Data Analyst

Reports to: MEL Director

Period of work: 60 calendar days

Location: Abuja

Background

• The Data Analyst will provide data analytical services to the USAID Feed the Future Nigeria Agricultural Extension & Advisory Services Activity annual survey for FY24.
• The project works to increase smallholder farmers’ productivity, incomes, and household nutrition status in Kebbi, Niger, Kaduna, Benue, Ebonyi, Cross-River, and Delta states of Nigeria through strengthening sustainable agricultural extension and advisory services.
• The project particularly focuses on aquaculture, cowpea, maize, rice, and soybean value chains.

Essential Responsibilities

• Support the training of field supervisors and enumerators in preparation for the quantitative data collection.
• Support the scripting of survey tools, ensuring validity checks and skip logic on mobile device.
• Ensure data quality assurance throughout the data collection period by conducting daily data review and spot checks and providing necessary feedback.
• Carry out data cleaning and ensuring consistency in the dataset collected from the field.
• Conduct analysis related to the study and creating tables and charts.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education:

• A bachelor’s degree in statistics, computer science, information technology, sociology/rural development, agricultural, economics, economics or statistics.

Experience:

• S/he will have at least 5 years’ experience in survey fieldwork and information management (data collection, validation, entry, and analysis).
• Experience in survey planning methodologies, participatory evaluation, community-based approaches, developing and evaluating integrated food security and development programs.
• Proficiency in the use of analytical softwares such as SPSS, STATA, R, etc.
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, including ability to effectively communicate across cultures.
• Experience in the provision of technical support in agricultural, food security, livelihood, marketing, and economic growth.
• Good English language skills are essential.