Senior Associate: Primary Data Intelligence at Genesis Analytics Genesis Analytics

Description

ABOUT GENESIS

In a world undergoing convulsive technological and political change, Genesis partners with key actors to deliver urgent, lasting impact in critical areas.

Genesis, an impact firm founded, incorporated and headquartered in Africa, has worked in 46 African countries and more than 100 countries globally. Uniquely, Genesis is focused on the Young World - the arc of countries with young populations stretching across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and parts of Southeast Asia.

By 2030 four in five children will be born in the Young World, making this region central to the future. With growing markets and young, productive populations, Young World countries have the most positive potential trajectory in the world. It is here that investments of all kinds will have the highest social and economic returns.

Our job at Genesis is to help societies, governments and businesses across the Young World succeed at three fundamental historic transitions:

Reconfiguring economies: creating income for large, rapidly urbanising youth cohorts within a global economy undergoing profound changes

A human transition: a fundamental rethink of how societies, governments and markets can ensure the health and cognitive and social well-being of all those young people, including the most vulnerable

A just climate transition: both to decarbonise and to manage the human and economic impacts of a global crisis they did not cause

To do this work, we are building a new type of impact firm.

LOCATION: Anywhere where Genesis has offices: Johannesburg, Abidjan, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Nairobi, Lagos or London. (You should have the legal right to work and live in the location).

PRACTICE AREA DESCRIPTION

Group Services provides support to the business and covers Finance, HR, Business Development, IT, Marketing and Office Management. It consists of a team of valuable experts who provide trustworthy solutions to complex and everyday challenges. We are dedicated to accuracy and reliability and to work with each Practice Area, like interconnected cogs and flywheels, to build a trusted system.

In 2023, Genesis Analytics founded the Primary Data Intelligence (PDI) team at Genesis Analytics as a distinguished centre of excellence dedicated to data generation and application. With the mounting global demand for evidence-based, high-quality, and high-frequency data, Genesis Analytics has strategically augmented its services to address these requirements with unmatched precision and rigour.

The PDI team has a strong background in on-the-ground data collection coupled with innovative data methodologies. This empowers them to tackle complex primary data tasks efficiently while adhering to the highest data quality standards. PDI's collaboration with a network of local partners, who are in alignment with its rigorous quality control measures, solidifies a consistent data quality benchmark across multi-country research campaigns.

Central to PDI's ethos in data collection and utilisation is the belief that the intentional and pragmatic application of cutting-edge technology amplifies both efficiency and data quality. This commitment to technological innovation manifests at every research phase, whether it's leveraging satellite imagery for sampling, deploying automated quality alerts to fieldworkers via chat platforms, or executing real-time transcripts and preliminary analyses of in-depth interviews.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

The senior associate will be largely involved in primary data collection, including quality control, survey design and scripting, relational database management, data cleaning, data analysis and report writing. That being said, the associate will be further involved in other areas of data innovation alongside members of the PDI team - involving AI, automations, dashboarding, system and database design as well as GIS.

Beyond your data responsibilities, you'll play a pivotal leadership role within the PDI team, guiding and fostering the growth of junior team members. If you're passionate about driving data innovation and nurturing talent, this role offers a dynamic opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

Responsibilities

A core facet of working in the PDI team centres around rigour. As custodians of data quality for data-centric development projects in the young world, we therefore value trust and transparency above all else. Rigour is carried through from conceptualisation, designing robust data collection tools, real-time quality control all the way to analysis and the dissemination of findings.

The responsibilities of the senior associate role include:

Project management (budgeting, resource allocation, project coordination)

Qualitative and quantitative methodology design

Quality control

Data collection tool design & digitisation

Relational database management

Dashboard development

Data cleaning & analysis

Stakeholder engagement with clients, fieldwork partners and key informants

Dissemination of research findings using various mediums (reports, dashboards, data visualisation, presentations)

Mapping geographical data

Leadership and capacity building

Requirements

We specifically would like to hire an experienced professional with a keen interest and love for data who has a passion for doing impactful work across the young world.

Requirements

Integrity - as custodians of data quality for development projects in the young world, we value trust and transparency above all else.

At least 5 years of experience in data-driven consulting work (quantitative and/or qualitative)

Masters degree or higher

Academic qualifications involving economics, psychology, statistics, monitoring and evaluation, environmental science, development and/or sociology or similar

Good knowledge of statistics

Proficiency working with scripted data analysis software (e.g. STATA, SPSS, R or Python)

Tech-savvy individual excited to work with new digital platforms, with guidance from the DI team (Slack, Airtable, Looker Studio, Google MyMaps)

Excellent writing ability in English

Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

Desirable (advantageous)

7 years of experience in data-driven consulting work (quantitative or qualitative)

French speaking (highly desirable)

Relational database experience (Airtable, SQL)

GIS experience/experience using spatial statistics

HOW TO APPLY

Please follow the online application process on the career portal of the Genesis website, we are unable to accept any e-mailed CVs or applications.

Your application will primarily be considered for this role. If there are multiple roles that you are interested in, please submit your application to each position.

Once you have applied via our career portal, you will receive a system-generated confirmation e-mail that your application was received.

NOTE: Please be advised that uploaded documents/attachments cannot be bigger than 4MB in total, as the system will not accept your application if the uploaded documents exceed 4MB.

Communication will be with short-listed candidates only - if you do not receive any feedback on your application within 3 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Genesis Analytics reserves the right not to proceed with an appointment of any advertised role.

All appointments will be made in line with Genesis Analytics' Employment Equity Plan and Transformation Policies.

All applications will be treated confidentially.

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