CIVICUS Data Specialist Jobs in South Africa
CIVICUS Data Specialist Jobs in South Africa
About CIVICUSCIVICUS exists to defend people power. As a growing global alliance of over 7000 members in 175 countries, we work together to monitor violations of basic civic freedoms, call out the perpetrators of violations and strengthen the power of people to organise by supporting a more accountable, effective and innovative civil society. We strive to promote excluded voices, especially from the Global South.
About the Role
The Data Specialist role forms part of the Impact and Accountability cluster that is responsible to ensure that the data that is generated from various programmes, research and advocacy work is integrated into the processes to promote evidence-based decision-making, to increase organisational impact and to ensure that we are accountable to all our stakeholders in terms of what actions have been taken.
The Data Specialist will also closely collaborate with other clusters at CIVICUS and with external stakeholders to provide data related expertise, to prove or disprove data related hypothesis and to capture and disseminate learnings across multiple programmes.
Key Requirements
A Degree or Diploma in Data Analytics and Science, Statistics, IT or equivalent
A minimum 5-7 years’ professional experience within the relevant functional area, at least 2-3 years’ experience of data management, analysis, manipulation
Excellent
IT skills, including experience with MS Office and Human Resource Information Systems
Ability to identify trends in data and ICT4D and turn them into actionable items
Demonstrated track record of diverse data stream coordination and analysis
High degree of familiarity with qualitative and quantitative data methods
Thorough understanding of ICT4D and CRM systems (database applications), M&E systems, and programming languages (such as SQL, Oracle and Python)
For this recruitment, CIVICUS greatly encourages applications from suitable candidates in the Global South and the African continent in particular.
How to Apply
The closing deadline for applications is Close of Business on the 06th December 2020. Interested candidates should email their application to jobs@civicus.org
Your application should comprise of
A full CV, including educational and professional qualifications, a full employment history showing the more significant positions, responsibilities held, and relevant achievements
A covering note of not more than 1 page outlining your motivation for applying for the role.
Short listed candidates will be contacted the week of the 7th December 2020 to schedule interviews.
Due to high volumes of applications received, should you not have received feedback on your application within three weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.
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