Job Title: Nigeria Data Quality Officer
Location: Minna, Niger
Job Description:
- One Acre Fund is a data-driven environment that invests heavily in quality systems to answer the most important questions facing our organization.
- We always aim to create more impact on farmers who participate in our program and this is made possible by the efficient and creative Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) department.
- The MEL Coordinator will support the department by creating high-quality surveys in CommCare, ensuring high-quality data, and assisting with data cleaning and analysis tasks.
- The MEL Coordinator will communicate with the field team to solve technical survey challenges and work with office-based staff to support the development and implementation of MEL systems and quality reports.
Responsibilities
Data Quality:
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- Conduct weekly error checking analysis for all ongoing surveys
- Keep a running error tracker and communicate with the field team to understand and correct errors
- Analyze back check data and communicate results to the field team to help improve data quality
- Communicate error check and backcheck results to the field team and management to improve data quality
Survey Design in CommCare:
- Design all surveys in CommCare and ensure all data quality controls (display conditions, validation conditions, warning messages) are in place before the start of each survey
- Work with department leadership to ensure that all survey protocols are implemented in CommCare
- Test all surveys before data collection
- Respond to feedback from the field team and improve CommCare surveys based on challenges during survey implementation
- Troubleshoot CommCare challenges, including case management issues
- Stay up-to-date with CommCare features, and ensure surveys incorporate all needed features for maximum efficiency and high data quality
Data Cleaning & Analysis:
- Perform data cleaning for core surveys in Stata; maintain well-documented do-files
- Analyze quantitative summary statistics in Excel and/or Stata and prepare results tables for results communication
- Conduct routine data analysis on transportation fees and other budgetary items
- Perform qualitative data analysis of focus group and interview transcripts
Track Performance:
- Maintain the MEL team’s goals Tracker: keep track of survey completion rates, back check completion rates, and survey errors and corrections
- Compile and synthesize data from JG1 & JG2 performance reviews
- Keep track of inventory and resolve technical problems with tablets
- Translate and back-translated surveys; occasionally translate qualitative and quantitative data and results
- Other tasks needed by the department
Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
- Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 2 – 5 years relevant experience.
- Strong work experiences. Examples include a demanding professional work experience or successful entrepreneurial experience.
- Two years minimum practical experience working on data collection in a rural setting.
- Understanding of best practices in experimental design concepts, such as control group selection and randomization.
- Demonstrated leadership experience at work, or outside of work, enthusiasm for learning, and.
- Educational background in statistics, economics, population studies, development studies, monitoring and evaluation, project management, or any other relevant field of study with an understanding of quantitative and qualitative research.
- Fluency in Microsoft excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets), specifically:
- Design basic data-entry spreadsheets (can perform complex functions) in “database format” (observations horizontally across, 1 variable per column) with useful data validation.
- Extract summary statistics using pivot Tables and ExcelFormulae.
- Conduct analysis using statistics, logic, and validation formulae.
- Experience creating survey tools for field data collection and managing a field-based research team.
- Knowledge of electronic data collection platforms (e.g. ODK, SurveyCTO, CommCare).
- Preferably experience with statistical software packages such as SPSS, Stata, or R.
- Experience mentoring others to support their professional development.
- Build teams and work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
- Languages: English (required), Hausa an added advantage.
Career Growth and Development:
- We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people.
- You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance.
- We hold career reviews every six months and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals.
- You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.
Benefits
- Health Insurance, paid time off.
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Job Features
Job Category | Inventory/Data Entry/Records |