OB VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Statistician (f/m)
Enabel is a Belgian development agency. It implements Belgium’s governmental cooperation. The agency also works for other national and international donors. With its partners in Belgium and abroad, Enabel offers solutions to address pressing global challenges – Climate Change, Urbanisation, Human Mobility, Peace and Security, Economic and Social Inequality – and to promote Global Citizenship. With 2,000 staff, Enabel manages about 170 projects in twenty countries, in Belgium, Africa, and the Middle East.
In the context of bilateral cooperation, Enabel is focusing on Maternal and Child Health under the current portfolio.
The overall objective of the project is to support the health sector to reach the remaining bottlenecks to attain another milestone in the reduction of maternal, child, and neonates’ mortality in Rwanda.
The specific objective is to ensure that high-quality data is granularly analyzed, interrogated from tertiary university teaching Hospitals’ research and clinical departments, and cascaded down to district hospitals in their catchment area in order to identify major causes of morbidity and mortality and adaptively correct them and evaluate the improvements as changes are implemented.
In view of the further development of its activities, Enabel is currently looking for an (f/m) Statistician.
Duty station: CHUB in Huye with frequent field missions
Duration of the contract 1 year with possible extension depending on available funding
Expected starting date: January 2023
Salary package according to our salary grids (class 5 – M&E Officer):
From 1.932.107RWF gross salary depending on the number of years of relevant experience.
Function:
Under the direct supervision of the International Epidemiologist and in close collaboration with the Director of the Teaching Hospital of Butare (CHUB), the Statistician will provide support with a focus on three main outputs related to evidence-based decision-making: on-the-job capacity building of hospital staff; statistical analysis and support in academic writing leading to publication.
In general, (s)he will:
- Support data analysis in maternal, pediatrics, and neonatal mortality reduction.
- Participate in the “knowledge management” Enabel team
- Work with hospital specialists, residents, students, and partners to establish research questions, data collection, analysis, and presentations.
- Work with District Hospitals to improve Maternal Child and Community Health.
- Support CHUK in setting up a similar data analytics system
- Participate in all operations research and monitoring and evaluation activities conducted under the MCCH framework.
- Develop, review, and adapt project monitoring and evaluation tools
- Support research based on data available.
- Planning and designing practices, processes, and procedures that allow for effective management of the project.
- Give presentations to policymakers.
- Holds self and others accountable for all work activities, research, and personal actions and decisions; follows through on commitments and focuses on those activities that have the greatest impact on meeting measurable high-quality results for the project.
- Apply organizational knowledge to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the project while recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational challenges.
- Perform other duties as required by the supervisor
Profile:
qualification and experience
- Rwanda Citizen
- A Bachelor’s degree holder in statistics or a related field
- Minimum 2 years of proven experience in statistics, in the analysis of complex datasets
- Experience analyzing health-related data (preferable)
technical skills
- Advanced knowledge in statistical analysis, sample size calculations, knowledge of health information systems is an added value;
- Mastery of statistical software packages (Stata, R, SPSS, etc.) and ability to analyze large datasets such as Demographic and Health Survey data.
- Ability to train, coach, and mentor in statistical analysis
- Strong oral and written communication and presentations skills in English, knowledge of French and Kinyarwanda is an added value
- Proficient skills in qualitative analysis are an added value
- Ability to interact and communicate well with a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to apply sound decision-making processes to support the “policy dialogue” team to reach productive resolutions that translates strategy into actionable plans.
- Ability to communicate well with internal and external partners, including international partners.
attitude
- Highly self-motivated and directed;
- High attention to detail;
- Service-oriented, but selfless and supportive attitude;
- Advanced sense of creativity and initiative
- Strong teamwork and interpersonal relationship skills;
- Strong oral and written communication skills;
- Detail-oriented work ethic.
- Strong customer service orientation;
- Constructive and solution-oriented.
Interested?
Interested applicants fulfilling the above-mentioned criteria are invited to submit their application documents through Job in Rwanda “Appy” button below by “filling out the application form carefully” including a detailed Curriculum Vitae (max 5 pages), a motivation letter, and a copy of a University degree(s). Past and current service certificates also need to be attached to the application (unproven experience will not be considered during the shortlisting). Submit the full file no later than the 12th of December 2022.
Enabel is committed to equal opportunities and diversity in its workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other factor other than competence.
Enabel never requests money to be part of any of the recruitment processes.
Only successful applicants will be contacted.
Done at Kigali,29th November 2022
Resident Representative, Enabel Rwanda
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