Job Description
With the guidance of senior staff, assist in the development of the data management and reporting plan.
• Program ETL (extract, transform and load) R scripts and packages to automate the following tasks:
– Extract case report form (CRF) data from source ;
– Enforce quality and consistency standards ;
– Reconcile and merge data from disparate sources ;
– Transform data into tidy relational formats fit for analysis and visualization.
• Assist in the development of automated data reports using R-Markdown.
• Assist in the development of interactive monitoring dashboards using R Shiny.
• Document the technical details of your work Clearly to facilitate collaboration with other team members and ensure quality control.
• Act as a technical expert with the data entry teams in the field and be able to fulfill ad-hoc data requests from project stakeholders.
• Take analyses that have been previously completed in less flexible software packages (e.g., Excel) and implement them in R.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, statistics or related fields with a strong applied quantitative component.
• 1-5 years of related work experience. Work or internship experience in public health data science strongly preferred.
• Strong proficiency in R programming with the Tidyverse suite of packages (required), developing and testing R.
• packages (required), developing web-applications with R Shiny (preferred) and experience with SQL databases (preferred).
• Experience in collaborating on technical projects using distributed version control with git.
• Experience in working with and managing large data sets, including merging of disparate data sets, data cleaning and transformations, and providing preliminary descriptive statistics.
• Appreciation for the fundamentals of effective data visualization.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• GitHub portfolio or other accessible code samples desired. ü Flexible working hours.
• Fluent in French and English.
Additional Information
What you will get ?
• You will work with a multicultural team in the field of epidemiology and clinical research.
• You will evolve in the humanitarian environment.
• Your contributions and ideas will be valued and highly appreciated.
• You will participate in the life of the organization and your responsibilities will evolve over time.
• Fixed-term contract of 12 months, renewable, with healthcare coverage.
• Position to start in May 2024.
• Position based in Mbarara, with travel to Kampala and Paris if needed.
• Remuneration according to experience and MSF/Epicentre salary grid.
• The work location could be Uganda or Niger.
Job application procedure
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More Information
- Address Mbarara, Uganda, East Africa
