The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit, nongovernmental organization that carries out policy relevant research on population, health, education and development issues facing sub-Saharan Africa.
The Center seeks to fill the following vacancies:
Database Programmer
The successful candidate will have strong analytical and excellent communication skills.
He/she must be self-motivated, flexible with due attention to details and a team player.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Analyse, design, develop and deploy applications used for capturing and evaluating research data
- Maintain and improve existing applications
- Design and develop relational databases for new research projects
- Enforce and monitor both relational and temporal consistency checks in the database
- Write views to retrieve data for analysis as well as convert data to formats required by researchers
- Design and update programs to generate various reports from the database
- Train Data Entry Clerks and address programming issues encountered during data entry
- Coordinate and monitor quality control during data capturing, including double data entry activities
- Produce regular data entry performance indicators
- Perform basic data cleaning in the database following data entry
- Support Data Entry Clerks supervisors in managing the data entry process
Essential
- A B.Sc. degree in Computer Science or in a data and information management related discipline. Diploma holders with extensive knowledge and experience of programming in Visual Basic and SQL will be considered
- Experience in developing and maintaining applications using OOP principles in a .NET language (Visual Basic or Visual C#).
- Experience in designing and developing large relational databases preferably using Microsoft SQL server
- Skills in manipulating data: writing complex SQL scripts to extract, transform and load data in SQL Server.
- Knowledge of EPI-INFO or any other data management application
- Good communication and supervisory skills
Desirable
- Knowledge of concepts in temporal databases
- Report writing skills
Human Resources Officer
Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist in recruitment, selection, orientation, and retention of staff
- Ensure all relevant staff records are updated and maintained and all staff files are safeguarded and kept confidential at all times
- Work with the Human Resources and Administration Manager to manage the performance appraisal process and track HR budgets
- Participate in development and implementation of HR policies and procedures
- Coordinate generation of employee contracts
- Generate information for periodical reports on overall HR status at the Center
- Assist in determination of staff training and development needs, design training programs and ensure their successful implementation
- Evaluate training programs
- Ensure that employee performance standards are established and reviewed periodically
- Identify strategies for strengthening interpersonal relations within the office and improving staff morale
- Administer clearing procedures
- Assist in finding solutions to employee concerns
- Keep abreast with emerging trends in Human Resource Management
- Timely follow-up to all related human resources matters
Essential
- A Bachelors degree and professional qualifications in Human Resources Management
- Minimum 3 years relevant working experience preferably in an NGO / international organization
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Ability to operate an HR Information System
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Knowledge of Labour laws
Communications Assistant
Due to the strategic expansion in its Policy Engagement and Communication unit, APHRC seeks to recruit two communication assistants.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Publications:
- Develop content for APHRC non-technical publications i.e. newsletters, annual reports, brochures, etc. This includes gathering information and writing stories.
- Coordinate the production of APHRC publications i.e. dealing with graphic designers and printers.
- Circulate APHRC publications to relevant audiences – through mailing, workshops, etc.
- Participate in mass media engagement through such activities as establishing and maintaining links with relevant journalists, interesting journalists to write/prepare stories in the areas where APHRC works and media monitoring, among others.
- Provide communications support to dissemination activities both at policy and community levels.
- Assist in managing APHRC’s library, journal subscriptions, and acquisition of literature from web-based electronic databases
- Assist in updating content of the Center’s website
- Carry out other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.
Essential (Skills and Qualifications)
- Bachelors Degree in Communications
- Skills or interest in electronic and new media as well as graphics/visual communication
- Excellent writing skills and ability to translate complex scientific facts into simple messages for general audiences.
- Computer literate with proficiency in MS Office Suite, and Desk-Top Publishing software
Candidates who meet the requirements above should submit their applications enclosing a detailed CV, quoting current and expected remuneration and providing contact details of three referees (at least one of whom must be a current/former employer) to the address below by March 12, 2010.
Online applications should be sent to jobs @ aphrc.org with the position applied for written on the subject line.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
APHRC reserves the right to make an appointment at a different grade, or to make an appointment with a modified job description.
The Human Resources Manager
African Population and Health Research Center
P.O. Box 10787-00100 GPO, Nairobi
www.aphrc.org
