POSITION: DATA OFFICER
LOCATION:
MIGORI
REPORTS TO:
DATA MANAGER
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 health care 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).
Job Summary
The Data Officer will be responsible for data collation, entry, validation, program monitoring and reporting in the program reporting systems, 3PM, KHIS, DATIM, DREAMS and other online reporting innovations from all the supported health facilities.
Duties &
Responsibilities
- Provide
complete, timely and accurate data and reports.
- Conduct
thorough validation logic on submitted data by facility health records
officers
- Provide
timely feedback to the SI team and facility records officers based on
identified site-specific data quality gaps and poor performance
- Produce
monthly data summaries to track and inform programmatic performance
against targets
- Prepare
PowerPoint presentations as requested by the program team, MoH and CDC
- Serve
as a reliever for facility records officers by ensuring an up to date EMR
and reporting compliance
- Offer
on-site support on EMR and provide technical guidance to facility records
officers; on need basis
- Ensure
utmost security to program data
Qualifications and
professional skills
- Bachelor’s
degree in Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information system
Management, Statistics, Informatics, epidemiology or related field
- 3
years’ experience in HIV program data management or relevant health
related field
- Technical
expertise regarding data models, database design development,
data mining and segmentation techniques
- Strong analytical
skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and
disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail
and accuracy
- Adept
at queries, report writing and presenting findings
- Advanced
computer skills in Ms-Office suite including advanced Ms-Excel and
Ms-Power point
- Knowledge
of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analysing
datasets (STATA, R, Excel, SPSS, SAS, etc)
- Team
player with strong analytical capability
- Ability
to work under extreme pressure with minimal supervision
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.orgon or before 23rd January 2023.
Applicants are advised to include the title “Data
Officer – Migori on the subject line.
