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  • Posted: Apr 14, 2021
    Deadline: Apr 15, 2021
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  • The African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) is a Network of public health training institutions in Africa that seeks to strengthen manpower to enhance health systems on the continent. AFENET is a not-for-profit organization which works closely with Ministries of Health in member countries to develop sustainable programs and capacity to strengthen field e...
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    Dashboard / Visualization Developer in R / Shiny (Consultancy) - 3 positions

    Project Description

    • The consultant will be responsible for turning datasets into interactive dashboards, and supporting the cleaning and structure of these datasets to be incorporated into the dashboards.
    • The consultant will also be expected to know and apply best-practice design principles, and advise on design and implementation considerations.
    • Additionally, the consultant should provide mentorship and guidance to other staff, both within AFENET team and to external stakeholders.
    • This may include but not limited to preparing and delivering training, presentations; or ad-hoc support to resolve coding problems.

    Project Responsibilities

    • Develop, maintain and deploy the front and backend code of the Shiny applications
    • Cooperate with Product Owner, product team, and other developers from the team.
    • Troubleshoot and bug fix issues reported by the technical team
    • Create and maintain documentation

    Qualifications

    • Minimum Bachelor degree or higher in one of the related fields (Computer Science, Data Science, Health Informatics, Computer Engineering, and Mathematical Engineering ) or related field; or equivalent work-related experience

    Required Skills:

    • Excellent programming skills in R
    • Expertise in Functional and object-oriented programming in R
    • Good knowledge of R package structure
    • Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with Shiny
    • framework.
    • Hands-on experience with data visualization in R (ggplot2, plotly)
    • Excellent experience developing interactive dashboards using Shiny package; applications should include links to portfolio and role in developing project
    • Additional experience in enterprise software development and languages a plus; as are experience using other prominent visualization tools (such as D3, Tableau, Power BI, Qlik)
    • Graphic design skills a plus
    • Experience with good software engineering practices, including unit testing, technical
    • documentation, code encapsulation and version control systems (Git)
    • Basic knowledge of Continuous Integration principles and tools
    • Experience working in diverse and geographically distributed teams
    • Being a self-starter and problem solver; able to work independently; and comply with multiple, tight deadlines; and deliver highest quality results; applications should include references, which will be checked
    • Creative, innovative problem solver: ability to turn data into compelling visualizations with the programming mettle to solve intractable problems to achieve results through beautiful code
    • Excellent communication, advanced English reading, writing, listening and speaking

    Nice to have skills:

    • Knowledge of (bio)statistics and / or bioinformatics
    • Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. Docker) and Linux shell

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    Method of Application

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    You application should contain the following:

    • CV
    • Motivation letter, including discussion of understanding of assignment(s)
    • Selected example(s) of related projects (dashboards, visualizations, web sites, web-tools) with URLs
    Interested and qualified? Go to African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) on vacancy.afenetnigeria.net to apply

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