Lead Data Analyst / Statistician (Remote)

About this role

AIDHealth is seeking a remote Lead Data Analyst/Statistician on a part-time contract to support a baseline data collection and analysis project. The role targets a professional with extensive experience in complex survey data, design of samples and weights, and expertise in Stata or R, able to work remotely to deadlines.

What you would do

• Finalise sampling frame, stratification, power calculations and minimum detectable effect with the partner.
• Prepare enumeration-area maps and household listing procedures for 160 enumeration areas.
• Review baseline questionnaire for measurement quality and skip logic.
• Build design and non-response weights for baseline panel of 2,400 parents.
• Construct and validate outcome indices and estimate intra-cluster correlations.
• Produce tables and charts for Baseline Report, draft pre-analysis plan, deliver clean baseline dataset, codebook and reproducible scripts (Stata or R).

What they are asking for

• Master's degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Econometrics, Epidemiology or related field (PhD preferred).
• At least 7 years of professional experience analysing complex household survey data.
• Experience designing multi-stage cluster samples and survey weights.
• Expert use of Stata and/or R.
• Preferred: panel or longitudinal surveys, causal-inference methods for observational data, evaluations of social/behaviour change, media, gender or GBV programmes, and survey work in Northern Nigeria or with Hausa-speaking populations.
• Skills: rigour and transparency in code and documentation; ability to explain statistical results in plain English; ability to work remotely to fixed deadlines.

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