Employer: African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)
Deadline: June 11, 2008.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Design data entry screens
Test and correct errors in existing data entry screens
Design relational databases, tables, views and stored procedures for new research projects
Train Data Entry Clerks and address programming issues encountered during data entry
Write Views to retrieve data for analysis and convert data to formats required by researchers
Coordinate and monitor quality control measures, including double data entry activities
Design and update programs to generate various reports from the database
Produce regular data entry performance indicators
Enforce and monitor consistency checks in the data base
Perform basic data cleaning in the data base following data entry
Manage the SQL data base
Support Data Entry Clerks supervisors in managing the data entry process
Perform general administrative activities in the absence of the Data Manager
Essential:
A BSc. degree in Computer Science or in a data and information management related discipline. Non-graduates with extensive knowledge and experience of programming in Visual Basic 6.0 and SQL will be considered
Good understanding of MS Windows programming
Object Oriented Programming skills using Visual Basic 6.0
Experience in designing and developing large relational databases preferably using Microsoft SQL server
Skills in SQL based programming especially for data manipulation
Knowledge of EPI-INFO or any other data management application
Good communication and supervisory skills
Desirable:
Report writing skills
Please apply enclosing a detailed CV, quoting current and expected salary and providing contact details of three referees to;
The Human Resources Manager African Population and Health Research Center P.O. Box 10787-00100 GPO Nairobi
Online applications should be sent to jobs[at]aphrc.org with the position applied for written on the subject line.
