Data Manager & Analyst at Field Intelligence

We’re looking for motivated data analyst and manager to support our innovative health system logistics initiatives from our headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. You’ll help collect and manage data from a variety of health and logistics systems to produce the insights that drive our operations, shape our products, and ultimately strengthen health systems. 

Your mission will involve exploring data from operational systems for managerial and product development insights, responding to customer requests for specific extracts and report, and investigating data quality issues alongside our business, technology, and health teams to help identify and diagnose problems and opportunities, develop basic models and management tools for internal and external audiences, inform product and service decisions, and drive real impact at scale.

Required

• Professional experience in automated data analysis and manipulation for medium-large data sets
• Expert-level spreadsheet usage, including descriptive statistical analysis, develop pivot tables, use advanced formulae
• Professional experience in statistical programming (Javascript, Python, R or similar)
• Professional experience conducting data queries and manipulation using SQL and Javascript
• Professional experience using basic statistics for data analysis and decision support (distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.)
• Experience working with nosql databases (preferably couchdb, elasticsearch)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to play multiple roles in a team
• Scientific mindset, and proven ability to decompose and distil complex problems into clear testable components
• A deep curiosity about the live sources and implications of data
• 4+ years work experience in data analysis or related field, including considerable professional experience working in a team
• Strong mathematical background
• High creativity and problem solving abilities
• Language skills: English (fluent)

Preferable

• MS or BA/BS related to statistics, or comparable work experience
• Professional experience using Github as a primary source control system, and git-flow as a primary workflow
• Experience producing data visualizations (D3.js, openLayers)
• Experience applying statistical machine learning techniques to real-world problems
• Experience with business intelligence systems
• Experience with javascript and nosql data sources