02/20
Program description: This program is a collaboration between Kenya Medical Research Institute, Henry Jackson Foundation MRI and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention whose remit is to conduct research in Malaria, HIV, Tuberculosis and other diseases. Due to its continued growth, the program has a vacancy in the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Program.
POSITION: Data Analyst (1 position) KMR 6
REPORTS TO: Senior Data Manager
Job Summary: The data analyst’s position requires the incumbent to perform various data management, processing and analysis functions for the CHAMPS program in an accurate and timely fashion. .

Responsibilities
• Keep track of data entry timelines
• Provide technical support to all staff in terms of data access, manipulation, analysis etc
• Participate in design of data collection and capture tools as required.
• Liaising with partners and vendors in database changes or new
• Provide period data metrics for all studies
• Collate, query and clean data coming in from the field sites
• Training staff on appropriate data entry techniques
• Generate clean de-identified data files for export to external partners as required
• Address and document routine problems arising in the course of data
• Any other related duties as may be assigned from time to time by the supervisor

Job Skills: Not Specified

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or related field from a recognized university
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a busy data processing, management and analysis
• Excellent knowledge and working experience of at least one statistical package for data manipulation and analysis (STATA, SPSS, SAS), database software (SQL server, MySQL, MS Access).
• Experience in cleaning data and performing quality assurance procedures

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Education Experience: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Interested candidates who meet the criteria above are encouraged to send in their applications to:
The Deputy Director, KEMRI-CGHR,
P. O. Box 1578- 40100,
Kisumu
Applications are due no later than: March 26, 2020.
KEMRI IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER COMMITED TO DIVERSITY; PERSONS WITH DISABILITY, WOMEN, YOUTH AND THOSE FROM MARGINALIZED AREAS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. KEMRI DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF ITS RECRUITMENT PROCESS INCLUDING APPLICATION, INTERVIEW AND PROCESSING OF OFFER LETTER. IF ASKED FOR A FEE, REPORT SUCH REQUEST IMMEDIATELY

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