Ethiopian Public Health Institute/EPHI/would like to invite qualified, competent and interested applicant for the Statisticians or Data Analysts positions.
Background
National Information Platforms for Nutrition (NIPN) is an initiative of the European Commission supported by the United Kingdom Department for International Development and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The initiative aims to strengthen national capacity to manage and analyse information and data from all sectors which have an influence on nutrition and to disseminate and use the information so as to better inform the strategic decisions countries are faced with to prevent undernutrition and its consequences. The Delegation of the European Union is funding a project to set up a National Information Platform for Nutrition in [country]. The project is being implemented by [contracting organisations], in partnership with [partner organisations] and in collaboration with [other organisations involved]. A Global Support Facility (GSF) has been set up by the European Commission to coordinate the NIPN initiative, managed by the Agrinatura alliance and hosted by Agropolis International, in Montpellier, France. The GSF will provide support to the NIPN team in [country] throughout project implementation.
Main duties and responsibilities:
The [recruiting organisations] is seeking [number] qualified Statisticians or experienced Data Analysts to work on the NIPN project within the NIPN Analysis Unit under the supervision of the Head of the Analysis Unit. Their role is to undertake the statistician analysis of data to help answer the questions posed by the NIPN advisory committee. These questions will be related to the role and impact of policies, programmes and interventions in all sectors to improving human nutrition and to tracking changes in nutrition indicators and factors that may influence nutrition over time and in space. The work of the Statisticians/Data Analysts will be guided by a Senior Analysis Advise and may be undertaken in collaboration with technical advisors from sectors working on specific analysis projects. The Statisticians/Data Analysts will join a small team working in the [host institution of the Analysis Unit] to collect, aggregate, merge data sets for analysis as well as creating new data sets of summary statistics for presentation in data dashboards.
Detailed description of duties and responsibilities:
The work of the Statisticians/Data Analysts will involve: Cleaning data and methodically assessing its quality before analysis; Merging data sets or creating new data sets for analysis;
Creating or deriving new variables from existing data sets; Labelling variables and ensuring that they are accurately described; Assessing the distribution of variables so that the most appropriate statistical tests are applied; Analyzing data using statistical software such as Stata or R by applying the most appropriate and robust statistical methods and sampling weights; Creating, annotating and maintaining syntax files of analysis that records all changes made to variables and the statistical procedures applied
Reporting to: Head of the Analysis Unit
Quantity: 1 (One)
Qualifications and Experience:
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