Research Officer – Data Management Job KEMRI
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Key Responsibilities:
- Design/maintain extraction transform load (ETL) workflows, dictionaries, and validation rules; run routine DQ checks and produce facility DQ scorecards.
- Coordinate encrypted transfers, access controls, and audit logs; support in country teams to execute central scripts locally.
- Build analysis ready datasets and documentation (README, data schemas, provenance).
- Manage the full data engineering pipeline across nine to ten countries, covering extraction, transformation, validation, documentation, and version control all study datasets.
- Implement and maintain data quality frameworks, including completeness, internal consistency, timeliness, audit trails, reconciliation checks, and facility feedback on data gaps.
- Maintain secure country specific servers, encryption, anonymization processes, access control registries, and audit logs for compliance with national data laws.
- Ensure correct execution of script based federated analysis workflows, supporting in country teams to run centrally developed code without exporting raw data.
- Produce quarterly clean datasets, documentation packs, and harmonized structures ready for analysis (including wide/long reshaping, panel construction, facility period indexing).
- Collaborate with analysts and statisticians to support data linkage, model preparation datasets, and metadata curation.
Qualifications
- Masters in Biostatistics/Health Informatics/Data Management. Mandatory
- At least 3 years working experience managing large routine health datasets and health facility assessments. Mandatory
- SQL/Python/R; data modelling; data quality frameworks; documentation; security best practice. Mandatory
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