Senior Data Analyst

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Description

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The mission of WHO India is to improve quality of life of the 1.4 billion people in India by supporting the government in eliminating vaccine preventable and other communicable diseases, reducing maternal and neonatal mortalities, promoting healthy lifestyles, addressing determinants of health, preparing and responding to health emergencies and strengthening health systems for universal health coverage.

Duties:

Under the managerial oversight of the NPO – Data and Programme Management and day to day supervision of Data Unit Lead, with a view to achieve the expected results set out in the relevant WCO India work plans in accordance with the WHO’s Country Cooperation Strategy with India, the incumbent will have the following responsibilities in her/his assigned area of work

• Monitor and ensure accurate and timely collection, collation and dissemination of surveillance and immunization data through supervision of Assistant Data Analysts
• Oversee and correlate case data with laboratory data to generate consolidated data for analysis;
• Oversee compilation and timely dissemination of SIA coverage and monitoring data;
• Oversee compilation and timely dissemination of Routine Immunization (RI) monitoring data;
• Oversee the development and maintenance of queries and programs for analysis and related reports;
• Monitor and ensure timely dissemination of data, indicators, reports and bulletins;
• Oversee the development and maintenance of dashboards for data visualization;
• Monitor and ensure timely collection, collation and dissemination of demographic and geographic data;
• Oversee and apply quality checks on the data and the analyzed reports to ensure quality of data and reports disseminated;
•  Provide guidance to the team to ensure that the relevant data is disbursed to support the field staff and laboratories;
• Limit the risk of data loss by taking regular back-ups, implementing steps necessary to ensure that Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) Data processing environment is free of virus problems and ensuring that WHO informatics standards are implemented;
•  Work with the systems team in developing the data management systems;
•  Design the module for conducting trainings for the field staff, national staff and laboratory data management staff on data management and analysis using various data management systems; and
• Support any other programme supported by the organization and perform other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor(s) with objectives of improved information management for surveillance and immunization activities.

Education:

• Essential: Secondary, technical, or commercial school

Experience:

• Essential: At least ten (10) years’ of relevant work experience in the field of data handling and management.
• Functional skills: Qualified professional in computer language/s with working knowledge in one or more of JAVA/J2EE, VB, C#, MSSQL, MySQL, SQL, PGADMIN, DBEAVER, ACCESS, EXCEL, EPI INFO, ARC VIEW and ANDROID mobile application development.

Languages:

• Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English and working knowledge of local language will be an asset.

Source: https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2409917

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