JOB OPPORTUNITY

Zambart is an independent Zambian research organization whose headquarters is at the University of Zambia’s Ridgeway Campus in Lusaka. Zambart is globally renowned for its interdisciplinary research on HIV and Tuberculosis and has contributed to HIV and TB policy and practice at national and global levels. Zambart’s research portfolio now includes a broader scope of urgent public health issues. Zambart staff form an interdisciplinary team with a range of expertise including epidemiology, clinical science, social science, laboratory, operations research, health systems and services research, health policy analysis, health economics, health communication and counselling.

Zambart’ s vision is to conduct quality interdisciplinary health research on issues of public health importance Zambia and contribute to improving health policy and practice leading to better health for all.

Our mission is to contribute to global public health policy and practice through the generation of an evidence based by conducting high-quality health research in Zambia.

Ubumi Bwandi Project

The Ubumi Bwandi project aims to screen all community members in Mapalo (population ~50,000) aged 15 and older for tuberculosis and in addition offers a wide range of health prevention services. All services are offered in (1) Mapalo health facility, (2) a community and (3) outreach activities. For data collection we use a web-based Microsoft .Net application with an MS-SQL Server database and we make use of the routine health care data collected at the health facility.

To support the wide range of activities for the Ubumi Bwandi project, we are looking for an ambitious, suitably qualified candidate to fill the following exciting position that has arisen:

Position: Data Manager (1)

Location: Ndola

The appointed data manager will be stationed at the community hub in Mapalo Ndola and will be accountable to the Ubumi Bwandi study manager and the head of Research Data and Statistics department in Lusaka.

The Key roles and responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• In charge of Installing and maintaining data infrastructure: hardware- and software, connectivity, data protection.
• Monitor the progress of data collection (M&E)
• Monitor the quality of data collection in close collaboration with the study staff in Mapalo
• Will be responsible for all data cleaning/corrections
• Collect and compile routine health care data from the clinic and reconcile all discrepancies with the district M&E teams (TB notification and suspect register, lab registers, TPT-registers and other conditions)
• Analyse and write the data component of the quarterly reports to the funder including uploading of data into DHIS2
• Provide daily feedback to study team in Ndola and provide weekly feedback to study management in Lusaka

Essential Requirements

• Aged 25 or older
• BSc degree in computer science, data science, health-informatics
• 3-5 years’ experience in the field of data management and monitoring & evaluation using relational databases and mobile data collection tools
• Proficiency in SQL
• Ability to critically interrogate the quality of data
• Experience of working with health systems data and patient records

Desirable:

• A master’s degree in computer science will be an added advantage but not a must
• Experience working in a (public health) research setting
• Experience in using DHIS-2, the statistical package Stata or R
• Experience in programming data collection tools (questionnaires)

A short practical test will be part of the application procedures. Please include two to three references to your application.