Our client seeks a Strategic Information Health Informatics Officer to work on the recently awarded, five-year USAID/Zambia Integrated Health (ZIH) contract. ZIH will support the USAID and PEPFAR objectives of 95/95/95 and providing service delivery and technical assistance to improve Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (RNMCH) and Family Planning & Reproductive Health (FP/RH) services.

REPORTING STRUCTURE
Reporting To: Senior Strategic Information & Health Informatics Officer
Supervision Of: Team
Interacts With: Team, Managment, Stakeholders

JOB DESCRIPTION
Ensure timely collection and reporting of quality data at district level
Provide daily progress updates to the technical team through ensuring dashboards are available and updated for performance tracking
Support the weekly High Frequency Reporting and monthly reporting by ensuring clean data is timely available for the reporting
Lead facility/community and district level weekly, monthly and Quarterly data verification in accordance with the AMELP and data verification SOPs
Support program Quality Assurance through monitoring service delivery to ensure optimal need based integrated services are offered to clients
Supervise data entry clerks to ensure high-quality data inputs and outputs into the systems and from the systems
Collaborate with SmartCare eHMR Coordinators in monitoring SmartCare performance and timely response to systems challenges including downtime to proactively mitigate its impact on quality reporting
Support the SIM Director in development/ updating of data collection tools, guidelines and standard operating procedures as needed
Work in Collaboration with SI and technical teams in preparation of Monthly and Quarterly reports
Support the Strategic Information Senior Advisor in training and mentoring of District Health Office teams in data analysis and use for performance monitoring
Conduct regular joint site level supportive supervision with District Health Office teams to ensure quality service delivery and reporting
Provide training, mentoring and coaching to data collectors and data entry clerks on use of data collection systems, tools, indicators and reporting requirements
Train information system users and support roll-out of health information systems as relevant.
All other duties as assigned as relevant to the technical skills and scope of work
Employees comply with all company policies and procedures, including completing all compliance training topics by the deadline to satisfy each and receiving the corresponding acknowledgment statement that the training has been completed.

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATION
Experience: 6 years plus
Education Level: Degree
Qualifications: Bachelors Degree in Public Health, Social Demography or population studies, Health informatics, Data science or other related analytical degrees
Software: Demonstrated expertise in DHIS2 and cloud-based data management, Strong data mining, analytics, and visualization skills using STATA, PowerBI ; with experience with programming language(s)
Knowledge Of: MERL principles, including qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, tracking outcome indicators
Skills To: Strong data mining, analytics, and visualization skills using STATA, PowerBI ; with experience with programming language(s) is a plus. Strong facilitation, training and coaching skills
Ability To: Demonstrated expertise in DHIS2 and cloud-based data management, at least 3 years of experience in system roll-out, configuration and usage
Other Requirements: A minimum of 5 years’ work experience implementing monitoring, evaluation activities, preferably for USAID/PEPFAR funded HIV & AIDS/ TB, FP/RH, MNCH projects in Zambia

ORGANISATION
Industry: NGO
Culture: Dynamic
Gender Profile: Mixed
Age Profile: Any

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Employment: Contract
Location: Copperbelt, Zambia
Remuneration: Negotiable