Job description
About The Team
Data plays a critical role at Komaza – by putting a smartphone in the hand of every single Field Extension agent, we are able to collect and analyze real-time information on all aspects of our value chain from Planting to Sales. Business Intelligence is a new department at Komaza, tasked with building the central nervous system of information across the company—including designing new visualization tools, dashboards and human systems for leveraging data in our day-to-day operations
About This Role
Data Assistants stand at the forefront of Komaza’s data management and data quality. As a Data Assistant your main mission is to ensure that the data collected in the field is of high quality, accurate and usable. You will be conducting data clean up, processing and quality control and be the point person for data collection challenges coming from the field teams.
What You Will Do
Conducting quality and accuracy check on data submitted from the field to our office systems
Reviewing,reconciling, organizing and storing both hard copy and soft copy documents from the field Following up with field data collection teams regarding data submission and re-collection
Entering, approving and editing core data points in our databases
Conducting basic data clean up in Google Sheets or other software (SQL database or Stata)
Identifying data discrepancies i and taking appropriate action as directed
Monitoring dashboards designed by Data Officers and Associates and flagging data challenges
What You Have
University degree or a diploma (science and data background a plus)
1+ year of work experience (internships and volunteering included)
Strong interest in a data related career
How You Work
You have high attention to detail and enjoy approaching work methodically
You are collaborative and enjoy working with others
You enjoy trying out new technologies and systems and can easily adapt to change
You have good communication skills and proactively identify and resolve data challenges and inconsistencies
You’re Also
High energy and enthusiastic
Flexible and self-motivated with the drive to do whatever necessary to get the job done
Willing and eager to learn and master new technical and professional skills
Self-directed and intellectually curious – you know how and when to seek feedback in the pursuit of continuous improvement
Proactive at identifying and communicating challenges and proposed solutions to successfully accomplish work
