Summary
The Data Quality Team Manager leads a team of Analysts and Associates in ensuring Laterite’s research projects deliver useful and high-quality data for our clients and partners. The Manager ensures that research instruments and data collection, monitoring, and cleaning activities are well-structured and efficient and implements quality control processes to identify and eliminate error or fraud.
Laterite is looking for a colleague who values mentoring and has the leadership experience to manage a team of four Data Quality Analyst and Associates. In addition, we are looking for someone with experience designing and implementing tools and process for collecting, monitoring, and analyzing primary data for research projects.
About Laterite
Laterite is a data, research, and technical advisory firm that helps clients understand and analyze complex development challenges. We provide three types of services:
Laterite works with universities, global think tanks, international NGOs, multilateral donor organizations, and government ministries and agencies.
Our core activity sectors are: public health, agriculture, urbanization & migration, education, and youth & labor. We are also involved in projects with a focus on gender issues.
We believe that impact is a long-term endeavor that requires being embedded in the local context. Delivering high-quality research requires building local teams and data collection systems, understanding the context, establishing close working relationships with key players, and understanding their constraints and motivations.
Laterite’s growing network of offices currently includes Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and the Netherlands. Our teams bring together more than 60 full time local and international staff in a dynamic and nurturing work environment. We are proud to be a culturally diverse organization. Learn more: www.laterite.com
Job Description & Key Responsibilities
The key responsibilities of the Data Quality Team Manager (based in Kigali, Rwanda) are:
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Experience working with primary survey data for research and experience managing a team is required. Proficiency in STATA is a must-have and excellent skills in R and/or Python are a strong plus. Additionally:
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