Yahya Ahmed Nkrumah
General Manager
Profile
Yahya Ahmed Nkrumah is currently the General Manager in charge of project design and implementation at JMK Consulting Ltd. He is a statistician with over ten years of experience in data management, data analysis and quality assurance. He specialises in project data design, collection, analysis, and reporting at JMK Consulting. He has been the data expert and quality assurance manager at JMK in most M&E assignments conducted for several organisations such as Social Impact, T-TEL assignments, ActionAid, Socioserve, Bigwin, Ministry of Education, Winrock International, Bigwin Philanthropy, etc.
He is also an expert in areas of capacity building in research and data collection. He has trained researchers at the Ministry of Education, GES, GTEC, NaSIA, COTVET and other education agencies under the auspices of the Education Reform Secretariat. He has also provided electronic data collection training for other organisations, such as Skills Development Funds (SDF), JMK Consulting, BMSR, etc., using electronic data collection and Quality Assurance techniques.
He has specialist skills in programming languages, advanced knowledge in Excel and the development of Microsoft BI Dashboards vital for quality control and field data monitoring. He has been an expert in designing questionnaires and other protocols on mobile data collection platforms using Excel Visual Basic Application (VBA), Open Data Kit (ODK) and XLFORMS at JMK. Further, he has specialised training in Data management and Analysis using R, STATA, Python and SQL.
Core Areas
Data Science
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Project Design and Implementation
Capacity Building in Research
Expertise
Data design, collection, analysis, and reporting
Quality assurance in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assignments
Training researchers in electronic data collection and quality assurance techniques
Programming languages (R, STATA, Python, SQL)
Knowledge in Excel and Visual Basic Applications (VBA)
Microsoft Power BI and Tableau
Designing questionnaires and mobile data collection protocols using ODK and XLForms
