Data Manager SARMAAN at Sightsavers

Sightsavers implements projects in over 30 countries in Africa and South Asia working to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote the rights of people with disabilities.

Title: Data Manager

Location: Nigeria

Contract:12-month fixed term contract

Salary: Local Terms and Conditions apply

Job Summary 

The Data Manager will oversee the entire data framework to ensure its reliability, security, and usefulness in driving project success. This position entails strategic management of data collection, analysis, and presentation, ensuring accurate information flows seamlessly from community-level activities to central systems for decision-making and reporting across all project phases. The Data Manager will coordinate with project teams, including two Country Office-based Data Analysts, state command centres, and partners, to maintain high-quality data standards and support evaluation of reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance outcomes. Additionally, the Data Manager will provide clear insights, train staff, and propose improvements, acting as a key link between field operations and project leadership to advance child health goals and inform policy.

Responsibilities

• Lead the daily collection, organisation, and verification of project data, ensuring accuracy and security
• Establish and maintain data protocols, preparing daily reports and identifying issues for review
• Facilitate the transmission of LGA-level data into relevant tools, providing bi-weekly updates
• Ensure effective use of CommCare across field operations, resolving technical challenges promptly
• Organise and refine data from CommCare and KoboToolbox, integrating information for practical use
• Analyse data to identify trends and key findings, informing project decisions
• Collaborate with Data Analysts to produce reports, enabling partners to assess project performance
• Present recommendations and projections based on data during meetings and briefings
• Maintain Power BI dashboards to illustrate project progress and distribute monthly updates
• Create visual representations to highlight critical results and prepare presentations for partners
• Design and conduct training sessions for staff on data tools, providing support and instructional materials
• Monitor the performance of staff involved in data-related activities, ensuring compliance and timely submission
• Engage with partners to standardise data methods and tools, improving project efficiency
• Work with the NTD MEL Manager to prepare data for analysis and ensure its accuracy for reporting
• Collaborate during review meetings, delivering updates on data quality and project advancements
• Support monitoring of child health outcomes, ensuring data meets project requirements
• Foster productive relationships with authorities and partners, ensuring seamless data exchange

This is a highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the Job Description for full details.

Skills and Experience

As the Data Manager, you will oversee the entire data framework to ensure its reliability, security, and usefulness in driving project success. You will manage data collection, analysis, and presentation, ensuring accurate information flows seamlessly from community-level activities to central systems for decision-making and reporting. Your role involves coordinating with project teams, maintaining high-quality data standards, supporting evaluation outcomes, providing clear insights, training staff, and proposing improvements. You will act as a key link between field operations and project leadership to advance child health goals and inform policy.

Jobholder Requirements

Essential:

• Possession of a bachelor’s degree in data science, Public Health, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related discipline
• Experience in data management, including at least three years within health-related projects such as child survival, AMR, and/or MDA initiatives
• Demonstrated expertise in training, supervising, and coordinating with diverse stakeholders on data-focused tasks
• Advanced proficiency in ODK, CommCare, KoboToolbox and/or DHIS2 for managing health data
• Ability to clean, validate, and standardise (Extract, Transform and Load [ETL]) data for analysis
• Proficiency in Power BI or similar tools to present data clearly; knowledge of mapping tools (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS) is advantageous
• Basic proficiency in Python or SQL to enhance data processing efficiency
• Understanding of tools such as QGIS or ArcGIS for geographical data representation
• Strong capability in Excel for data-related activities
• Networking and influencing both within and outside the organisation
• Consistently strives to achieve high standards of performance and responds positively to change
• Communicates confidently and effectively with colleagues and partners
• Gathers relevant information and uses effective reasoning to make timely decisions
• Prioritises activities and develops plans to achieve them, monitoring own progress
• Gets things done, can be relied upon to do what they say they will, and is committed to achieving good quality work to agreed standards
• Understands how their work impacts on others and contributes positively to a global team

Desirable:

• Knowledge of advocacy, research, partnership development, and understanding of the Polio Platform and Nigerian Health System.

Application Dealine:13 April 2025