Position Summary

The Data Manager will be an essential member of IPA’s Global Research and Data Support (GRDS) team and will play a leading role in providing technical support to IPA’s country offices and research projects. This involves fielding support requests, managing and providing coding services, mentoring coding specialists, and liaising with country offices. The Data Manager will also lead efforts to enforce research quality standards and to publish research data.

Responsibilities

30% Global Technical Support Management

• Coordinate global requests for coding services, including building Scopes of Work and delegating tasks to other coding specialists.
• Centrally manage global research support and troubleshooting requests.
• Liaise with country offices, particularly to provide technical mentorship to coding specialists.

30%Technical Support

• Provide advanced coding services directly to projects, particularly in SurveyCTO and Stata.
• Technical outputs such as SurveyCTO forms and Stata do-files
• Support outputs such as troubleshooting resolutions and ticket responses
• Provision of support such as office hours and one-on-one’s

30%Data Quality Standards

• Enforce research quality standards through setting standards, auditing research projects, and regularly assessing offices’ technical readiness.
• Reports on country office performance and research protocol compliance

10%Research Transparency and Publication

• Lead research transparency efforts, including publishing datasets.
• Contribute to research resource development as needed.
• Provide technical support to other IPA projects, products, and initiatives as needed.
• Undertake various other activities as directed by the supervisor as needed.
• Publication of datasets
• Contributions to ongoing technical projects with GRDS

Qualifications

Required

• At least five years of work experience.
• Excellent collaboration skills, with both internal and external collaborators.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to plan resources and actions to ensure timely and efficient service delivery.
• Ability to lead and to maintain effective working relationships in a multicultural environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity.
• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in economics, Statistics, Social Sciences, or equivalent.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, particularly in Excel.
• Advanced proficiency in SurveyCTO and Stata.

Preferred

• Master’s degree in economics, Statistics, Social Sciences, or equivalent.
• Experience managing a randomized control trial.
• Ability to work in one (or more) of the following software programs or languages: Python, R, Twilio, PowerBI, Java, SQL, VBA, GIS, and GitHub.
• Ability to work in one (or more) of the following languages: Spanish, French, Swahili.