Data Analyst Position with Banda Health

Overall Responsibility:
The analyst will be responsible for extracting and analyzing data to inform patient health care in very-low-income communities.

Key areas of responsibility:

  1. Creating summary data tables/views, descriptive analyses and monitoring tools using Grafana and other tools.
  2. Creating summary client-level reporting tools for incorporation into BandaGo.
  3. Creating Banda team-level dashboards and/or clinic client-level dashboards
  4. Contributing to team discussions regarding:
    • Best-fit analytic tools.
    • Increasing client-level data entry compliance rates
    • Driving client best-practice processes through visualized data
    • Creating efficiencies and streamlining operations
      • This will typically include involvement in some or all of the five-step business analytics process: framing a business question; developing an analytic plan; (collecting the data); gleaning insights; and, crafting subsequent recommendations.
  5. Provide support with technical writing and editing as required
  6. Possibly building initial prediction systems integrated with our products.

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. Entry-level expertise and passion for data analytics.
  2. Motivation, being self-directed yet able to work well as a team.
  3. Strong communication skills and the ability to partner with cross-functional teams
  4. Experience with:
    • Tools and techniques associated with designing, implementing and communicating point-of-service and retrospective analyses of healthcare data.
    • Statistical software (e.g. SAS/JMP, R, Python).
    • Bayesian analysis and causal inference methods.
  5. Ability to:
    • Develop work plans and workflows and organize and prioritize analytics activities.
    • Define issues, interpret data, identify solutions, and make recommendations for action.
  6. Education and Experience:
    • Required:
      • SQL experience
      • Experience with data visualization tools
    • Preferred:
      • Post-Secondary Diploma or Degree in a data science, data analytics or closely-related program.
      • Or an equivalent combination of education and experience which would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
      • Experience with any of the following tools is an added advantage: Power BI, Tableau, Grafana, ELK Stack.
Banda Health
www.BandaHealth.org
Nairobi, KE