Company Profile

Esoko is building Africa’s leading community management platform for the delivery of digital services to the rural areas in Africa. We have been a pioneer in the mobile for Agriculture space in Africa and are positioning ourselves to become the leading community platform for rural transactions. We see ourselves as building a kind of “CRM” for rural Africa.  We therefore require the services of an experienced technical person to lead and support the evolution of Esoko’s technology platform in pursuit of the company’s strategic direction.

We’re a highly motivated group of 30 based in Accra, Ghana.

The Esoko Product

Esoko has been helping enterprises manage rural communities since 2008. Traditionally focussed on content services to farmers, the platform now provides powerful data collection tools, biometric profiling, analytics, as well as communication services. The short to medium term goal of the company is to help our partners solve fundamental flaws linked to paper-based data collection systems. Our solution combines mobile 

Job Description

Summary of Role
Esoko is seeking to employ a competent individual for the role of Data Analyst to join our team. You will take responsibility for managing our master data set, developing reports, and troubleshooting data issues. To do well in this role you need a very fine eye for detail, experience as a data analyst, and a deep understanding of the popular data analysis tools and databases.

Responsibilities

• Manage master data, including creation, updates, and deletion
• Provide quality assurance of imported data, working with quality assurance team, if necessary
• Process confidential data and information according to guidelines
• Help develop reports and analysis
• Manage and design the reporting environment, including data sources, security, and metadata
• Support the data warehouse in identifying and revising reporting requirements
• Support initiatives for data integrity and normalization
• Assess tests and implementing new or upgraded software and assisting with strategic decisions on new systems
• Generate reports from single or multiple systems
• Troubleshoot the reporting database environment and reports
• Provide technical expertise in data storage structures, data mining, and data cleaning

Required Skills or Experience

• Strong background in Statistics or Mathematics or Computer Science or Data Science or Economics or Agricultural Economics
• At least 3-5 years of experience analyzing large scale socio-economic data
• Ability to analyze existing tools and databases and provide software solution recommendations
• Ability to translate business requirements into non-technical, lay terms
• High-level experience in methodologies and processes for managing large-scale databases.
• At least experience in two of any of the software for data processing such as R, Stata, SPSS, Python. Knowledge in SQL/Databases will be an added advantage
• GIS and mapping applications (ArcGIS, QGIS, GPS receivers, remote sensing packages like Erdas Imagine or ENVI) will be an added advantage
• High-level written, presentation and verbal communication skills. Ability to present analysis in appropriate PowerPoint decks or other data visualization tools is a strong plus
• Have a consultative approach to problem solving for clients
• Passionate about working in a business with strong social impact and about innovative technology