Institutional Data Manager at IITA - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

Ref No: IITA-HR-NRS2016-045
Location: Ibadan
Recruitment Type: National (3-year renewable contract) 

Responsibilities
Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:

• Advice project managers and project data manager on data management issues;
• Serve as major contributor in writing procedural guidelines and workflow descriptions on project in collaboration with SharePoint designer (creating and refining project/unit SP-site template;
• Guide in writing project/unit data management plans;
• Seek approval of project/unit data management plans;
• Facilitate project data management discussion and also travel to other countries for data management coordination;
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Qualification

• MSc in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or any other related field with at least ten (10) years relevant experience in data management, research or project development.

Competencies
Ideal Candidate must have;

• Excellent data management skills
• Strong sense and information/data protection
• Excellent MS Office skills including MS Access and MS Project
• Experience in using SharePoint or proven ability to learn it quickly
• Good personality with excellent communication skills
• Good team working skills and must be able to share all relevant information with colleagues and users pro-actively at the right time
• Good manners in showing flexibility, respect, friendliness and openness in cooperation.
• Good training and learning skills