Data Analyst (Data Management), Paediatrics & Child Health -MC

Introduction

The Outreach and Research Programme of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health has ten community-based field sites across Pakistan (including four in Karachi) and focuses on research for the betterment of women and child health. The Department has a Nutritional Research Laboratory as well as an Infectious Disease Research Laboratory that cater to the needs of its research projects. It has well-acclaimed work to its credit, both at the national and international levels.

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities include to:

• script and program skills; proficiency with any of the tools will be plus (Java, Android, R, STATA, Python, Power BI, VS Code).

• develop machine learning models, including familiarity with techniques in clustering, classification, regression, optimization, recommendation, natural language processing, and others.

• understand data and analytical frameworks in health care industry

• be able to articulate research questions, form hypotheses, review and synthesize existing literature

• be able to work effectively with people at all levels in the organization

• be able to cope with multiple tasks with minimum guidance

• have understanding of current processes and provide automation and digitization

• be able to collect, manipulate, pre-process and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources and present insights using different visualization tools

• develop machine learning models, including familiarity with techniques in clustering, classification, regression, optimization, recommendation, natural language processing, and others.

Requirements:

You should have:

• a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or MSc in health data science or equivalent.
• one year of working experience
• excellent problem-solving and analytical skill
• effective communication skills
• excellent communication and presentation skills; experience presenting insights to technical and non-technical colleagues
• able to understand and follow instructions
• ability to speak and understand job related English and Urdu.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.

This is a close-ended position.

Disclaimer:

The Aga Khan University is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment which is free from discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at AKU are based on business needs, job requirements and individual’s qualifications and experience, without regard to race, colour, caste or creed, national, social or ethnic origin, gender (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification). AKU does not discriminate among the job candidates on account of any of these characteristics.