Job Summary:

PROJECT SUMMARY

Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) is a five-year global project funded by the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The goal for EpiC is to achieve and maintain epidemic control through strategic technical assistance to improve HIV prevention, case finding, care, and treatment programming in countries supported by PEPFAR. EpiC is led by FHI 360 with core partners Population Services International (PSI), Palladium Group, Right to Care, and Gobee Group. In Malawi, EpiC focuses on key and priority populations in the HIV program.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Health Informatics Specialist will be part of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team for the Epic program and will work under the supervision of the Senior M&E Advisor. He/she will provide overall technical leadership on the development, implementation and maintenance of the DHIS2 trackers/databases for program monitoring. The position will manage interoperability of country office DHIS2 tracker with national reporting systems. He/she will manage and maintain servers and configure updates to DHIS2. The position will also lead capacity building to the project staff and implementing partners to ensure high reporting rates in the system and data use for decisions. He/she will use APIs to pull data into data visualization softwares such as PowerBI. Possession of GIS skills will be an added advantage.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and design a functional DHIS2 tracker database for collecting, organizing and analyzing individual-level client service uptake across HIV continuum of care.
• Develop, modify and maintain forms and interfaces for data entry into the DHIS2 trackers and create specific report formats and reporting tools as per project specifications and guidelines.
• Build the capacity of project staff and the implementing partners in database utilization, data management and reporting.
• Work with the rest of M&E team to coordinate data entry of service and training data at the implementing partners’ level.
• Extract data and share with the M&E team for analysis and reporting to ensure continuous program performance improvement and meet reporting requirements.
• Prepare and extract monthly performance data from the DHIS2 tracker for entry into EpiC’s global DHIS2 aggregate ‘Infolink’ database and for data visualization using Power BI.
• Establish rules and procedures for data sharing with upper management, external

  stakeholders etc.

  • Design and implement interoperability mechanism between country office DHIS2 tracker and national HIV data reporting systems for key populations.
  • Provide technical support in management of all project databases and electronic platforms to meet reporting requirements.
  • Manage and maintain servers and configure updates to DHIS2 tracker databases.
  • Perform other job-related duties as assigned by the supervisor and program leadership.

    KNOWLEDGE, SKILL, ABILITIES, EXPERTISE AND COMPLEXITY

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    ⚠️ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰: 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐖!

    • Experience in setting up, implement and maintain DHIS2-based databases and other management information systems including the use of electronic medical records (EMR).
    • Experience in building the capacity of project staff, implementing partners and other stakeholders in database use and general data management standards.
    • Experience in data cleaning, extraction and exporting for analysis and reporting.
    • Experience in conceptualizing and developing digital health solutions is an added advantage
    • Ability to maintain data security and confidentiality for the program beneficiaries.
    • Working knowledge of USAID and Malawi ministry of health data requirements and information systems such as DATIM and other reporting platforms.
    • Good planning and organizational skills.
    • Tact and diplomacy in dealing with implementing partners.
    • Knowledge in GIS will be an added advantage.

      MINIMUM REQUIREMENT STANDARDS

      • Master’s degree in Information Technology with 3-5 years’ experience or Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Biostatistics, Mathematics or related field with 5-7 years’ experience.
      • Computer proficiency in word processing, databases, spreadsheets, including advanced skills in DHIS2 customization, MySQL, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MS Access, Excel.
      • Demonstrated experience with Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) including DHIS2.
      • Comprehensive understanding of HIV/AIDS Programming and PEPFAR indicators.

        Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge through informal and formal trainings.

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