Specialist (Data Analyst), Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health

Requirements:

You should have:

• BSC in Statistics/Economics or any other relevant field;

• 2 to 3 years of experience preferably in the field of Research and handling large scale studies/surveys.

• excellent Command on STATA/R/SPSS and other Statistical Packages;
• proficient in Spreadsheets and power point presentation;
• sound knowledge of Databases and programming;

• strong verbal and written communication skills.
  

  Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.

Specialist (Data Analyst) Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health

Entity:Aga Khan University

Location:Karachi

Introduction to the Aga Khan University:

The Aga Khan University is a private international university committed to international standards of excellence in teaching research and service. Its teaching hospital the Aga Khan University Hospital has been accredited by the prestigious Joint Commission International for achieving the highest international healthcare standards.

As an equal opportunity employer AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty staff trainees volunteers beneficiaries wider communities and other stakeholders with whom it works including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

This is a grant-funded contractual position.

Job Role / Responsibilities:

The incumbent will be responsible for supervision of statistical aspects of research projects including study design protocol development sample size estimation subject randomization statistical analyses and presentation of data. Specific responsibilities include to:

• Statistical Analysis;
• supervise the statistical aspects of research projects including study design protocol development sample size estimation subject randomization statistical analyses and presentation of data;
• supervise and conduct statistical analyses and interpret results of analyses for research studies. Maintain consistent analytical approaches and reporting formats within and across studies;
• understand and use advance statistical software packages. As needed writes programs to select retrieve manipulate edit and analyze data.
• measure and improve the statistical process;
• development process faster and smoother;
• clear milestones documentations and deadlines;
• contribution to the project protocols and data collection tools;
• review all project protocols and data collection tools to ensure that collected data meet projects needs statistical and scientific requirements;
• assist data management staff in the design of study databases. As needed reviews study database structures and data management project conventions. Reviews and writes error checking specifications for projects as per need;

• improved standards tooling and processes;

• provides support for data presentation;
• provides support for data presentation for publication of research studies results;
• ensures the integrity of research projects data and provide supervision for data quality assurance;
• convey effectively with all task progress evaluations suggestions schedules along with technical and process issues;
• proper documentations and deployment of project without any bugs;
• train and support the on-going development of web applications/dashboard among team of analysts/ supervisors;
• training and support the ongoing development of analytic competencies among team of data analysts/data supervisors;
• provide Support in arranging workshops/seminars;
• capacity building and trained staff;
• conduct lectures/sessions for clinicians and researchers on study designs sampling data management and statistical analysis plan;
• national and international travelling as per the requirement of project.