Data Analyst

Contract length: to end December 2022, with the possibility of extension Hours: Full-time Location: Home-based, available for normal working hours in the CET/EET time zone

Travel: None anticipated

Reporting to: Data Solutions Manager

Salary range: 3,200-3,800 USD/month

Deadline for applications: 19 October 2022*

*Due to the urgency of this vacancy, screening and interviews will commence immediately and the candidate can be selected at any stage before the closing date.

CLEAR Global is an equal-opportunity employer, committed to having a diverse team where individuals of all backgrounds collaborate and learn from one another. We believe we can be most effective with diverse experience and expertise in our team. We recruit on merit, actively seek diverse applicant pools and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, marital or parental status, or sexual orientation, and welcome all types of diversity.

We offer in addition to salary:

• an innovative work environment with a diverse and passionate team,
• 20 days of annual leave and 10 days of floating holidays,
• the flexibility of home-based/remote work,
• accommodation and per diems when on deployment.

The role

The Data Analyst works within the Research, Advocacy and Data team, supporting a range of projects to source, analyze, and visualize data on language and communication in order to change minds and practices in the aid sector. Until the end of 2022, projects will include data support to humanitarian action in Somalia and Nigeria.

This is a key role for the organization, for which we anticipate securing longer-term funding, and we would encourage candidates interested in the possibility of a more permanent role to apply.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the further development and management of CLEAR Global’s language data analysis and mapping system, including preparing data and designing and maintaining data pipelines and models
• Provide rapid analysis, insights, and visualization on language and communication needs from various datasets as required
• Develop and maintain robust and efficient data management policies and processes for the data we use
• Support and input on the development and analysis of surveys, feedback forms, and other program-level data collection tools
• Engage with humanitarian partners on integrating and tracking the use of standardized language indicators in data collection efforts
• Work with the Data Solutions Manager and humanitarian partners to track and analyze the impact of CLEAR Global’s data products
• Undertake risk review processes to identify potential risks associated with collecting and sharing language data, and develop appropriate mitigation strategies
• Contribute to CLEAR Global’s overall approach to data analysis and data-driven decision making, and use data and data visualization to advocate for language to be considered across humanitarian responses and development programs
• Contribute to a positive, innovative and supportive work environment where CLEAR Global’s values are understood and upheld
• Other duties as assigned

Please note that these roles and responsibilities are approximate and may change over time.

Qualifications

The Data Analyst should be an innovative self-starter with a strong sense of initiative, an understanding of the humanitarian sector with a strong background in data science, statistics or a related field and enthusiastic about the importance of increasing access to knowledge through language. The right candidate is an energetic team player and leader who agrees with CLEAR Global’s basic beliefs and values and who can work virtually with team members based throughout the world.

Requirements

Required skills and experience

• Degree in data science, statistics, or related field
• Fluency in spoken and written English
• Strong skills in Python and/or R
• Advanced skills with Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel
• Experience using APIs to extract and query data and consolidating data from multiple sources
• Strong skills running SQL or other data query languages to process relational data
• Data visualization experience, including experience with platforms such as Microsoft PowerBI, Tableau, or similar
• Experience working with demographic and MEAL data
• Communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate complex concepts to a non-specialist audience
• Experience designing data visualization and data management products to inform decision-making
• Experience managing potentially sensitive demographic data and developing strategies to identify and mitigate protection risks with data

Preferred skills and experience

• Working competency in other languages
• Experience with GIS and web mapping, for instance using Carto, MapBox, QGIS, or ArcGIS Online
• Graphic design skills in data visualization
• Experience working with interactive data visualization software and libraries such as Datawrapper, Flourish, Plotly and D3
• Experience working with big data and/or web crawling of multilingual content
• Experience working with machine learning training data, especially language data
• Humanitarian or international development experience

About CLEAR Global

CLEAR Global exists to help people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We believe that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity, and raise awareness of language barriers. Our network of over 100,000 community members translate millions of words of life-saving and life-changing information a year.

Core values

CLEAR Global employees and volunteers are people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. CLEAR Global’s mission and organizational spirit embody the core values established in its strategic framework:

• Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, CLEAR Global is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.
• Integrity: CLEAR Global believes that every person, whether it’s the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.
• Empowerment: CLEAR Global believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.
• Innovation: CLEAR Global recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.
• Sustainability: CLEAR Global recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.
• Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and, conduct themselves professionally at all times.

CLEAR Global may re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer an appointment with a modified job description or for a different duration at its discretion.