Nigeria Data Quality Coordinator

About the role

Seeking a detail-oriented data professional to own survey design, data quality, and analysis within One Acre Fund's MEL team, working closely with field teams to ensure accurate, timely data that informs program decisions and improves impact for farmers.

Responsibilities

• Survey Development and Programming
• Program surveys in CommCare with little support and ensure all data quality controls (display conditions, validation conditions, warning messages) are in place before rollout.
• Respond to feedback from the field team and improve CommCare surveys based on challenges during survey implementation.
• Test all surveys before data collection.
• Stay up-to-date with CommCare features, and ensure surveys incorporate all needed features for maximum efficiency and high data quality.
• Data Quality Management
• Perform error-checking analysis on all ongoing surveys.
• Analyze back-check data and communicate results to the field team to help improve data quality.
• Develop running error trackers and communicate with the field team to understand and correct errors.
• Communicate error check and back check results to the field team and management to improve data quality.
• KPI, Inventory and Performance Tracking
• Maintain the MEL team's goals tracker: keep track of survey completion rates, backcheck completion rates, and survey errors and corrections.
• Use CommCare to calculate KPIs (incl. automation using Zapier), with minimal to no manager support.
• Produce KPI reports and share with field teams (incl. automation using Zapier), with minimal to no manager support.
• Keep track of inventory and resolve technical problems with departmental tablets.
• Data Cleaning and Analysis
• Analyze quantitative summary statistics in Excel and/or Stata and prepare results tables for results communication.
• Perform qualitative data analysis of focus group and interview transcripts.
• Create export in CommCare, with no manager support.
• Manage variable renaming process (incl. renaming variables, as per existing guidance) within Stata, with minimal manager support.
• Training and Mentoring
• Train enumerators on survey best practices before each survey rollout.
• Act as a role model and mentor to field supervisors and enumerators.
• You may be responsible for managing Field Supervisors.
• Career Growth and Development

Requirements

• Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for . For this role specifically, you will have:
• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of proven experience in data analysis, data cleaning, and data quality management.
• Knowledge of Excel (complex formulas, pivot tables, data visualization).
• Strong proficiency in statistical software, specifically Stata.
• Experience with mobile data collection tools like CommCare (including survey design and programming).
• Familiarity with automation tools like Zapier.
• Demonstrated ability to design, program, and deploy surveys and data collection instruments.
• Strong ability to troubleshoot technical issues independently.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to create structure out of chaotic workflows and manage multiple data streams.
• A rigorous approach to data accuracy and quality assurance.
• Ability to work autonomously, take ownership of projects, and drive them to completion.
• Preferred Start Date
• As soon as possible
• Job Location
• Minna, Nigeria

Benefits

Additional Information

About One Acre Fund Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post. The Nigeria program, established in 2018, is headquartered in Minna, Niger state. We're currently serving over 100,000 unique farmers across the state via our inputs on credit 'Core' program, inputs on cash 'Retail' program, and have a free tree seedling distribution 'Agroforestry' program. To learn more about our work, look at our Nigeria program blog.

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