Dickson Ochichi Suguku
Statistician and Data Analyst
Kisumu,Nyanza
Summary
i) To provide high-quality service to my employees, my colleagues and the community at large. ii) To be able to work in any kind of research programme; collecting and handling data to achieve the required objectives. iii) To work with an organization that promotes the growth and development of its employees and upholds work ethics in serving the community at large.
A bold, creative and highly motivated person aiming at excellence in a challenging, productive and satisfying career in the statistics sector and focused on becoming very competitive in the field of statistics and monitoring projects. Great and inner passion for the use of any M&E tools and statistical software in handling data.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
2
2
Languages
Work History
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Manager
Vibrant Village Foundation
Kisumu
01.2023 - Current
- Supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation team
- Work planning and management of the data management team including the M&E assistants, attachés and interns
- Coaching and professional development of the monitoring and evaluation team through regular training, planning meetings and troubleshooting sessions
- Assignment of duties and supervision of the work quality of the M&E assistants.
- Oversight of Data Collection Activities
- Work with the program teams in the design and testing of various data collection tools that are aligned to the key program indicators
- Design data collection protocols and guidelines and ensure that they are adhered to during all data collection activities
- Training, testing, equipping and appropriately assigning duties to data collection teams
- Field supervision, spot checking and quality control of all data collection activities and processes to ensure collection of data of the highest quality
- Incorporating feedback from the field and program teams in the improvement of data collection instruments
- Data Collation, cleaning, analysis and Reporting
- Ensure the security of all data in the custody of VVF-Kenya, with strict safeguards of the identification details of the program participants
- Verification and correction of errors in all data collected to ensure highest levels of accuracy and reliability
- Maintaining a zero-tolerance policy for errors to maintain the highest standard possible of data integrity
- Provide data analysis and reporting on key program indicators and other reports that may be needed on a case-by-case basis
- Design and maintain an organization database that keeps track of all data collected and ensures all stored has foolproof protections including by use of passwords and encryptions
- Lead in the design of the organization dashboard and ensure that it is always updated with accurate details
- Administrative duties and responsibilities
- Liaison with external consultants contracted for M&E-related activities
- Participate in capacity building of program and administrative teams on M&E, tools, systems and processes
- In charge of the register of VVF-K's electronic assets and software licenses
- Ensure the M&E framework is updated to date to adequately support the evolving programmatic and administrative needs
- Work with the program and administration teams to incorporate the M&E plans in the annual program work plans
Data Manager
Vibrant Village Foundation
Esabalu-Vihiga County
01.2019 - 12.2022
- Data Team Management
- Leading the data department to ensure accurate and reliable data across all programmes
- Managing, coaching and developing a data assistant team through regular trainings, planning meetings, and troubleshooting sessions.
- Quality-control and supervision of data entry/corrections, with zero tolerance for data entry errors
- Management and coaching of data attachees
- Resolution of escalated queries via Freshdesk and errors via Zapier
- Supporting and training field officers on new systems programmes
- Writing queries using MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Data Analysis and Reporting
- Creation of weekly reports and Tableau dashboards for the organization
- Data analysis and report writing for organization Impact reports and trials
- Designing and testing new data process improvements via Zapier
- Data analysis using RStudio and R statistical software
- Administration/ Integrations of Data Systems
- Zapier administration - creating, managing and maintaining integrations across organization platforms
- KoBo Collect - configuration of forms and management of data delivered through Kobo
- Freshdesk- Maintain ticketing system for management of issues reported to the office
- Maintenance of organization assets and software licenses (antivirus, cleaning and configuring)
- Maintaining data integrity across programmes - particularly phone records.
Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant (Data Management)
Vibrant Village Foundation
Esabalu-Vihiga County
09.2017 - 12.2018
- Database administration and configuration
- Managing Vibrant Village Foundation MYSQL Database for farmer repayments
- Cleaning, verifying and importing of weekly data collections to the database
- Creating and disseminating farmer repayment reports
- Developing MYSQL database integrations with Zappier and Telerivet
- Maintaining user and database security
- Data collection, entry and analysis
- Involvement in M & E field activities including designing of survey tools, doing data collection, data quality control and data oversight (spot checks and back checks)
- Managing data collection files using online storage (KoBo Collect)
- Data manipulation using Excel
- Data analysis using SPSS and R.
Intern
Vibrant Village Foundation
Esabalu-Vihiga County
04.2017 - 08.2017
- Coordination of M&E data collectors and casual data entry staff, including:
- In-field coordination of key M&E activities, with an eye to perfect quality standard
- Quality-control and supervision of data entry, with zero tolerance for data-entry errors
- In-field follow-up on errors to ensure quality data across all project
- Assisting in data management, including:
- Manipulation and verification of collected data - including, data cleaning, basic analysis and quality control
- Managing data collection files, using online storage (KoBo Collect)
- Collection, analysis and reporting on internal Key Performance Indicators
Industrial Attachment and Post Attachment
KEFRI-Maseno
Maseno
05.2016 - 03.2017
- Designing of data collection tools
- Data Entry, Data Cleaning and data manipulation
- Data analysis and reporting
- Reporting in field observations from demo plots
Education
Master of Science - Statistics
Maseno University
12.2022
Bachelor Science - Applied Statistics with IT
Maseno University
12.2016
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - undefined
Hema-Chitago Secondary School
12.2011
Kenya Certificate of Primary Education - undefined
Biombe Primary School
12.2004
Skills
- Design of data collection tools
- KoBo Toolbox
- ODK
- CSPro
- M&E
- MEAL
- MEL frameworks
- Data cleaning
- Data Manipulation
- Microsoft Excel
- Data Visualization
- Tableau Software
- Microsoft Power BI
- Data Analysis
- SPSS
- Stata
- R
- RStudio
- Minitab
- GenStat
- Fieldwork supervisions
- Report writing
- Presentation
- Research
- Data Management
- MYSQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- Data Technologies
- Project Management
- Proposal writing
- Leadership skills
Certification
- Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau, Duke University (Coursera), 2018-01-01
- Certificate in proposal writing skills, Tropical Institute of Sustainable Development, 2016-01-01
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Swahili
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Leadership Experience
- Chairman, Society of Applied Statistics Maseno University, SASMU, 2015/2016
- Vice Chairman, Society of Applied Statistics Maseno University, SASMU, 2014/2015
Personal Pledge
I aim to work smart to be able to obtain the relevant skills and become sufficiently proficient in the field of Statistics and any related field so that I can provide service of the highest quality to men for the glory of God.
Core Values
- Flexible
- Respects leadership
- Participation in teamwork
- Determined to get the best results
References
Available upon request.
Hobbies and Interests
- Playing with data
- Reading journals
- Socializing
- Travelling
- Hiking
Software
Tableau, Power BI, Looker
R, R Studio,
Python, QGIS
CSPro, ODK, KoBo Collect
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Dbeaver
Timeline
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Manager
Vibrant Village Foundation
01.2023 - Current
Data Manager
Vibrant Village Foundation
01.2019 - 12.2022
Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant (Data Management)
Vibrant Village Foundation
09.2017 - 12.2018
Intern
Vibrant Village Foundation
04.2017 - 08.2017
Industrial Attachment and Post Attachment
KEFRI-Maseno
05.2016 - 03.2017
Master of Science - Statistics
Maseno University
Bachelor Science - Applied Statistics with IT
Maseno University
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - undefined
Hema-Chitago Secondary School
Kenya Certificate of Primary Education - undefined
Biombe Primary School