POSITION: DATA OFFICER
REPORTS TO: FACILITY IN-CHARGE
LOCATION: NAIROBI, KENYA.
Background:
The Center for International Health, Education and Biosecurity (Ciheb) — Kenya is a local non-governmental organization collaborating with the Ministry of Health and County Health Management Teams to strengthen health systems for improved quality of healthcare in Kenya.
Ciheb-Kenya is collaborating with the county governments of Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale, Taita Taveta, Machakos, Makueni, Kitui, Nairobi, Kisumu, and Migori to support the implementation and expansion of high quality, sustainable, and comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs, and expansion of COVID-19 vaccination with funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).Through the County
Ownership and Networks to maintain Nairobi Epidemic Control (CONNECT) program,
Ciheb-Kenya and the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) are working on a
collaborative project towards the provision of high quality HIV prevention,
care and treatment services to select health facilities in Nairobi City County.
The project is therefore seeking for suitably qualified persons able to fill
the positions of the positions below. The positions will be based at the
various county health facilities in Nairobi within the County Health Services
Department and mainstreamed into the county structures.
Key Function:
Facility Data Officer
will be fully responsible for patient health records and patient information
management in the health facility.
Responsibilities
- Management
of patient filing system at the facility, this will include day to day retrieval
of patient charts, archival and safe storage of files and registers in all
service delivery points.
- Monitoring
to ensure complete documentation of patient files and registers including
filling of page summaries in all facility registers.
- Periodic
data reconstruction and computerization of patient information from files,
registers and other reporting tools to EMR.
- Data
entry and updating of patient information from data capture and recoding
tools to EMR.
- Conduction
routine data quality audit of facility records, all patient beneficiary
records and registers.
- Compile
and ensure timely submission of facility monthly MOH reports as well as
Program reports.
- Timely
and correctly upload all appropriate facility data into DHIS, DRAWS, 3PM,
National Data Ware House and other databases as may be required by the
program and MoH.
- Conduct
timely facility level data analysis and implement DDIU strategies for
purpose of facility data use.
- Disseminate
reports on a monthly, quarterly and on need basis to the facility
multi-disciplinary team.
- Monthly
update of ALL facility talking walls for facility progress review.
Reporting: Compile monthly MoH and PEPFAR/DATIM HIV-related reports
Qualifications
- College
Diploma with a specialization in Health Records and Information,
Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Public
Health Informatics, Statistics, or Mathematics
- Computer
proficiency particularly with the MS-Office suite
- Must
have enrolled in a Health Information and Records course at Diploma level
- A
good understanding of health data management
- 1
– 3 years’ experience in a health facility
How to Apply
Kindly send your
application that includes a cover letter and an updated CV including names of
three professional referees to CIHEBKENYA_Recruitment@cihebkenya.org on or
before 3rd December 2021. Applicants are
advised to include the title “DATA OFFICER”
on the subject line.
The Centre for
International Health, Education and Biosecurity (Ciheb) — Kenya is an equal
opportunity employer.
Only short-listed
candidates will be contacted.
