Data Associate at UpEnergy

About the Role

• UpEnergy is at a time of exciting growth, expanding both in terms of product and geographic portfolio. In the context of our expansion in the Nigerian market, we are looking for an experienced Data Associate who is passionate about our mission and motivated by the challenge to help UpEnergy meet targets in a new key market.
• The Data Associate will be responsible for supporting in-country data activities, this will include providing quality control support to data teams to ensure compliance with carbon crediting programs and requirements and also providing operational support on carbon activities.
• This role will not only require someone who is very organized, and capable of managing large datasets but has a good understanding of data analysis and management in projects, has good interpersonal and leadership skills and likes conducting research, and testing out new ideas.
• The Data Associate will also have the opportunity to actively participate in key operational projects to advance UpEnergy’s business in Nigeria.
• This role will report to the Data QC Officer and also correspond with the distribution Team. The role is based in Abuja, Nigeria.

 

 

 

Key Responsibilities

Sales & Data Analysis:

• Designing and maintaining a filing system for hard and soft copies of documents at the office and Dropbox respectively.
• Consolidation and reconciliation of weekly sales by comparing downloaded data against scanned receipts.
• Ensuring the delivery, sorting, and distribution of hardcopy sales receipts to the responsible data team members. I.e. scanning team, D-receipts and Partner receipts.
• Collect, analyze, evaluate and report data in order to increase sales productivity.
• Work with management to provide customized reporting that will inform management recommendations.
• Support marketing research to determine end-user demand which will inform product sourcing decisions and price setting.
• Support marketing function with data analysis where required ·
• Using automated tools to extract data from primary and secondary sources of the UpEnergy databases and take appropriate action.
• Flagging corrupted data and fixing coding errors and related problems to a standardized format needed by the department.
• Using statistical tools to identify, analyze, and interpret patterns and trends in complex data sets could be helpful for the diagnosis and prediction of business decisions.
• Providing quality control support to data teams to assess and validate compliance of sales data to carbon requirements.
• Other administrative support may include but not limited to handling the office customer care line and controlling the issuing of receipt books to the sales team.

 

 

 

 

Requirements

• Relevant Degree
• 2+ years of experience in research, data management and climate change-related projects
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills would be a plus
• Experience in survey development and management (familiar with Kobo-Collect, ODK, among other mobile data collection platforms)
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills
• The ability to speak other Nigerian languages will be an added advantage.

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