Data Quality Control Officer Job at Bridge International Academies

Job Position Title: Data Quality Control Officer

About Bridge International Academies

Bridge International Academies is a startup revolutionizing education across Africa with a truly unique business model. The company has launched a large-scale network of ultra low-cost for-profit private primary schools across Africa.

With 26 schools operational, the company is already the largest chain of private primary schools on the Continent. Our schools profitably deliver high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month.

In the last twenty-four months, we have grown from 1 to 26 schools, 10 to over 200 employees, proven the model and built out the systems to pave the way for aggressive expansion.

The company plans to build the world’s largest private school system and scale to serve more than 1 million families across Africa and beyond.

About this Position

The Data Quality Control Officer supports the file management system by performing data quality checks to ensure accuracy of items and data.

The individual will report to the Research Project Manager and will carry out quality control duties relating to all data collected in the research department including development of QC systems, enforcing protocol compliance, and troubleshooting and report writing.

Responsibilities

• Knowledge of quality management in research data
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work well as a member of a team and able to collaborate well with counterparts.
• Able to work with minimum supervision.
• Ability to do problem analysis and recommend solutions for the same
• Knowledge and experience in analysis of research data using excel and other statistical software
• Perform Quality Control and generate reports routinely.
• Review the completed paper forms to ensure that they have been filled accurately and in compliance with the relevant protocols
• Evaluate the field sampling of respondents by loading the house hold GPS points to the Global Mapper and reviewing them.
• Develop and ensure implementation of data QC protocol.
• Implement a data quality monitoring system which includes ensuring consistency of the entered data and what is recorded on the paper forms.
• Review the analysis sheet in order to confirm that it accurately reflects the entered data.
• Write weekly data quality reports identifying quality problems in both the paper forms and entered data and suggesting ways to improve on data quality.
• Liaises with the research associates to identify problems with data collection and suggest procedures to minimize data collection errors and to ensure high quality data collection by assisting in establishment and maintenance of quality control systems.
• Review the data QC systems from time to time in order to align them with the current requirements of the research department.
• Perform any other duties as may be required in the department.
• Certifies the quality of data before final analysis and report writing can be done.

About You

• Bachelors Degree in Geomatic Engineering, Statistics or Mathematics.
• Possess two years experience of working with Management Information Systems to include data input, retrieval and spatial data analysis.
• Knowledge and experience in handling GIS Software
• Excellent report writing skills
• Demonstrate a commitment to achieving the highest possible standards and establish a culture of continuous improvement

You can apply and view detailed job requisitions on the Careers page at www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com