Database Programmer Job With An NGO.

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that carries out policy relevant research on population, health, education and development issues facing sub-Saharan Africa. The Center seeks to recruit a Database Programmer. Analyze, design, develop and deploy applications used for capturing and evaluating research data
Maintain and improve existing applications

Design and develop relational databases for new research projects
Enforce and monitor both relational and temporal consistency checks in the database
Write views to retrieve data for analysis as well as convert data to formats required by researchers
Design and update programs to generate various reports from the database
Train Data Entry Clerks and address programming issues encountered during data entry
Coordinate and monitor quality control during data capturing, including double data entry activities
Produce regular data entry performance indicators
Perform basic data cleaning in the database following data entry
Support Data Entry Clerks supervisors in managing the data entry process

A BSc. degree in Computer Science or in a data and information management related discipline
Experience in developing and maintaining applications using OOP principles in a .NET language (Visual Basic or Visual C#)
Experience in designing and developing large relational databases preferably using Microsoft SQL Server
Skills in manipulating data: writing complex SQL scripts to extract, transform and load data in SQL Server
Knowledge of EPI-INFO or any other data management application
Good communication and supervisory skills Knowledge of concepts in temporal databases
Report writing skills

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, must be self-motivated, flexible with due attention to details and a team player.
Candidates who meet the requirements above should submit their applications enclosing a detailed CV, quoting current and expected remuneration and providing contact details of three referees to the address below by July 15, 2011.

applications should be sent to jobs@aphrc.org with the position applied for written on the subject line. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

The Human Resources Officer
African Population and Health Research Center
P.O. Box 10787-00100 GPO, Nairobi
www.aphrc.org