EPHI - JOB DESCRIPTION

REPORTING TO: Nutrition, Environmental Health and Non-Communicable Disease Research Directorate

LOCATION: Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Addis Ababa

NUMBER: 1

Main Duties Include:

•  The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) strives to address nutrition and health-related problems by conducting intervention-based research and contributing to the effective implementation of the Health and Food and Nutrition Policies in Ethiopia. To this end, the Nutrition, Environmental Health and Non-Communicable Disease Research Directorate is planning to recruit a data analyst or data manager on a contract basis.
• The work of the Data Analyst or data manger will be guided by a Senior researcher or project PI. He/She will join EPHI to manage ENABLE project trial data, aggregate, and merge data sets for analysis as well as create new data sets of summary statistics for presentation and report.
• The “Enabling environments for NCD risk reduction in Ethiopia” (ENABLE) project is funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe (Grant agreement ID: 101137232). ENABLE aims to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Ethiopia by reducing the life-long prevalence of major NCD risk factors among pregnant women through multi-level actions to promote healthy diets, physical activity and reduce exposure to air pollution in a clean and supportive urban environment. The ENABLE project is dedicated to the implementation of pragmatic and effective interventions for promoting healthy diets, physical activity and reduce exposure to air pollution within a health-promoting urban environment for pregnant women and their families from the antenatal care entry point, as well as from the community. EPHI and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), and the consortium is comprised of 9 more international and Ethiopian partners. From Ethiopia, Jimma University (JU), Haramaya University (HU) and Addis Continental Institute of Public Health (ACIPH), along with international partners from University of Oslo (UiO), Lund University (LU), Uppsala University (UU), Wageningen University (WU), Vital Strategies, and Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR)
• The work of the Data Analyst/data manger will involve: 
• Coordinate the research data activities under senior research supervision
• Prepare on data management plan, report and manuscript writing 
• Travel to field for data collection and supervision. 
• Contributes to proposal development and proposals for institutional review board.
• Coordinate field travels and required logistics.
• Prepare weekly plan and report the same to the project focal.
• Monitor whether the project’s planned activities are going as scheduled or not. 
• Participating in regular discussions with other project team members, project consultants and donors.
• Engage in other relevant assignments assigned by project coordinators for the successful deliver of project output.
• Daily follow of the real time data collection and give feedback to field data collectors and supervisors
• Develop analysis plan of trial
• Clean the collected dataset 
• Develop data dictionary for collected dataset and develop metadata
• Develop syntax for analysis and draft dummy tables.
• Analyse data using statistical software such as STATA or R by applying the most appropriate and robust statistical methods and sampling weights; 
• Conduct various statistical analysis that include:
• Cleaning data and methodically assessing its quality before analysis; 
• Merging data sets or creating new data sets for analysis; 
• Creating or deriving new variables from existing data sets; 
• Assessing the distribution of variables so that the most appropriate statistical tests are applied;
• Creating, annotating and maintaining syntax files of analysis that record all changes made to variables and the statistical procedures applied so that they can be checked and repeated; 
• Methodically storing and cataloguing the syntax files, the output files and any history file of analysis to create a record of the analysis done; 
• Creating tables of results and statistical output; 
• Creating maps of the distribution of variables;
• Creating graphs and figures to present data; 
• Applying best practices in data processing, management and analysis.
• Engage in other activities as needed.

Duration: 6-12 months with possible extension

Salary: As per the scale of the ministry of finance

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• PhD or MSc in public health, biostatistics, Epidemiology
• eight years’ experience for MSc holders; six years for PhD holder of work organising and analysing large datasets or clinical trial, ideally health or nutritional in origin, using statistical software.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Experience in using statistical software is required; experience with STATA and/or R statistical software would be an advantage.
• An ability to write reports of the analysis done in English.
• Knowledge and experience about food composition, food sample collection, analysis and reporting.
• A proven research experience with demonstrated
• Demonstrated ability to publish research findings, priority will be given to candidate with publications.

How To Apply

Application Process        

Interested candidates are invited to submit their up-to-date curriculum vitae (CV), copy of their credentials, and application letter through Ethiojobs website 

Applicants should clearly indicate “ the position” in the subject line of their application letters.  

Ethiopian Public Health Institute is committed to the fundamental principles of equal employment opportunity. Women are highly encouraged to apply.  

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,