Assistant Research Officer – Geographic Information Systems

Reporting Lines: The post holder will report the study Principal Investigator or designate.

Key Responsibilities:

• General support for standard GIS procedures
• Responsible for the assembly, cleaning, organizing, mapping and displaying spatial data from health facilities and household surveys in Africa
• Link health facility and human resource data
• Upon completion of each dataset this ARO will submit the data for further checks and analysis to supervisor on a weekly basis.
• Undertake basic preliminary descriptive and statistical analysis of the data.
• Assisting as and when required in all aspects of data acquisition by the principal applicant.
• Make presentations to journal clubs and seminar in Nairobi.
• And any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

• A BSc in Geography, Geomatics or Geographical Information Systems.

• Computer literacy with proficiency in Microsoft applications,.
• Skills in developing data entry screens with consistency checks in MS Access or equivalent platforms.

• Proficiency in programming languages especially R

• Good analytical  and follow through ability
• Good planning, organization and co-ordination skills
• Ability to take and follow instructions, initiative, keen to learn and proactive with the ability to work under minimal supervision
• Flexibility, adaptability, multi-tasking and attention to detail
• Confidentiality and integrity
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Team working and ability to work in a multi-cultural environment