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Job Summary
Job Title:
Data Products Assistant
Employer:
Pollicy
Location:
Country:
Contract Type:
Full-time
Job Category:
Information Technology Jobs
Number of Positions:
1
Deadline:
Tuesday, 26 March 2024
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Kampala, Uganda
Pollicy is a dynamic, data-driven technology company focused on empowering citizens and enhancing government accountability through the use of technology, data, and digital tools, with a mission to foster transparent, responsive, and inclusive governance across Africa. Known for its innovative approach to policy advocacy and data collection, Pollicy has earned recognition as a leader in civic tech, creating impactful solutions for data literacy, public participation, and open data. The company promotes a collaborative and inclusive work culture that values creativity, innovation, and diversity, offering employees opportunities to grow in an environment that encourages learning, skill development, and meaningful contributions to societal change.
Since its founding, Pollicy has evolved into a key player in the civic technology space, applying cutting-edge technology to solve real-world problems through data-driven insights. With an expanding presence across the continent, the company works with governments, international organizations, and civil society to drive social impact and improve governance processes. Pollicy operates on a business model that focuses on partnerships, digital solutions, and consulting services to influence policy decisions and foster accountability. Guided by core values of transparency, collaboration, innovation, and inclusion, Pollicy is committed to corporate social responsibility initiatives that promote good governance, empower marginalized communities, and advocate for data rights. For more information, visit www.pollicy.org.
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Full-time
Deadline:
26 Mar 2024
Data Products Assistant job at Pollicy
Pollicy
Job Description
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
Qualifications, Education and Competencies
Pollicy is an award-winning East African feminist civic technology collective. Our work and research spans across the use and implementation of data and technology to engineer social change. In the recent past, we have researched ways through which Africans can take back control of their data and reimagine new ways of tech ownership.
About the Role
Reporting to the Data Products Lead, your role as Data Products Assistant is to drive innovation by contributing to the ideation, development, and refinement of impactful data products that address real-world challenges. In this role, you will collaborate with a dynamic team to analyse data, generate insights, and play a pivotal role in the creation of cutting-edge solutions.
You will be accountable for producing analytics solutions that unlock business insight and enable impactful decisions driving immediate value. The initiation of the role is Create Product roadmap with short-term and longer-term milestones aligned with Pollicy strategy of data utilisation through an information-centric approach and craft better life experiences by harnessing improved data; define project organization’s methodology (internal vs outsourced, agile vs waterfall).
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Data Product Support:
Working with our Data Products Lead to identify, assess, and implement new innovative data products and tools
Contributing to ongoing projects such as consultancies or in-house projects that require data support. You should therefore have foundational knowledge of data science and how it can be applied to address real-world problems.
Data Analysis:
Conduct data analysis to derive valuable insights, trends, and patterns to inform decision-making.
You should therefore have an excellent understanding of statistical techniques or at least a deep understanding of descriptive statistics
Community support:
Work with our Engagement Lead in Uganda or Project Coordinators in various countries to coordinate meetups, workshops, and events related to data and analytics.
Where necessary, assist in organising and conducting training sessions either physically or virtually, helping others enhance their data skills.
Where necessary represent Pollicy at events, conferences, and seminars, sharing insights and expertise in the field of data.
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Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics).
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Proficiency in data analysis tools and programming languages (e.g., Python, R, SQL).
Strong technical skills such as Deep learning, NLP, Information Retrieval, Geospatial
Analysis, etc
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team and manage multiple tasks effectively.
Willingness to share knowledge with others.
Why Pollicy:
Opportunity to work on impactful data projects.
Collaborative and innovative work environment.
Professional growth and development opportunities.
Competitive compensation and benefits package.
Interested candidates are invited to submit their portfolio or similar document/webpage such as GitHub profile showing projects they have contributed to or individual projects that have worked on that showcase their skills and qualifications for the position to recruitment@pollicy.org Please include the subject: [Your first Name] Data Assistant Application line.
