Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Integrated Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI) is an international development consulting company specializing in monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning. The Data Management / Data Analysis Specialist will support a livelihoods framework and evaluation assignment by programming data-collection instruments, managing secure data workflows, processing and analyzing qualitative and quantitative datasets, and producing visualizations and reports across 13 project evaluations.
Responsibilities
- Translate approved questionnaires, interview guides, checklists, and scorecards into reliable electronic data-collection instruments using appropriate platforms
- Program skip logic, range and consistency checks, required fields, unique identifiers, consent gates, language versions, metadata, and secure submission workflows
- Develop and maintain data-management plans, data dictionaries, codebooks, file-naming conventions, access controls, version-control procedures, and data-retention and destruction protocols
- Receive, inventory, merge, de-identify, and securely store quantitative and qualitative data from field teams, implementing organizations, and secondary sources
- Perform daily or scheduled data-quality checks for completeness, duplication, missingness, outliers, logical inconsistencies, interview duration, enumerator patterns, and protocol deviations; document and resolve queries with field teams
- Clean, recode, label, derive, and prepare analysis-ready datasets while preserving raw data and a transparent audit trail of all transformations
- Prepare quantitative tabulations and statistical outputs and support qualitative coding, codebook management, retrieval, and thematic analysis
- Integrate qualitative and quantitative evidence into triangulation matrices and maintain evidence links supporting scorecard ratings, findings, conclusions, and recommendations
- Create clear tables, charts, and other data visualizations for monthly updates, evaluation reports, scorecards, slide decks, and stakeholder presentations
- Protect confidentiality and personally identifiable information and comply with approved IRB, consent, safeguarding, data-protection, and implementing-organization requirements
Skills
- At least 5 years of professional experience in evaluation data management, research data processing, quantitative or qualitative analysis, or a closely related function
- Demonstrated experience programming or coding electronic data-collection instruments and implementing field validation and skip logic
- Experience cleaning, quality-checking, merging, labeling, and documenting multi-source datasets from surveys, interviews, focus groups, checklists, or administrative records
- Proficiency in Excel and at least one quantitative analysis package such as SPSS, Stata, R, or Python
- Experience with at least one electronic data-collection platform such as KoboToolbox, SurveyCTO, ODK, Qualtrics, REDCap, or a comparable system
- Experience with qualitative data coding or qualitative analysis software, or demonstrated ability to manage coded qualitative datasets
- Ability to produce accurate, accessible, decision-oriented data visualizations and tables
- Strong attention to detail, documentation, data security, and deadline management
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
- Bachelor's degree in statistics, data science, information systems, economics, social sciences, evaluation, public policy, or another relevant field
- This position is primarily remote and computer-based and requires secure handling of confidential evaluation data
- This position requires the ability to speak, hear, see, use a computer or mobile device, and lift small objects up to 20 lbs. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions
- Limited travel may be required
- Master's degree in a relevant field
- Experience supporting multi-country livelihoods, humanitarian, agriculture, food security, or economic-development evaluations
- Experience in low-connectivity, multilingual, fragile, or conflict-affected field settings
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Limited travel may be required
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