ILRI Vacancy: Data Analyst (Closing 15 January 2013)

Vacancy Number:DA/PGI/12/12
Department:Poverty, Gender and Innovations
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Duration: 2-year fixed contract

General: The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality livestock science, communications and capacity building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development. ILRI is one of 15 Centres of the CGIAR Consortium. ILRI has campuses in Kenya (headquarters) and Ethiopia, with offices located in other regions of Africa (Mali, Mozambique, and Nigeria) as well as in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam) and East Asia (China). www.ilri.org

CGIAR is a global agricultural research partnership for a food-secure future.Its science is carried out by 15 research centres that are members of the CGIAR Consortium in collaboration with hundreds of partner organizations. www.cgiar.org

The Position: The Poverty, Gender and Innovations theme is seeking to recruit a Data Analyst to create and manage the literature data base. She/he will also be tasked with assisting in conducting literature reviews, data analysis and preparing various kinds of reports as assigned.

 Key responsibilities:

• Assist in conducting literature reviews.
• Build, organize and maintain databases of the literature sourced into a database for literature.
• Contributing to qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
• Assist in organizing workshops, conferences and meetings.
• Assist in drafting reports, minutes of meetings and any other write ups assigned.
• Performing other duties/tasks as required and/or assigned.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Communication, Sociology, Anthropology or other relevant Social Science degree.
• At least two years’ experience in conducting literature searches using various search engines.
• Strong computer skills, including high level of proficiency with MS Word, MS PowerPoint  and MS Excel.
• Ability to do basic qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
• Ability to work well in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Good presentation and oral/written communication and skills.
• Superior multi-tasking skills with the ability to coordinate, prioritize and organize tasks to meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Willingness to learn new skills.

Terms of Appointment: This is a Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position based at ILRI’s Nairobi campus with frequent travel to the field and is open to Kenyan nationals only. The position is on a 2-year fixed contract subject to satisfactory performance and availability of funding.

Job level and salary: This position is job level 2B with a starting gross salary of KES 75,833 per month. The benefits package includes pension, medical and other insurances within ILRI’s Nationally Recruited Staff Scheme.

Location: The position will be based at the ILRI campus Nairobi, Kenya.

Applicants should send a cover letter and CV combined as one document addressed the Human Resources Director, explaining their interest in the position, what they can bring to the job and the names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience by 15 January 2013.  Log on to:  http://www.myjobsinkenya.com/ilri_jobs to apply.

The position title and reference number REF: DA/PGI/12/12 should be clearly marked on the subject line. Only online applications will be considered, and only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Closing date: January 15 , 2013

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