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Responsibilities
The duties for this position may include, but are not limited to:
- Business Analysis
- Quickly understands the business issues and data challenges of client organization.
- The ability to utilize the product vision to define the requirements for the product.
- Supports planning and prioritization of the product feature backlog and development for the product solution
- Supports creation of product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
- Provides an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
- Supports backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
- Actively supports user acceptance test case development and testing
- Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
- Facilitate and negotiate sometimes competing interests of Business Owner and Technical teams
- Supports the design of meaningful data reports, dashboards, and other data visualizations
- The ability to understand the business and translate the business requirements into user stories.
- The ability to analyze the business need to create, update, and manage backlog stories.
- The ability to understand and explain business needs to the Development team, and the ability to explain why and how the system is built to business stakeholders
- The ability to manage competing priorities and escalate critical issues
- Understand the technical composition of the system and the interconnections with supporting systems.
- Provide logistical, knowledge management, and communications support for
- Record meeting notes and provide clear and concise syntheses of meetings and events as needed.
- Conduct research as needed on key technical topics.
- Prepare cost estimates, modifications, and/or contractual agreements.
- Liaise across all programs and portfolios to increase cohesion across project.
- Seek opportunities to identify more creative, efficient and effective ways to engage audiences and facilitate enhanced learning communities.
Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst
- Assist with leading Monitoring and Evaluation activities including data collection, preparing data for monthly and annual reports and assess progress towards project objectives.
- Assist with managing and improving quantitative data collection systems that facilitate project reporting.
- When needed, assist with perform qualitative data collection through key informant interviews, ranging from Washington DC practitioners, to USAID Mission staff in country.
- Identify and support activities to develop and test best practices for this project.
- Share project monitoring and evaluation learning with the project team and its stakeholders.
Qualifications
The candidate for this position must have:
- Effective communication and leadership skills
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Thorough understanding of agile processes. CSM certification is a plus
- Experience writing user stories, preferably following Behavior Driven Development (BDD) principles
- Experience working with tools such as JIRA or VSTS
- Ability to read data model documentation
- Ability to develop basic data queries and reports
Education and Other Skills
Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Systems or a related field or have gained experience equivalent to this educational requirement
Job Features
Job Category | Technical Specialist |
Security Clearance Required | Yes |
Travel Required | No |
Responsibilities
The duties for this position may include, but are not limited to:
- Business Analysis
- Quickly understands the business issues and data challenges of client organization.
- The ability to utilize the product vision to define the requirements for the product.
- Supports planning and prioritization of the product feature backlog and development for the product solution
- Supports creation of product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
- Provides an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
- Supports backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
- Actively supports user acceptance test case development and testing
- Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
- Facilitate and negotiate sometimes competing interests of Business Owner and Technical teams
- Supports the design of meaningful data reports, dashboards, and other data visualizations
- The ability to understand the business and translate the business requirements into user stories.
- The ability to analyze the business need to create, update, and manage backlog stories.
- The ability to understand and explain business needs to the Development team, and the ability to explain why and how the system is built to business stakeholders
- The ability to manage competing priorities and escalate critical issues
- Understand the technical composition of the system and the interconnections with supporting systems.
- Provide logistical, knowledge management, and communications support for
- Record meeting notes and provide clear and concise syntheses of meetings and events as needed.
- Conduct research as needed on key technical topics.
- Prepare cost estimates, modifications, and/or contractual agreements.
- Liaise across all programs and portfolios to increase cohesion across project.
- Seek opportunities to identify more creative, efficient and effective ways to engage audiences and facilitate enhanced learning communities.
Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst
- Assist with leading Monitoring and Evaluation activities including data collection, preparing data for monthly and annual reports and assess progress towards project objectives.
- Assist with managing and improving quantitative data collection systems that facilitate project reporting.
- When needed, assist with perform qualitative data collection through key informant interviews, ranging from Washington DC practitioners, to USAID Mission staff in country.
- Identify and support activities to develop and test best practices for this project.
- Share project monitoring and evaluation learning with the project team and its stakeholders.
Qualifications
The candidate for this position must have:
- Effective communication and leadership skills
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Thorough understanding of agile processes. CSM certification is a plus
- Experience writing user stories, preferably following Behavior Driven Development (BDD) principles
- Experience working with tools such as JIRA or VSTS
- Ability to read data model documentation
- Ability to develop basic data queries and reports
Education and Other Skills
Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Systems or a related field or have gained experience equivalent to this educational requirement
Job Features
Job Category | Technical Specialist |
Security Clearance Required | Yes |
Travel Required | No |
Responsibilities
The duties for this position may include, but are not limited to:
- Support the design and implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions developed in Tableau and other tools and services in the Microsoft Azure environment.
- Design, upgrade, and improve data warehouse schema and other semantic BI data sources.
- Design and develop ETL data functions to transfer organizational data into data warehouse environments.
- Develop and tune complex SQL queries for enterprise reports and dashboards.
- Code advanced SQL for Database Views and Stored Procedures.
- Resolve highly complex issues, conduct advanced research, and recommend innovations.
- Provide technical support and assistance to other team members.
- Assume the role of task coordinator on complex tasks support by multiple work teams.
Qualifications
The candidate for this position must have:
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience developing and maintaining databases and reports
- Experience as a BI or enterprise reports developer
- Experience in enterprise database or data warehouse design and development
- Experience with developing automated data extraction, transformation, and loading processes
- Working knowledge of BI technologies, preferably including SQL Server and Tableau/Power BI
- Experience in developing complex SQL queries
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to work in a team
- Good communication skills
Education and Other Skills
Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Systems or a related field or have gained experience equivalent to this educational requirement
Job Features
Job Category | Technical Specialist |
Security Clearance Required | No |
Travel Required | No |