Data Manager
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
DATA MANAGER
LVCT Health is an established Kenyan NGO that
is renowned for the implementation of health programs at scale in Kenya.
Through its vision of Empowered Healthy Communities,
LVCT Health is a leader in designing and implementing innovative HIV prevention
and treatment approaches, sexual and reproductive health and gender-based
violence programs reaching the most vulnerable populations. LVCT Health works
with the government and other stakeholders at the national and county levels.
The USAID Stawisha Pwani is a 5-year program funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to increase the use of quality county-led health services in four Coastal counties of Kilifi, Kwale, Mombasa and Taita Taveta. The aim of the program is to strengthen county health systems with a focus on HIV Prevention & Treatment, Family Planning, Reproductive, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (FP/ RMNCAH) and Nutrition. The program will support the four county governments toward sustainability in quality and systems of health services. The program objectives are:
- Increased demand for and access
to quality HIV prevention services.
- Increased demand for and access
to quality HIV treatment services.
- Use of quality FP, Reproductive,
Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health and Nutrition services
(FP/RMNCAH)
- Strengthened capacity of county
health systems, local partners and communities to deliver quality health
services.
LVCT health seeks to fill in the following
position: –
POSITION: Data Manager
REPORTING TO: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
LOCATION: Coast Region, Kenya
DM/LVCT/03/2023
Job purpose
The Data Manager will provide day to day
management of data issues to the project, giving various approaches to data
retrieval, cleaning, collation and preliminary data analysis to identify
potential data anomalies. The data manager will also support data quality
improvement efforts to the project. The incumbent will ensure availability of
quality data for surveillance monitoring, evaluation and learning to the
organization, the Ministry of Health, funding agencies and stakeholders at both
national and county levels.
The position will be contracted initially for
one year inclusive of three months’ probation period and renewable thereafter,
depending on availability of funding.
Responsibilities
- Lead retrieval, cleaning,
collation and organization of data from various sources and organizing it
to answer various research questions and for population of summary
reports.
- Support development of tailored
dashboards and reports for specific audiences depending on their data use
needs for program performance assessment and decision making.
- Write and run appropriate queries
from the databases and assist in implementing database developments that
meet the data requirements for the project.
- Test any new data management
processes and systems, and advice the HMIS unit on ways to improve them.
- Prepare quarterly, semi-annual
and annual data summaries to be included in reports to the Ministry of
Health and funding agencies.
- Contribute to the design of
collection protocols and/or SOPs.
- Design and approve forms for data
collection.
- Support quality improvements by
performing descriptive data analysis and data quality assurance checks to
detect anomalies and advise the quality improvement teams with action
points.
- Contribute to data quality
capacity building efforts within the organization and the Ministry of
Health.
- Contribute to dissemination of
results through peer-review publications.
- Archive data.
- Any other duties as maybe
assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics,
Mathematics, Computer Science or related fields is required. Additional
Master’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Demography, Data Science,
Statistics, or Biostatistics will be an added advantage.
- Must have least four (4) years of
experience in statistical computing with quantitative heath data
- Must be proficient in MS Excel
and at least two statistical software packages e.g., Stata, R, SAS, SPSS,
and EpiInfo.
- Must be able to write and run
queries for management and retrieval of data from databases, e.g., MySQL
scripting language syntax.
- Understanding of routine health
data and health information systems in Kenya.
- Understanding of data quality
assessment tools and methods, and experience in addressing data quality
issues related to routine health information data.
- Proficiency in analyzing and
interpreting routine and non-routine data, and effectively communicating
results and findings.
- Knowledge of data analytics and
visualization tools, techniques, and methods.
- Excellent problem-solving skills,
ability to work with all levels of internal staff and ability to be
flexible in handling multiple priorities.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates are
invited to submit their applications and CV along with a cover letter
expressing interest and indicating Salary
history and expectations to recruitment@lvcthealth.org . The position
applied for and reference number should be clearly indicated on the subject
line and cover letter; Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
The closing date is March
23, 2023. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
LVCT Health is an equal opportunity employer.
Please visit our website http://www.lvcthealth.org for
more information about the organization.
LVCT Health DOES
NOT CHARGE any fee whatsoever in any part of the
recruitment process.
LVCT Health is committed to preventing any type of unwanted
behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, stigma
and discrimination of individuals of various diversity, lack of integrity and
financial misconduct. LVCT Health expects all staff and volunteers to share
this commitment. Failure to adhere will result in disciplinary action.
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