Position Summary
- The Data Manager will be an essential member of IPA’s Global
Research and Data Support (GRDS) team and will play a leading role in
providing technical support to IPA’s country offices and research
projects. This involves fielding support requests, managing and providing
coding services, mentoring coding specialists, and liaising with country
offices. The Data Manager will also lead efforts to enforce research
quality standards and to publish research data.
Responsibilities
30% Global Technical Support Management
- Coordinate global requests for coding services, including
building Scopes of Work and delegating tasks to other coding
specialists.
- Centrally manage global research support and troubleshooting
requests.
- Liaise with country offices, particularly to provide technical
mentorship to coding specialists.
30%Technical Support
- Provide advanced coding services directly to projects,
particularly in SurveyCTO and Stata.
- Technical outputs such as SurveyCTO forms and Stata
do-files
- Support outputs such as troubleshooting resolutions and ticket
responses
- Provision of support such as office hours and
one-on-one’s
30%Data Quality Standards
- Enforce research quality standards through setting standards,
auditing research projects, and regularly assessing offices’ technical
readiness.
- Reports on country office performance and research protocol
compliance
10%Research Transparency and Publication
- Lead research transparency efforts, including publishing
datasets.
- Contribute to research resource development as needed.
- Provide technical support to other IPA projects, products, and
initiatives as needed.
- Undertake various other activities as directed by the
supervisor as needed.
- Publication of datasets
- Contributions to ongoing technical projects with GRDS
Qualifications
Required
- At least five years of work experience.
- Excellent collaboration skills, with both internal and
external collaborators.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to plan resources and actions to ensure timely and
efficient service delivery.
- Ability to lead and to maintain effective working
relationships in a multicultural environment with sensitivity and respect
for diversity.
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in economics, Statistics,
Social Sciences, or equivalent.
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, particularly in
Excel.
- Advanced proficiency in SurveyCTO and Stata.
Preferred
- Master’s degree in economics, Statistics, Social Sciences, or
equivalent.
- Experience managing a randomized control trial.
- Ability to work in one (or more) of the following software
programs or languages: Python, R, Twilio, PowerBI, Java, SQL, VBA, GIS,
and GitHub.
- Ability to work in one (or more) of the following languages:
Spanish, French, Swahili.
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