Job Title: Information Analyst(part-time
to full-time flexible)
Salary: Negotiable depending on qualifications and experience
Location: Nairobi
Start Date: Immediate
Competition Closing: Dec 1, 2011
Position Overview
‘The Client’ is a social enterprise that offers comprehensive professional information services to government agencies, regulatory bodies, and private organizations globally.
‘The Client’ offers analysts an opportunity to work on projects with high
public impact in an environment that is exciting, innovative, and flexible. Salary: Negotiable depending on qualifications and experience
Location: Nairobi
Start Date: Immediate
Competition Closing: Dec 1, 2011
Position Overview
‘The Client’ is a social enterprise that offers comprehensive professional information services to government agencies, regulatory bodies, and private organizations globally.
‘The Client’ analysts have an opportunity to work on a wide range of projects and in a direct program-influencing capacity that they would not normally experience in traditional academic and government employment settings.
‘The Client’s organizational competencies include:
- Health
and Human Services
- Program
Management
- Information
Analysis
- Information
Management
- Information
Infrastructure
- Information
Policy and Privacy
‘The Client’ is seeking an information analyst
to support data management, data validation and data analysis activities across
a range of health and human services projects.
Required Abilities
Required Abilities
- To
communicate in a clear and organized manner, both verbally and in writing
- To
analyze, organize and synthesize data, contextual information, ideas, and
concepts, so that they can be presented and communicated clearly
- To
conduct literature reviews
- To
manage, assess, validate, integrate and analyze a variety of large and
small data sets using SAS or STATA statistical software
- To
thoroughly and clearly document analytic methods and findings
- To
work effectively with a multi-disciplinary team of health and information
professionals
- To
demonstrate a commitment to quality, problem solving, client service and
responsiveness
Minimum Qualifications and Personal
Requirements
- MSc
in statistics, epidemiology, economics, or other comparable analytic field
of study
- Ability
to work under pressure and deadlines
- Ability
to work effectively with clients and team members from other disciplines
- Ability
to travel to a client work location in Kenya (infrequent)
- Flexibility
to occasionally work evenings and/or weekends depending on project
circumstances
- Ability
to work efficiently and independently at home
- Good
internet connectivity at home
Assets (Non-Essential)
- Ability
to design research studies within the context of actual health programs
and services
- Ability
to prepare manuscripts for publication
- Ability
to program and write scripts in SAS, STATA
- Ease
with numeric methods and management of large data sets
- Familiarity
with information privacy concepts, guidelines and standards
- Familiarity
with database concepts and data modeling
- Familiarity
with business intelligence concepts, methods, and tools including:
- Integration
of data from a variety of sources using SSIS
- Implementation
of OLAP cubes and other analytic data structures using SSAS
- Design
of reports using SSRS
Deadline: 5th of November 2011
Applications:
Please send an up to date CV, stating your current salary, accompanied by at least 3 referee telephone numbers/email addresses to:
recruit@summitrecruitment-kenya.com
Summit recruitment & Training,
Rhino House, Karen Road, Karen
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Please indicate in your email which position you are interested in.
Only applicants who are successful will be contacted.
Please do not apply if you do not meet the requirements of the job
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