JBC BLOG & NETWORK: Data Analyst AT Jhpiego Ebonyi, NG

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Data Analyst AT Jhpiego Ebonyi, NG

Job description

Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, is a global leader in improving healthcare services for women and their families. In collaboration with UNITAIDS, Jhpiego will be implementing a Malaria-in-Pregnancy (MIP) project. This project aims to scale up an innovative, community-based approach to expand coverage of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (lPTp), with quality assured sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), for pregnant women.

Jhpiego Hereby Invites Applications From Highly Resourceful, Experienced And Dynamic Professionals For The Position Below

The project will operate over a five-year period.

Job Title: Data Analyst

Responsibilities

The Data Analyst will oversee data collection, verification, and analysis for an upcoming UNITAID project to expand access to preventive chemotherapy for pregnant women in Nigeria.
The Data Analyst will provide key support for deployment of tablet-based data collection, supporting adherence to standard operating procedures in data collection, verification and quality improvement. Provide routine reports to the M&E Advisor on status of data collection, successes and challenges, and recommendations for overcoming them.
Support and build capacity of health workers and managers in quality data recording, analysis and interpretation, and use of data for improvement. Collect and report provincial/district service delivery data against the indicators. Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures.
Generate data analysis for reporting, oversee day-today data collection of provincial/district service delivery data, conduct initial analysis of data and ensure quality of data through data verification procedures, including routine data quality audits.

Additional Information

All staff members of Jhpiego, regardless of the level of their responsibilities are expected to:

Model the mission and values stated above
Participate in the business development processes
Contribute to the knowledge sharing and transfer process
Make responsible decisions that result in time and cost containment and clear accountability
Participate in multiple teams, adopt team spirit, take responsibility for action items assigned nd provide feedback as needed
Multitask, be able to manage competing priorities and be able to prioritize in order to meet program and/or organizational objectives

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in International Public Health, Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences or related field or equivalent experience.
5+ years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development programs (approximately $10M per year).
Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, operations research, health management information systems, reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation.
Data analysis experience in maternal and child health care.
Familiarity with Nigeria health management information system and other national M&E systems.
Appreciation for socio-cultual differences in countries, preferably having lived and worked in one or more low resource settings.
Excellent writing and communications skills.
Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams
Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following; SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Access.
Fluent in written and spoken English.
Excellent facilitation, oral and written communications skills.
Ability to travel nationally.