STATA Training Consultant at Widows and Orphans Empowerment Organization (WEWE)

Widows and Orphans Empowerment Organisation (WEWE) is a reputable national indigenous non-governmental organization implementing a USAID-funded Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) project called Local Partners Initiative for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Nigeria (LOPIN-2) in partnership with local and international organizations as well as different tiers of the Government of Nigeria at national, state, local and levels.

We seek application from qualified persons to fill the position below:

Job Title: STATA Training Consultant for WEWE LOPIN 2 Project

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers

Description

• Widows and Orphans Empowerment Organisation (WEWE) is a leading Nigerian Non-Governmental Organisation implementing a 5 year USAID funded “Local Partners Initiative for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (LOPIN 2)’.  WEWE is soliciting for individual or consulting firm to carry out STATA Training:

Objectives

• WEWE is requiring a competent professional consulting firm to train staff on the use of STATA Statistical Package for data analysis
• The course is designed to train participants to be professional data analysts. Although targeted at monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) staff, the course should be designed for participants without or with very little experience using STATA
• It is expected that the consultant should capacitate the course participants to “talk” to STATA, import data to STATA, deal with missing data, manipulate data, run basic statistical routines, combine datasets, create communicative graphics, run regression models and present statistical results.

Scope of Work/Expectations

• This STATA course is focused on persons who may have little or no Statistics or Mathematics background to analyze data in STATA, choose the right descriptive statistics technique and write up the result of the findings with confidence
• The trainings should cover everything from entering data into STATA to interpreting the result and offer easy step-by-step guide to mastering descriptive and inferential statistics in STATA
• The consulting firm should be able to take the trainees through the STATA interface, how to work the system and how to choose variable types and format in STATA
• The training will include entering data into STATA, sorting, editing and data cleaning. Learn how to create graphs, plots and charts using STATA and how to manipulate them to suit individual needs.

The scope of work also includes how to use the following inferential statistic techniques:

• Dataset from Raw Data: Using do-files, importing data (excel, CSV, public data source, e.g. DHS), Data cleaning, missing values, recoding, summarization, log files;
• Data manipulation: Generating new variables, using the “by” command, creating dummy variables, combining data sets;
• Summary and descriptive statistics, correlation, student t-test, cross-tabulations and Chi-square tests.
• Graphics, including overlaying two graphs and combining two graphs.
• Regression and Inferential Analysis
• This is expected to be a 5-day in-house training

Qualifications
A successful consulting firm should have the following expertise and experience:

• Minimum five to ten years of experience in designing, planning and facilitating training for development organizations.
• Experience in STATA implementation and analysis.
• Experience with USAID funded project

Working Relationships:

• The consult firm will be expected to work in collaboration with WEWE M & E Director and specifically WEWE-LOPIN 2 M&E staff.

Application Closing Date
25th June, 2018.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates (consulting firm) should send their comprehensive CV's or company profile with detailed resume in only one attachment (MS word document) explaining suitability for the job to: stataconsultant@weweng.org Kindly indicate the title of the consultancy you are applying for in the subject line of the e-mail and include functional e-mails/mobile phone numbers and full contact information and at least three professional referees.

Note: WEWE will not cover any cost incurred for attending the interview if shortlisted.