Sightsavers implements projects in over 30 countries in Africa and South Asia working to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote the rights of people with disabilities.
Location: Nigeria
Contract:12-month fixed term contract
Salary: Local Terms and Conditions apply
Responsibilities
- Lead the daily collection, organisation, and verification of project data, ensuring accuracy and security
- Establish and maintain data protocols, preparing daily reports and identifying issues for review
- Facilitate the transmission of LGA-level data into relevant tools, providing bi-weekly updates
- Ensure effective use of CommCare across field operations, resolving technical challenges promptly
- Organise and refine data from CommCare and KoboToolbox, integrating information for practical use
- Analyse data to identify trends and key findings, informing project decisions
- Collaborate with Data Analysts to produce reports, enabling partners to assess project performance
- Present recommendations and projections based on data during meetings and briefings
- Maintain Power BI dashboards to illustrate project progress and distribute monthly updates
- Create visual representations to highlight critical results and prepare presentations for partners
- Design and conduct training sessions for staff on data tools, providing support and instructional materials
- Monitor the performance of staff involved in data-related activities, ensuring compliance and timely submission
- Engage with partners to standardise data methods and tools, improving project efficiency
- Work with the NTD MEL Manager to prepare data for analysis and ensure its accuracy for reporting
- Collaborate during review meetings, delivering updates on data quality and project advancements
- Support monitoring of child health outcomes, ensuring data meets project requirements
- Foster productive relationships with authorities and partners, ensuring seamless data exchange
This is a highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the Job Description for full details.
Jobholder Requirements
Essential:
- Possession of a bachelor’s degree in data science, Public Health, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related discipline
- Experience in data management, including at least three years within health-related projects such as child survival, AMR, and/or MDA initiatives
- Demonstrated expertise in training, supervising, and coordinating with diverse stakeholders on data-focused tasks
- Advanced proficiency in ODK, CommCare, KoboToolbox and/or DHIS2 for managing health data
- Ability to clean, validate, and standardise (Extract, Transform and Load [ETL]) data for analysis
- Proficiency in Power BI or similar tools to present data clearly; knowledge of mapping tools (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS) is advantageous
- Basic proficiency in Python or SQL to enhance data processing efficiency
- Understanding of tools such as QGIS or ArcGIS for geographical data representation
- Strong capability in Excel for data-related activities
- Networking and influencing both within and outside the organisation
- Consistently strives to achieve high standards of performance and responds positively to change
- Communicates confidently and effectively with colleagues and partners
- Gathers relevant information and uses effective reasoning to make timely decisions
- Prioritises activities and develops plans to achieve them, monitoring own progress
- Gets things done, can be relied upon to do what they say they will, and is committed to achieving good quality work to agreed standards
- Understands how their work impacts on others and contributes positively to a global team
Desirable:
- Knowledge of advocacy, research, partnership development, and understanding of the Polio Platform and Nigerian Health System
How to Apply:
To apply for this exciting new opportunity, please complete an application using the link provided below:
https://careers.sightsavers.org/jobs/1502?lang=en-us
As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.