Kenya Climate Innovation Center Research and Data Analysis Assistant Jobs

Kenya Climate Innovation Center Research and Data Analysis Assistant Jobs


Organization Background

  • Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) offers incubation, capacity building, and financing options to new, small and medium business ventures and Kenyan entrepreneurs that are developing innovations to address the challenges of climate change. We provide holistic and country-driven support to accelerate the development, deployment, and transfer of locally relevant climate technologies.

  • KCIC is currently implementing AgriBiz, a five-year programme supported by the European Union (EU) and Danida, and the GreenBiz Programme supported by DANIDA. KCIC is recruiting one (1) Research and Data analysis Assistant to be based in Nairobi. The Assistant will help KCIC provide a broad array of research and data analysis support functions to the research, policy and monitoring, and evaluation team.

    Job Summary

  • The Research and Data Analysis Assistant is responsible for supporting new and ongoing projects under the Research and Policy Unit through literature searches, data management, recruitment of study participants, obtaining consents, maintaining files, scheduling and conducting interviews, maintaining data collection files, assisting with data analysis and generating
    correspondences, graphics and reports.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Conduct detailed data exploration and validation from a variety of sources;

    • Develop reports, dashboards, and metrics to monitor the performance of company programmes;

    • Advice and educate business users on interpretation and application of data

    • Conduct data mining, literature reviews, statistical analysis, and data visualization for interpretation of stakeholder interaction with company products and services;

    • Execute surveys by administering questionnaires, conducting physical and follow-up phone interviews with study participants as per the guidelines and procedures of the research project;

    • Conduct quality checks of data entry to ensure accuracy;

    • Coordinate data collection, clean up and preparation of catalogues for various datasets;

    • Undertake advocacy and policy research and analysis for developing
    advocacy materials;

    • Maintain database(s) for the consolidation of data on research and policy initiatives;

    • Develop policy communication materials for diverse platforms as determined by the message and target audiences;

    • Support documentation of reports and other materials extracting information from various sources and activities;

    • Coordinate different types of meetings, including policy dialogues, knowledge cafes;

    • Assist with general programme and administrative work, including background research, data entry, and internal reporting.

    • Summarize and present critical findings to cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.

    Qualification and Experience

    • At least a Bachelor’s degree in economics, statistics or any other field.

    • One year experience in research projects and policy analysis.

    • Experience in data analysis using SPSS, STATA among others

    Functional and Behavioral Skills

    • Must be a team player

    • Must be a person of high integrity.

    • Strong writing and presentation skills

    • Must have excellent analytical skills

    • Must have excellent report writing skills.

    • Ability to translate business requirements into logical data models;

    • Excellent analytical skills and commitment to continuous product and process improvement;

    • Willingness to learn new skills and grow in the position;

    • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

    How to Apply

  • For more information and job application details, see; Kenya Climate Innovation Center Research and Data Analysis Assistant Jobs


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