Senior Program Specialist, Data Analysis & Visualization at the U.S. Embassy

The U.S. Mission to Nigeria comprises of the Embassy in Abuja, FCT, and the Consulate General in Lagos. U.S. Consulate General Lagos is the Mission’s representative to the Nigerian people in the southern region.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Program Specialist, Data Analysis & Visualization - All Interested Candidates (Public Health Specialist)

Announcement Number: Abuja-2024-009
Location: Abuja
Series/Grade: LE - 0550 11
Hiring Agency: Embassy Abuja

Work Schedule: Full-time - 40 Hours per week

Overview

• Hiring Path: Open to the public
• Who May Apply/Clarification From the Agency: This position is open to All Interested Applicants / All Sources. For USEFM - FP is 04 (65,461). Actual FP salary determined by Washington D.C.
• Security Clearance Required: Public Trust - Background Investigation
• Appointment Type: Permanent
• Appointment Type Details: Indefinite subject to successful completion of probationary period

Summary

• Under the supervision of the Team Lead, Data Science, the incumbent provides technical expertise to improve CDC Nigeria and Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs in the country.

Duties

• The Senior Program Specialist, Data Analysis and Visualization (SPS-DAV), leads and manages CDC’s data analysis and visualization systems, playing a key role in profiling, enhancing, standardizing, transforming, and visualizing health data across programs.
• The SPS-DAV’s essential mission is to analyze complex data sets and present selected information in a visual and graphical manner that can be easily understood by consumers and decision makers.
• Data triangulation, translation and dissemination are essential components of CDC’s program monitoring and evaluation efforts, and the SPS-DAV will be instrumental in helping to keep the agency and its partners on track for achieving extremely ambitious goals for HIV prevention, care, and treatment.

Requirements

• All selected candidates must be able to obtain and hold a Public Trust security clearance. 
• All selected candidates will be subject to a background investigation and, may be subject to a pre-employment medical exam.  
• Selected candidate must be able to begin working within a reasonable period of time (6 weeks) upon receipt of agency authorization and/or clearances/certifications or their candidacy may end.

Education Requirements:

• Master's Degree in Information Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Epidemiology, Information Systems is required.
• NYSC Certificate/Exemption/Exclusion document is required.

Experience:

• Experience: Minimum of five (5) years of work experience as a Data Analyst, Statistician or Data Scientist in a health/medical research organization, university or public health program implementing agency in HIV/AIDS, STD, TB prevention programs at the local, state, Federal or international levels is required.
• N.B: Please address this factor in your ERA application under Major Duties and Responsibilities.

Language:

• Fluency in speaking/reading/writing English is required.
• N.B: Please address this language requirement in your ERA application.

Salary
USD 45,283 / Per Year

Application Closing Date
23rd February, 2024