Data Quality Officer

**Overview**:
**Reference**
DTHF-059

**Salary**
ZAR/month

**Job Location**:

- South Africa - City of Cape Town Metro - Ottery - Philippi

**Job Type**
Contract

**Posted**
Thursday, June 15, 2023

**Closing date**
30 Jun 2023 23:59

**DATA QUALITY OFFICER**

**ONE (1) YEAR FIXED-TERM CONTRACT**

**PHILIPPI VILLAGE (PV)**

The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation (DTHF) is a registered non-profit organisation focused on the pursuit of excellence in research, treatment, training and prevention of HIV and related infections in Southern Africa.

We have fantastic job opportunities across our businesses for talented people wanting to realize their full potential. Could that be you? If so, we invite you to explore the possibility of joining us to play your part in Desmond Tutu Health Foundations’ exciting future.

The main purpose of this position will be quality assurance activities, and to provide data analytic support.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in social science, computer science, information technology, computer engineering or a related discipline
- At least 1-2 years’ experience with work with databases, data procedures, and data administration
- Minimum 1-2 years’ experience managing and analysing public health research data
- Computer skills (Microsoft Office), and other database software like REDCAP experience
- Experience in the use of STATA, SPSS and other qualitative software for data analysis
- Strong interpersonal, collaboration and communication (oral and written) skills
- Lateral creative thinking
- Detail orientated
- Decision making skills
- Planning and organizing skills
- Adaptive to change
- Team player, as well as the ability to work independently
- Ability to multi-task

**Advantageous**:

- Masters in public health, with focus in Biostatistics or Epidemiology
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP) certification
- Knowledge of public health research implementation and monitoring procedures

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide high quality, oversee data collection, and quality assurance systems and processes
- Develop and implement real-time data quality assurance processes and procedures
- Perform data cleaning and log data queries for investigation
- Support the design compatible and integrated systems for data coordination and sharing with research partners
- Work with study Principal Investigator and International Data Managers to develop data management and quality assurance plans, including project progress monitoring tools
- Ensure training of and optimal implementation of all components of project data management
- Develop and automate statistical dashboards on project implementation and key study variables
- Train and support field-based data collection staff members
- Prepare and extract analytic datasets, and perform analyses for project PI and managers

**Data Captures Management**
- Develop and automate statistical dashboards on project implementation and key study variables

**Staff Management**
- Train, manage and support data collection staff
- Train, manage and support Data Capture’s and Administrators on Data Team

**Values fit: Passion Innovation Progress Integrity Respect Excellence**

**Visit the DTHF Career page to view the advert (Reference number**:DTHF-059**) and apply**:DTHF Career Page
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- This job may be removed before it expires._
- Desmond Tutu Health Foundation is a child-friendly organisation committed to the protection of children._

**For more information about the organization please visit our website.