Job Description
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DATA ANALYST
USAID's Efficient and Effective Justice (EEJ) Activity aims at an improved justice system in Sri Lanka that meets the needs of society and upholds the rule of law. Its interventions are strategically geared toward introducing improvements to the justice system in the form of structured, well-functioning, and up-to-date mechanisms that will better equip legal and judiciary institutions. The EEJ Activity strengthens legal institutions and justice sector actors to reach international justice standards. To achieve this goal, the EEJ Activity works across the government, judiciary, legal, education, civil society, and public sectors to engage with key stakeholders. Thereby, the program will ensure that it strengthens the administration of justice, improve standards of legal practice and the rule of law, increase capacities of legal personnel and judiciary institutions, and increase public confidence in and access to the country's justice system.
Under the Model courts initiative, EEJ is supporting the courts nominated by Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to measure their case backlogs and the time taken from case filing to resolution. The purpose of this activity is to identify whether the courts are meeting the agreed time standards for concluding the cases and conduct regression analysis as requested by the EEJ team.
Anticipated Tasks of the Data Analyst
The Data Analyst is expected to complete the following tasks as instructed by the USAID EEJ Activity and/or its nominee.
- Review and clean the case data shared by the EEJ team.
- Visit the respective courts and validate the case data with the court staff.
- Analyze the case data using suitable statistical tools and assess whether the cases are meeting agreed case processing time standards.
- Based on the analyzed data, create user friendly data visualizations.
- Together with the EEJ team, present the data visualizations to relevant stakeholders and obtain feedback.
- Based on the case data, conduct suitable regression analysis, and forecast the case backlog reduction trends
Requirements
The Data Analyst should possess:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Statistics or any other relevant field.
- Understanding of the court case flow process would be advantageous
- Experience in conducting data analysis for surveys and research studies funded by donor agencies.
- Extensive experience in using SPSS/Minitab/STATA for statistical analysis.
- Experience in visualizing data using MS PowerBi and Tableau.
- Good Analytical skill
- Be able to maintain confidentiality of data
- Attention to detail
- Possess organizational skills, with an ability to stay focused on assigned tasks and meet the stipulated deadlines.
Start Date: This assignment is expected to be commenced on May 22nd, 2024.
Level of Effort: 48 LOE days
Application Instructions:
Please apply at the below link by the latest May 03rd 2024. Please attach a copy of your resume and cover letter as instructed. No telephone inquiries please. Chemonics will contact the finalists. [email protected]
Chemonics is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, age, or other legally protected characteristics.
