Quick Facts

Position Title: Data Analyst
Project Title: Kenya HealthFin Diaries Research Project
Duration: 2 Years (Full-Time Contract). Full-time from June 2025 through June 2027.
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Reports to: Research Manager and Senior Data and Research Manager.
Application deadline: 18th June, 2025 

Position Overview

The Data Analyst will play a crucial role in supporting the Kenya HealthFin Diaries Research
Project, a longitudinal study aimed at understanding health-related behaviors, expenditures, and outcomes. The analyst will be responsible for managing, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing large datasets, as well as generating insights to inform project deliverables and stakeholder decisions.

Key Responsibilities

The Data Analyst will:

• Create and manage a filing system to track and manage all project data in
  line with research protocols.
• Perform regular checks on household financial data within a specially built
  database application.
• Correct discrepancies in the data and perform quarterly and as-needed data
  validations in collaboration with investigators and field researchers.
• Support anonymization of data components as needed, including in the core
  dataset, with photos, and in English transcripts of interview recordings.
• Write and run queries within the database application to pull data for
  analysis.
• Create data visualizations for ongoing analysis and public presentations.
• Contribute to blogs, reports, other written publications and public presentations.
• Contribute to the production of research instruments within the database application by updating questions, skip patterns, and other setup issues.
• Maintain the database application as needed and ensure fieldworkers are using the latest versions of all software.
• Create a clean, anonymized and well-documented limited dataset for public sharing by the end of the project.
• Conduct general, complementary research activities as needed.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in statistics, finance, economics, data science, or related field;
• Experience with STATA data analysis and statistical software is required, and experience
  with SQL and Python are advantages;
• Experience managing large and complex datasets (time series dataset management and
  analysis experience strongly preferred);
• Experience presenting data in the forms of tables and charts in order to make analytical
  arguments;
• Strong quantitative analysis skills;
• Strong communication abilities in English;
• Strong work ethic and proactive attitude in pointing out challenges and asking questions;
• Ability to collaborate with a team and also work independently.

Application

Please fill out the google form to apply for the position. At the end of the form, you will be required to upload a detailed CV, 2 references, daytime phone number(s), email address and a STATA Do File. Your CV should include your scores or grades and other measures of academic achievement, and details about any relevant work experience. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a data analytics test during the hiring process.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the driver. The statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all possible duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Management reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary. Please note that gui2de and Ekko Insights will never request any form of payment from an applicant. Applicants are encouraged to confirm the information listed above with gui2de East Africa prior to releasing any extensive personal information to the organization.