SafeStart: Data Analyst / M&E Lead (Remote, Nigeria or South Africa)
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Nigeria
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Do you have your own car you could use for work travel?
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Backup power for outages
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Yes, enough for a full working day (solar, inverter or generator)
Yes, but only for a few hours
No backup power
Amount of work experience fully remote with little day-to-day supervision
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None
Less than 1 year
1 to 2 years
3+ years
Legal permission to work in the country you'd be based in
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Highest level of education completed
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Secondary school certificate
Technical or vocational diploma (e.g. ND, HND)
Bachelor's degree (e.g. BA, BSc, BCom)
Postgraduate diploma or Honours
Master's degree (e.g. MA, MSc, MPH, MBA)
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Professional qualification (e.g. CA, ACCA, ICAN)
Fields studied
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Statistics, Mathematics or Data Science
Computer Science or Engineering
Economics
Public Health or Epidemiology
Accounting or Finance
Business or Management
Law
Development Studies, Political Science or other social sciences
Natural sciences
Arts or Humanities
Other
University or college studied at
Years of full-time work experience
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1 to 2
3 to 4
5 to 7
8+
Languages you can work in at a professional level
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English
Hausa
Yoruba
Igbo
Pidgin
Fulfulde
Afrikaans
isiZulu
isiXhosa
French
Other
Years worked in data analysis, M&E or a closely related role
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1 to 2
3 to 4
5+
Tools you can use to clean and analyse data on your own
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Python
R
Stata
SQL
Excel or Google Sheets
None of these
Hands-on experience with tools
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None
Less than 6 months
6 to 12 months
1 to 3 years
3+ years
Python
R
SQL / PostgreSQL
Excel (complex formulas, multi-sheet workbooks)
SurveyCTO, ODK or KoboToolbox
Power BI or similar dashboard tool
Workflow automation (n8n, Zapier, Power Automate)
Git / GitHub
Supabase
How often do you do the following tasks?
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Occasionally
Monthly
Weekly
Daily
Designing or testing mobile data collection forms (XLSForms)
Writing scripts to clean or transform data
Writing SQL queries
Checking incoming field data for quality problems
Building dashboards
Running statistical analysis (e.g. regression, ANCOVA)
Writing reports or summaries for non-technical readers
Documenting cleaning rules, changelogs or SOPs
Training others to use data tools
Area where you would add the most value
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Data pipeline and infrastructure (Supabase, n8n, automations)
M&E system design (forms, sampling, field data quality)
Statistical analysis and evaluation
Dashboards and reporting
Multiple-choice questions
Pick the best answer for each question. You don't need to look anything up.
You need the chlorine uptake rate across 40 communities of different sizes. Which calculation is right?
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Average the community uptake percentages without weighting
Weight community uptake by the number of households or people in each community
Use only the largest community
Subtract the smallest uptake rate from the largest
Uptake rose from 40% to 50% between rounds. Which description is correct?
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It increased by 10 percentage points
It increased by 10 percent
It doubled
It decreased by 10 percentage points
There are 12 agents, each serving 45 households, and uptake is 60%. How many households are using chlorine?
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324
360
540
720
Communities with more agents have higher uptake. What can you conclude?
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The extra agents definitely caused the higher uptake
There may be an association, but you cannot conclude causation from this alone
Agent count has no relationship to uptake
Higher uptake must be due to data errors
A household roster records 85 people in one household. What do you do?
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Accept it without checking
Flag it for follow-up and verify the household count
Delete the record immediately
Change it to 8 without asking
18% of households have no chlorine test result. How do you report the share with chlorine detected?
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As a share of all households, noting the missing results separately
As 82% only, with no note about missing results
As 18% because that is the missing share
As 100% because missing results can be ignored
Two submissions have the same household, date and enumerator but different answers. What should happen?
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Keep both and average the answers
Investigate and resolve the duplicate/conflicting submissions before using the data
Delete both records immediately
Use the later upload without checking
Which of these could point to fabricated or low-quality survey data? Select all that apply.
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Interviews far shorter than typical
Different households at almost the same GPS point
One enumerator's answers vary far less than everyone else's
Submissions uploaded in a batch a few days later
Answers that vary a lot between households
You want to show monthly uptake over 12 months for 3 LGAs. Which chart works best?
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A line chart with separate lines for each LGA
A pie chart
A scatter plot with no labels
A table only
After a report goes to a donor, you find one figure was wrong. What do you do?
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Ignore it since the report is already sent
Correct the figure, document the error, and notify the relevant stakeholders
Delete the report and say nothing
Change the source data so the report looks consistent
Working style
How much do you agree with each statement? There are no trick questions.
Agreement statements
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1 = Strongly disagree
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5 = Strongly agree
If a cleaning rule gives the right answer, it doesn't really need to be documented.
When an enumerator asked a question differently from the guidance, I should edit the responses to match what was intended.
I'd rather share a rough early finding with the team than wait until the analysis is polished.
It's frustrating when colleagues give feedback that means I need to change my approach.
Which of these would most negatively affect your satisfaction in a job?
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Frequent overnight travel away from home
Working with difficult partners or clients
Working overtime
Repetitive tasks with little variety
Not enough face time with colleagues
Little structure or unclear direction
In your own words
Please write these answers yourself, without AI tools. Short and specific beats long and general.
In a sentence or two, what does SafeStart do?
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What's one thing about our model you'd question or want to test? (Max 100 words)
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Tell us about a time you found an error or inefficiency in how data was collected or processed. What was the problem, how did you notice it, what did you do (tools or methods), and what changed? Which role on your CV is this from? (Max 150 words)
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An agent in one community reports 400 chlorine bottles redeemed this month, up from 120 last month. Household survey data for that community shows no change in uptake. What would you check, in what order, and who would you talk to? (Max 150 words)
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What is your expected monthly gross salary? (numbers only)
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Gross means before tax and other deductions, and should include all benefits and allowances. We'll look at your expectation in the context of your location and experience.
Expected monthly gross salary: top of your range (numbers only)
How did you hear about this role?
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