Data Quality Control Officer
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies was conceived in 2007 out of the belief that giving every child access to a high quality education would have the greatest impact on reducing poverty worldwide.
With that guiding insight, Bridge International developed a strategy that would enable it to launch a large-scale network of high-quality, ultra low-cost, for-profit primary schools.
Operating a network of schools supported by a strong central headquarters gives Bridge International the scale, experience, and capacity to invest in systems of management, support, training, and innovation that allows individual schools to dramatically increase their effectiveness.
Using this model, Bridge International is able to profitably deliver high-quality education for $4 per child per month. This ensures that its academies will continue to successfully serve its communities as long as parents value the educational service provided.
The first Bridge International Academy launched successfully in Kenya in 2009 and 60 academies will be operating in Kenya in January 2012. Through rapid and strategic expansion, Bridge International will provide a quality education to over a million students in the coming years.
About this Position
The Data Quality Control Officer supports the file management system by performing data quality checks to ensure accuracy of items and data.
The individual will report to the Research Project Manager and will carry out quality control duties relating to all data collected in the research department including development of QC systems, enforcing protocol compliance, and troubleshooting and report writing.
Responsibilities
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies was conceived in 2007 out of the belief that giving every child access to a high quality education would have the greatest impact on reducing poverty worldwide.
With that guiding insight, Bridge International developed a strategy that would enable it to launch a large-scale network of high-quality, ultra low-cost, for-profit primary schools.
Operating a network of schools supported by a strong central headquarters gives Bridge International the scale, experience, and capacity to invest in systems of management, support, training, and innovation that allows individual schools to dramatically increase their effectiveness.
Using this model, Bridge International is able to profitably deliver high-quality education for $4 per child per month. This ensures that its academies will continue to successfully serve its communities as long as parents value the educational service provided.
The first Bridge International Academy launched successfully in Kenya in 2009 and 60 academies will be operating in Kenya in January 2012. Through rapid and strategic expansion, Bridge International will provide a quality education to over a million students in the coming years.
About this Position
The Data Quality Control Officer supports the file management system by performing data quality checks to ensure accuracy of items and data.
The individual will report to the Research Project Manager and will carry out quality control duties relating to all data collected in the research department including development of QC systems, enforcing protocol compliance, and troubleshooting and report writing.
Responsibilities
- Knowledge of quality management in research data
- Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work well as a member of a team and able to collaborate well with counterparts.
- Able to work with minimum supervision.
- Ability to do problem analysis and recommend solutions for the same
- Knowledge and experience in analysis of research data using excel and other statistical software
- Perform Quality Control and generate reports routinely.
- Review the completed paper forms to ensure that they have been filled accurately and in compliance with the relevant protocols
- Evaluate the field sampling of respondents by loading the house hold GPS points to the Global Mapper and reviewing them.
- Develop and ensure implementation of data QC protocol.
- Implement a data quality monitoring system which includes ensuring consistency of the entered data and what is recorded on the paper forms.
- Review the analysis sheet in order to confirm that it accurately reflects the entered data.
- Write weekly data quality reports identifying quality problems in both the paper forms and entered data and suggesting ways to improve on data quality.
- Liaises with the research associates to identify problems with data collection and suggest procedures to minimize data collection errors and to ensure high quality data collection by assisting in establishment and maintenance of quality control systems.
- Review the data QC systems from time to time in order to align them with the current requirements of the research department.
- Perform any other duties as may be required in the department.
- Certifies the quality of data before final analysis and report writing can be done.
About You
- Bachelors Degree in Geomatic Engineering, Statistics or Mathematics.
- Possess two years experience of working with Management Information Systems to include data input, retrieval and spatial data analysis.
- Knowledge and experience in handling GIS Software
- Excellent report writing skills
- Demonstrate a commitment to achieving the highest possible standards and establish a culture of continuous improvement
