Data Quality Assurance Officer

Data Quality Assurance Officer

1. The Data Quality Assurance Officer will support real-time monitoring of data quality during the Mock Census. The role will focus on identifying data issues early, supporting field teams to correct errors, and assessing whether the digital data quality tools are strong enough for deployment during the main census.
2. Key Responsibilities
3. Monitor and assess data quality during the Mock Census Exercise.
4. Review incoming data for completeness, consistency, duplicates, partial interviews, missing values, unusual patterns, and other quality concerns.
5. Use dashboards, reports, and data quality monitoring tools to track field performance and identify areas requiring follow-up.
6. Compare mapping/listing outputs with enumeration progress to support coverage validation.
7. Support checks on whether listing completion is consistent with enumeration completion.
8. Identify Enumeration Areas, supervisors, or enumerators with recurring data quality problems.
9. Provide timely feedback to supervisors, ICT teams, and technical teams for correction of identified issues.
10. Support the preparation of daily data quality summaries, issue logs, and recommendations.
11. Assess whether the data quality management tools, reports, and indicators are adequate for the main census.
12. Document lessons learned and propose improvements to strengthen the main census data quality framework.
13. Minimum Requirements
14. Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Information Technology, Data Science, Computer Science, Demography, Economics, or a related field.
15. Experience in data management, survey operations, census operations, data quality monitoring, or digital data collection.
16. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
17. Ability to work with digital data, dashboards, reports, and monitoring tools.
18. Knowledge of CAPI systems, GIS-CAPI integration, or data validation processes will.