Position: Data Analyst for the Child Protection and Social Services Development Reform Initiative
Company: Alinea
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent

SURGe Project is looking for a Data Analyst who will provide support to the Reform Initiative and the Ministry of Social Policy in fine-tuning the Social Education Platform, ensuring data collection, its analysis and visualization for different presentations and reports

At Alinea International we value equity, diversity and inclusivity in everything we do. We are an equal opportunity employer opposed to all forms of discrimination. We actively seek and encourage applications from people of diverse backgrounds recognizing that an inclusive workforce enriches our organization and achieves smarter, more innovative results.

Alinea is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. Given the nature of our work, candidates will be subjected to due diligence checks and to enhanced background checks as appropriate.

About Alinea International Ltd.
Alinea is an international development consultancy providing technical and management expertise that helps people improve their lives. We work with governments, investors, companies and communities to create lasting change. Over 35 years, Alinea has successfully delivered more than 515 projects worldwide. www.alineainternational.com  

About the Project
In October 2019, Alinea International launched a new five-year project in Ukraine: Support Ukraine
Reforms in Governance (SURGe). SURGe is a technical assistance project in Ukraine, funded by Global Affairs Canada and implemented by Alinea International Ltd.

SURGe’s Ultimate Outcome is to help the Government of Ukraine (GoU) to deliver governance and economic reforms that better respond to the needs of its citizens. 

To achieve this, the Project will strategically enhance and strengthen the GoU’s reform management functions, namely its capacity to undertake planning and analysis of reforms that consider citizen impact and to implement these reforms.




Reform initiative and position summary
Through this Reform Initiative, SURGe supports the Government of Ukraine with implementation of the National Strategy of Reforming the Institutional Care and Upbringing of Children for 2017-2026. SURGe is working with the Ministry of Social Policy on developing state standards and guidelines on social services provision and building the capacity of local governments and service providers to deliver services most needed by the population during the war and early recovery. 

The major goal of this Reform Initiative is to build the capacity of communities for better management of social services locally to ensure that families have the support they need, and that each child is protected by the state and raised in family-based care.

To achieve this goal, SURGe Project is looking for a Data Analyst who will provide support to the Reform Initiative and the Ministry of Social Policy in fine-tuning the Social Education Platform, ensuring data collection, its analysis and visualization for different presentations and reports.

Key Responsibilities
Support the Ministry of Social Policy with administration of the Social Education Platform, ensuring its proper functioning and finetuning based on the feedback received from its users and desires of the Ministry.
•	Perform data mining, data exploration and data transformation tasks to enable data analysis, modeling and reporting within the monitoring of the Reform Initiative’s efforts and achievement of the tasks of the National Strategy. 
•	Use statistical tools to analyze and interpret data set patterns and insights. 
•	Keep well documented track of findings (trends, patterns, correlations, etc.).
•	Design and implement data quality assessment processes, including automated procedures, on an ongoing basis.
•	Prepare concise ad-hoc data reports and data visualizations that will help effectively communicate trends, patterns, and predictions using relevant data and support the decision-making process.
•	Assist the Ministry and the Reform Initiative team with development of new analytical tools and methods along with preparing presentation materials and supporting documentation as and when required. 

Academic Qualifications and Experience:
Mandatory: 
•	3+ years on data analyst position. 
•	Knowledge of database structures, normalization, de-normalization and entity relationships. 
•	Experience in business analysis.
•	Fluency in English and Ukrainian.
•	Strong data manipulation and data analysis skills.
•	Strong attention to detail as well as good problem solving, time management, and logic skills.
•	High mathematical aptitude.
•	Experience with Excel, BI and data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau etc.).
•	Awareness of presentation design techniques and trends, strong knowledge of PPT.
•	Citizen of Ukraine.

Desirable: 
•	Social sector and children’s rights protection area knowledge and understanding of current challenges in Ukraine in this sector.
•	Experience in distance learning platforms development and operationalization.

The duration of the contract is 6 months with a possibility of extensions (subject of approval and implemented deliverables during a previous deployment).

For contracting (after the job offer is made), the selected candidate is expected to be registered as a Private Entrepreneur of the 3d group (consultancy services).