The
African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an international
non-profit, non-governmental organization that carries out policy relevant
research on population, health, education and development issues facing
sub-Saharan Africa.
The
Center seeks to fill the following vacancy:
Database Programmer
The
successful candidate will have strong analytical and excellent communication
skills.
He/she
must be self-motivated, flexible with due attention to details and a team
player.
Duties
and Responsibilities
- Analyze,
design, develop and deploy software applications used for capturing and
evaluating research data.
- Maintain
and improve existing software applications.
- Design
and develop relational databases for new research projects.
- Design
and develop electronic data collection tools.
- Enforce
and monitor both relational and temporal consistency checks in the
database.
- Write
views to retrieve data for analysis as well as convert data to formats
required by researchers.
- Design
and update programs to generate various reports from the database.
- Train
Data Entry Clerks and address programming issues encountered during data
entry.
- Coordinate
and monitor quality control during data capturing, including double data
entry activities.
- Produce
regular data entry performance indicators.
- Perform
basic data cleaning in the database following data entry.
- Support
Data Entry Clerks supervisors in managing the date entry process.
Essential
- A
B.Sc. degree in Computer Science or in a data or information management
related discipline.
- Experience
in developing and maintaining applications using OOP principles in a .Net
language (Visual Basic or Visual C#).
- Experience
in designing and developing large relational databases preferably using
Microsoft SQL server.
- Knowledge
of data synchronization technologies.
- Skills
in manipulating data: writing complex SQL scripts to extract, transform
and load data in SQL server.
- Knowledge
of EPI-INFO or any other data management application
- Good
communication and supervisory skills.
Desirable
- Knowledge
of concepts in temporal databases.
- Report
writing skills.
Candidates
who meet the requirements above should submit their applications enclosing a
detailed CV, quoting current and expected remuneration and providing contact
details of three referees to the address below.
Online
applications should be sent to jobs@aphrc.org by February 28, 2013.
Please,
indicate “Database Programmer” on the subject line of the email application or
on the envelope.
Only
short listed candidates will be contacted.
The
Human Resources Manager
African
Population & Health Research Center
P.
O Box 10787-00100 GPO, Nairobi