Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources Statistician (GAINS) – SERVIR ESA Jobs in Kenya
Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources Statistician (GAINS) – SERVIR ESA Jobs in Kenya
The Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) is an Intergovernmental organization which provides services in surveying, mapping, remote sensing, GIS and ICT to its Member States, partners and clients. It currently has twenty Member States in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region.
Our Mission is to promote sustainable development in the Member States through generation, application and dissemination of geo-information and allied ICT services, products and services.
Reporting to the Technical Lead - Agricultural Insurance & Gender, the Statistician will be responsible for statistical data analysis and modeling for the Gender Inclusive Agriculture Insurance (GAIINS) project.
Duties and Responsibilities
Inform the design of the sampling frame and questionnaires for collection of sex disaggregated geo-located agricultural data.
Test to validate data management tools.
Provide input and advice in the data collection process.
Develop measures for data quality control.
Develop a data analysis and management plan.
Develop data analysis structures, algorithms and procedures.
Conduct data analysis and produce reports.
Model statistical projections for agricultural data in relation to insurance frameworks.
Qualifications and Experience
A MSc Degree in Statistics or Applied Mathematics and Two (2) years of experience in the design, implementation
and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.
Or
A Bachelor's Degree in Statistics or Applied Mathematics and Five (5) years of experience in the design, implementation and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.
Three (3) years’ experience in working with statistical panel survey data.
Experience in economic data mining.
Experience in handling and manipulating large amounts of data.
Demonstrable excellent experience in spatial data manipulation in R.
Experience in using Stata/ SPSS.
Preference will be given to those who submit sample statistical analysis portfolios using R, stata do files or other relevant statistical software.
Experience in using GIS and Earth Observation tools will be an added advantage.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources Statistician (GAINS) – SERVIR ESA Jobs in Kenya
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