Specialist, Data Management

Introduction:

Chartered in 1983, Aga Khan University (AKU) is a private, autonomous, and self-governing international university with 13 teaching sites in 6 countries distributed across three continents. As an integral part of the Aga Khan Development Network, AKU provides higher education in several disciplines, carries out research pertinent to the countries in which it exists and has campuses, programs and/or teaching hospitals in Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, and the UK. As an international institution, AKU operates on the core principles of quality, relevance, impact, and access; and AKU is a model of academic excellence and an agent of social change.

Job Roles/Responsibilities:

The incumbent will be responsible for the supervision of overall quality control and assurance of data for assigned projects/ field sites and will be the primary contact person for all the data management related activities. 

They will also be required to do the following:

• plan, document & verify the project data collection requirements
• communicate & coordinate with programmers for development of data collection / digitization applications
• carry out User acceptance testing for data collection applications and ensure that the outputs are aligned with project requirements
• regularly liase with the research teams/managers to ensure smooth execution of data collection activities
• trouble shoot any issues which may hamper data collection/data quality
• identify and document any possible issues in the data quality  through regular review and running descriptive statistics
• ensures the integrity of research projects data and provide supervision for data quality assurance
• assist data management staff in the overall data management process. As needed, review study database structures and data management project conventions
• provide Support training of field data collection teams

Requirements

You should have/be:

• Masters or Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field
• at least 4 years of experience in related field
• able to use statistical tools like SPSS, STATA  or R
• strong working knowledge of SQL
• strong understanding of data integration, data quality, and data governance best practices
• excellent communication and presentation skills; Experience presenting insights to technical and non-technical colleagues
• willing to travel outside Karachi frequently