Data Analyst Job at Sightsavers

Sightsavers is an international organisation that changes lives for the long term. We work in more than 30 countries to eliminate avoidable blindness and support people with visual impairments to live independently.

Due to strategy and expansion reasons, we are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Data Analyst
Req ID: 1385
Job Location: Abuja (Remote)
Employment Type: Contract (24-month Fixed Term)
Hours: This is a full-time role with some flexibility around hours worked

About the role

• Sightsavers is looking for a Data Analyst with International Development programmatic experience and who has worked with inclusive data and DHIS2.
• You will be extracting meaningful information, producing reports and dashboards to deadlines, providing training and support to colleagues across the international organisation.
• This is a technical role and someone with experience of Sightsavers key thematic areas of eye health, education, social inclusion and NTDs would be particularly of interest.

Some key duties include:

• Support the development and production of quarterly and annual dashboards and data reports, using Power BI, Excel and DHIS2-based approaches, for dissemination across the organisation
• Conduct data analysis on Sightsavers projects
• Strengthen country office data reporting systems
• Work with country offices to map and improve project data flows.

Essential experience and skills for this role

• Graduate level qualification or equivalent work-based experience in statistics, information systems, international development, public health or any other with a core statistical/analytical component.
• Proven successful track record of working with organisational data management systems and applying data analysis/statistical techniques to data (within health, education, international development or other fields directly related to Sightsavers’ thematic portfolio).
• Experience of digital transformation, implementing new software/tools/working practices within an organization.
• Proficient in the use of Power BI, Tableau or other data visualisation software.
• Experience of using Power Query for extraction, transformation, loading and connecting data from different data sources.
• Practical experience of good data quality and data cleaning practices to prepare data sets for use in analytics software.
• Experience of capacity building and supporting staff in different contexts (face to face, online) to deliver organisational data collection to deadlines
• Understanding of international development issues and a commitment to equality of opportunity for disabled people.
• Practical experience of DHIS2 for data collection, reporting and visualisation
• Able to work with multiple stakeholders and ensure differing concerns and priorities are effectively managed.
• Fluent in English, with experience of writing reports and briefings in English

Desirable experience and skills:

• Master’s degree in international development, international relations, geography, statistics or appropriate equivalent.
• French and/or Portuguese language skills.