Data Officer – Makerere University

October 15, 2023

Job Title: Data Officer

Organization: Makerere University School of Public Health

Duty Station: Hoima

Roles and responsibilities:

Reports to the Surveillance Officer
Coordinate and supervise all activities of the data management department
Responsible for data collection, management, and reporting.
Contribute to the designing and implementation data collection tools, and integrity algorithms for all Crane Survey activities.
Develop analysis programs to evaluate and improve the validity, accuracy and timeliness of data collection using specific software (SAS/SQL/PHP/SPSS/STATA/ EXCEL/R)
Provide support in maintaining the IT infrastructure.
Responsible for providing training to respondents and other IT personnel in the use of interviewing software for capturing data.
Responsible for any other duty as needed within your scope of work.

Minimum qualifications:

At least Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information technology
Experience, skills, and other requirements
Excellent programming skills with visual studio, SQL, Excel
Experience in Applications Development
Data base programing and ability to visualize data in Power BI or excel
Sound knowledge of data management, quality control and data analysis
Good organizational skills
Self-driven and team player
Multi-lingual communication ability is added advantage
Must have up-to-date GCP (CITI) and Human subject protection certification