Position: Health Information System Officer (HISO)
Salary: Ksh 74,750 Gross Per Month
Department: M&E
Responsible to:Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Staff directly supervised: NoneSalary: Ksh 74,750 Gross Per Month
Department: M&E
Responsible to:Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Relationships internally: All programme and support staff
Relationships externally: MoMS / MoPHS personnel, other governmental and non governmental counterparts, community members
Overall Objective of the Position
The Field Officer-HIS is based in Kisii and will have responsibility for collection, collation, compilation, analysis, maintaining and dissemination of data on HIV testing and counseling, peer education intervention, prevention activities targeting youth and MARPs and other project related areas.
S/he will assist the Project Officer- M&E in establishing and strengthening a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system to measure programme progress and impact and establish effective lesson learning and beneficiary accountability mechanisms in the project area.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Ensure
data collection and entry of relevant data related to Merlin projects in a
timely manner, and feedback is given to the source of the data.
- Analysis
of collected data, make necessary visual presentation and give feedback to
each service delivery area [SDA]
- Assist
field health officer in collecting, collating and disseminating project
related data on time
- Ensure
MoH data tools (registers, forms etc) are correctly utilized, stored and
updated within Merlin project areas
- Assist
the Project Officer-M&E with the preparation and presentation of data
for internal and donor reports in a timely manner
- Ensure
availability of relevant data collection tools within the Merlin supported
project sites.
- Foster
ownership of data collection tools and related data by field officer[s]
and other field staff.
- Regularly
collect and at all times maintain in a user-friendly form all projects
data in a Merlin database.
- Ensure
data is segregated by gender and flag any gender disparities so as to
enhance gender sensitive programming.
- Perform
any other duty assigned by the supervisor
Job and Person Specifications
- Diploma
in Medical Records (KMTC), Higher Diploma/Degree in Health Information
Systems (Medical statistics)
- Experience
of over 2 years in health information systems support in an NGO
- Experience
data relation to HIV/AIDS prevention programs
- Knowledge
and experience in the use national MoH data tool
- Knowledge
of Access, EPI info, SPSS, KEMPS or similar data analysis programmes
- Professional
initiative, commitment and motivation
- Experience
in Health informatics tools for collecting, managing, analyzing,
processing and presenting health data
- Good
understanding of HIV related MoH reporting tools and other relevant
national tools
- Knowledge
Designing and developing health databases
- Knowledge
in the use of Innovative applications of information and communications
technologies (ICTs) in health
- Exposure
of Health information security issues and solutions
- Knowledge
of Legal and ethical issues in development and use of health information
systems
Data Protection
Please note, on submitting your application, you are agreeing to Merlin holding and using the information that you have given for the purposes of recruitment and employment – should an offer be made.
Where required by donors funding requirements, some job offers are conditional on our ensuring that potential employees’ names do not appear on counter terrorism lists generated by the United Nations, European Union or the United States.
On submitting your application, you are agreeing to Merlin using the information that you have given for checking that your name does not appear on these lists.
How to Apply:
Should this role be of interest to you, please send you application, clearly indicating “HISO – HTC, Kisii” in the subject line, to recruitment@merlin-kenya.org by 5pm on Friday, 20th April 2012.
Alternatively, you may wish to post your application to, HR Department, Merlin, Nairobi Office,
P.O Box 3350 – 00200, Nairobi, Kenya.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Please note, on submitting your application, you are agreeing to Merlin holding and using the information that you have given for the purposes of recruitment and employment – should an offer be made.
Where required by donors funding requirements, some job offers are conditional on our ensuring that potential employees’ names do not appear on counter terrorism lists generated by the United Nations, European Union or the United States.
On submitting your application, you are agreeing to Merlin using the information that you have given for checking that your name does not appear on these lists.
How to Apply:
Should this role be of interest to you, please send you application, clearly indicating “HISO – HTC, Kisii” in the subject line, to recruitment@merlin-kenya.org by 5pm on Friday, 20th April 2012.
Alternatively, you may wish to post your application to, HR Department, Merlin, Nairobi Office,
P.O Box 3350 – 00200, Nairobi, Kenya.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
