Duration: Six months with possible extension

Required number = 2

Report to: Food Science and Nutrition Research Directorate

Job Description:

The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) strives to address nutrition and health-related problems by conducting intervention-based research and contributing to the effective implementation of the Health Policy in Ethiopia. To this end, the Food Science and Nutrition Research Directorate is planning to implement a National Hygiene and Environmental Health status survey. This survey will serve as a baseline for the implementation of the Environmental health Strategy. The data managers will have the following responsibilities and requirements.

Job Requirements

Educational status: MSc/MPH in Epidemiology, Statistics, Biostatistics or Public Health experience in data is advantageous. 

Work Experiences: 10 Years’ experience with Bsc or 8 Years of experiences with Msc degree

Desired Competencies

• Practical Stata software experience is mandatory for this position
• Be familiar with local and international research ethics
• Be able to use statistical software such as SPSS, R or SAS etc has additional advantage.
• Demonstrated research communication and interpersonal communication skills

Responsibilities:

• Work on the data center of EPHI to manage the data
• Design forms for receiving, processing, or tracking the data
• Track the flow of data through electronic forms transfers
• Prepare appropriate formatting to datasets as requested
• Processing the data for quality control
• Daily follow of the real time data collection and give feedback to field data collectors and supervisors
• Develop analysis plan for hygiene and environmental health related dataset
• Clean the collected dataset
• Develop syntax for analysis and draft dummy tables
• Report to project coordinators on daily basis
• Conduct supportive supervision to support field data collectors
• Conduct quality control and consistency checking procedures periodically when the data collection is on progress
• Communicating the data collection team for quality control when the need arises
• Conduct any troubleshooting procedures for the field data collection team when there is a need
• Assist EPHI research staff in conducting overall survey data management
• Strength the capacity of EPHI research staff in database programming and data analysis skills
• Assist EPHI in training and ensure that field practice with review of results in an integral part of any survey training
• Central level oversight of field work is established to validate supervisor reports and data quality
• Check for data consistency and produce tables and analysis results as per the survey requirement
• Prepare data analysis listing and activity, performance, or progress reports
• Analyze the data using appropriate statistical tools
• Work closely with the principal investigator of the project and the research staff of EPHI
• Assist EPHI and fully participate in the technical report writing of the research
• Any other related assignments requested by EPHI Or Project PI

How to Apply

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Remarks: Please attach copies of transcripts, academic degree or recommendation letters together with the application.