DATA ANALYST

The New Vision Printing and Publishing Company Ltd is looking to recruit a dynamic, self motivated individual to fill the role of a DATA ANALYST.

Position: DATA ANALYST

Reports to: RESEARCH & DATA MANAGER

Duty Station: HEAD OFFICE

Job Purpose: This job is to manage company data including collection, storage and analysis. The data analyst brings technical expertise to ensure quality, accuracy and timely delivery of that data, then process, design and present it in ways to inform the company’s business decisions.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyze data and interpret findings using statistical techniques to inform the business units strategic needs, support content development and analyze trends.
• Manage data sets, including creation, development, updating and implementation of databases.
• Support the data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality.
• Support initiatives for data integrity and normalization by developing structures to monitor and check on data collected against set questionnaires.
• Provide technical expertise on data storage structures, data mining data cleaning and data analysis.
• Build internal capacity by training on; data software, data usage and appropriate methodologies and tools to ensure reliability and validity of the data collected.
• Process data and information into insights to support decision making.
• Assess tests for proposed new systems and implement software upgrade.
• Generate reports from single or multiplé systems including content management system, financial system and marketing information system to derive correlations that support and inform business strategic direction.
• Develop and design research tools based on calendar and adhoc studies as required.
• Keep abreast of current data development and management trends within market research systems and technology to maintain personal skills/knowledge base to deliver leading edge solutions to the department.