April 8th, 2022 at 09:41 am

TECHNICAL DEMOGRAPHER AT GSS

TECHNICAL DEMOGRAPHER AT GSS. The Ghana Statistical Service is the government agency charged with the responsibility of providing quality, relevant, accurate, and timely statistical information for the purpose of national development. It has offices in all the sixteen (16) regions of the country.

• The Service invites applications from qualified Ghanaians who are goal-oriented
  and results-driven to apply for the under-listed positions within the Service:
• Manipulate and present geographical information by developing programs to convert GIS information to other formats.
• Recreate geographical spaces using GIS techniques and remote sensing imagery.
• Integrate different geo-spatial data resources
• Analyze and integrate GIS data with other data sources to assess relationships across a wide range of socio-demographic, behavioral, spatial, environmental, and economic variables.

POSITION: TECHNICAL DEMOGRAPHER

JOB PURPOSE

• To provide technical support in data evaluation and analysis nuptiality, migration, Life Table, global health and mortality statistics of fertility

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop analytical frameworks using statistical methods and
  techniques.
• Design and collect a wide range of demographic, socioeconomic, behavioral, spatial, and environmental variables.
• Prepare and link large-scale datasets (e. survey data with census data; administrative data with surveys and censuses information).
• Analyze and interpret demographic variables.
• Write manuscripts, journal articles, and policy briefs.

QUALIFICATION

• A minimum of a Master’s degree from an accredited tertiary institution in any of the following: Demography, Population Studies, Sociology, Geography, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or related fields;
• Must have completed a one-year national service
• Must have at least two years’ work experience.

COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

• Analytical skills in Excel, Stata, SPSS, R. Spectrum, Mortpak. Demproj, CSPro, or any analytical software.
• Integration of complex survey designs and large datasets
• Data collection, management, and presentation skills

HOW TO APPLY

Interested and qualified applicants are to submit their application letters and CVs to the address below:

The Director
Human Resource Directorate
Ghana Statistical Service
P. O. Box GP 1098
Accra

OR

Via Email: gsadmin@statsghana.gov.gh

APPLICATION CLOSING DATE

The closing date of application is 18th April 2022

Qualified women and persons with disability are encouraged to apply.

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