The African Population & Health Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to conducting high quality and policy relevant research on population, health, education and development issues facing sub-Saharan Africa.

The Center seeks to fill the position of Data Systems Manager.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and/or maintenance of highly efficient data management systems for all data collected at the Center;
• Manage database programmers to ensure they develop high quality software applications for various projects;
• Determine and facilitate the acquisition of resources needed to complete work in a timely and cost-effective manner;
• Lead efforts to develop new data capture tools that utilize new technologies, especially in the area of electronic data collection;
• Provide leadership in the development of work scheduling tools to allow planning of data processing activities;
• Ensure software applications and databases are developed and maintained to internationally approved standards;
• Ensure data quality checks are developed and implemented;
• Oversee data entry and filing processes;
• Ensure preliminary cleaned data is available to data analysts for further cleaning and preparation of analytical data sets; and
• Manage staff in the data processing unit and provide oversight for data processing.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree in information sciences, computer science or related area;
• 7 years’ post qualification experience, preferably in a research institution;
• Excellent leadership skills;
• Excellent writing and presentation skills; and
• Experience managing longitudinal data management systems is desirable.

Interested candidates are invited to send via email, their letter of application and CV with contact details of three referees to jobs@aphrc.org. Please, indicate “Data Systems Manager” on the subject line of the email. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. This position will remain open until the right candidate is identified.

Cover letters should be addressed to:

The Human Resources Officer
African Population and Health Research Center, Inc
APHRC Campus, Manga Close, off Kirawa Road, Kitisuru
P.O. Box 10787-GPO, Nairobi

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