A core facet of working in the PDI team centres around rigour. As custodians of data quality for data-centric development projects in the young world, we therefore value trust and transparency above all else. Rigour is carried through from conceptualisation, designing robust data collection tools, real-time quality control all the way to analysis and the dissemination of findings.
The responsibilities of the senior associate role include:
- Project management (budgeting, resource allocation, project coordination)
- Qualitative and quantitative methodology design
- Quality control
- Data collection tool design & digitisation
- Relational database management
- Dashboard development
- Data cleaning & analysis
- Stakeholder engagement with clients, fieldwork partners and key informants
- Dissemination of research findings using various mediums (reports, dashboards, data visualisation, presentations)
- Mapping geographical data
- Leadership and capacity building
Requirements
We specifically would like to hire an experienced professional with a keen interest and love for data who has a passion for doing impactful work across the young world.
Requirements
- Integrity – as custodians of data quality for development projects in the young world, we value trust and transparency above all else.
- At least 5 years of experience in data-driven consulting work (quantitative and/or qualitative)
- Masters degree or higher
- Academic qualifications involving economics, psychology, statistics, monitoring and evaluation, environmental science, development and/or sociology or similar
- Good knowledge of statistics
- Proficiency working with scripted data analysis software (e.g. STATA, SPSS, R or Python)
- Tech-savvy individual excited to work with new digital platforms, with guidance from the DI team (Slack, Airtable, Looker Studio, Google MyMaps)
- Excellent writing ability in English
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
Desirable (advantageous)
- 7 years of experience in data-driven consulting work (quantitative or qualitative)
- French speaking (highly desirable)
- Relational database experience (Airtable, SQL)
- GIS experience/experience using spatial statistics
