Data Manager Job at Policy Innovation Centre (PIC)

The Policy Innovation Centre (PIC) is the first national institutionalised behavioural initiative in Africa supporting government and stakeholders to make behaviourally informed decisions and generate evidence for impact driven interventions in critical thematic areas (Governance, Health, Gender & Social Inclusion, Education, Digital & Financial Inclusion). The PIC is positioned to support the delivery of better policies and innovative solutions for high impact interventions across Africa. The PIC is an initiative of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), a leading think tank in Africa redefining evidence based policy advocacy.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Data Manager
Job Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Contract

Job Summary

• The PIC is seeking a Data Manager to oversee quantitative and qualitative datasets, ensure data integrity, clean data, and prepare datasets for analysis and reporting working closely with other members of the data analysis team.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the management of quantitative and qualitative datasets from multiple sources, ensuring completeness, consistency, and reliability.
• Develop and maintain secure databases and data storage systems that meet organizational and donor data governance standards.
• Implement version control and backup procedures to safeguard data integrity and accessibility.
• Conduct comprehensive data cleaning, verification, and quality checks to identify and correct inconsistencies, errors, or duplicates.
• Apply validation rules and coding protocols to ensure standardized datasets across research and programme activities.
• Coordinate with field teams to resolve discrepancies and ensure timely submission of accurate data.
• Prepare datasets for analysis, ensuring appropriate labeling, formatting, and documentation of variables.
• Merge, transform, and organize data to meet analytical and reporting requirements.
• Develop and maintain metadata, data dictionaries, and codebooks for all project datasets.
• Work closely with data analysts, researchers, and monitoring teams to ensure smooth data flow from collection to reporting.
• Support the design and testing of data collection tools (e.g., electronic survey forms, mobile data systems).
• Provide technical assistance to project and field teams on data management procedures and best practices.
• Enforce data management protocols that comply with ethical standards and data protection regulations (including NDPR and GDPR where applicable).
• Conduct periodic audits to assess data quality, completeness, and adherence to research protocols.
• Maintain confidentiality and ensure restricted access to sensitive or personally identifiable information.
• Support the preparation of data-driven reports, dashboards, and visual insights for internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure that data storage systems are efficient, secure, and user-friendly for the organization’s research and programme needs.
• Train project and field staff on data entry, cleaning, and quality assurance processes.
• Contribute to knowledge-sharing efforts by documenting best practices and lessons learned in data management.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, Demography, or other relevant quantitative or analytical field.
• Minimum of 5–8 years of professional experience managing large-scale quantitative and qualitative datasets within research or development programmes.
• Proven experience in data cleaning, validation, transformation, and preparation for analysis and reporting.
• Strong understanding of data management principles, database design, and data governance frameworks.
• Experience working with data management and analysis software such as Excel, Stata, SPSS, R, SQL, Power BI, or Python.
• Familiarity with digital data collection tools and platforms (e.g., KoboToolbox, SurveyCTO, ODK, etc).
• Demonstrated ability to ensure data integrity, security, and compliance with data protection regulations.
• Experience collaborating with research, M&E, and technical teams to align data workflows with project objectives.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with keen attention to accuracy and detail.
• High professional integrity, commitment to confidentiality, and ability to manage multiple datasets under tight deadlines.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Professional development opportunities.
• A supportive and collaborative working environment.

Please send your CV on no more than 2 A4 pages (Minimum font size 10) AND an accompanying covering letter of no more than 2 pages (Minimum font size 10) answering the following questions:

• What is your motivation for wanting to join the PIC?
• What are the top three key attributes you would bring to the PIC?

Note

• Only qualified candidates will be contacted.
• PIC may be unable to notify every applicant of the result of their application. If you have therefore not been contacted within 8 weeks of the closing date, then you should assume that your application has been unsuccessful. However, we may retain your data and contact you for future openings that match your skills and competencies.
• Equal employment opportunity statement: PIC is an equal employment employer. We do not engage in practices that discriminate against any person employed or seeking employment based on race, colour, religion, gender, disability, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, genetic information or any other status or characteristic protected under applicable laws.