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SENIOR STRATEGIC INFORMATION ASSISTANT |
JSI |
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Posted 2018-09-06 07:33:09
SAFE OVERVIEW
John Snow, Inc. (JSI) seeks highly qualified and
accomplished public health professionals for the recently awarded United States
Agency for International Development (USAID) PEPFAR-funded Supporting an
AIDS-Free Era (SAFE) Project in Zambia. The five-year project which will be led
by JSI in partnership with Abt Associates, mothers2mothers, and the Catholic
Medical Mission Board, will work to reduce HIV mortality, morbidity and
transmission, while improving nutrition outcomes and family planning
integration in three provinces: Central, Copperbelt, and North-Western. USAID
SAFE will work with the GRZ, private sector and civil society institutions at
the national, provincial, and district level to increase access to ART for HIV
positive adults and children, reduce the incidence of new infections, improve
Nutritional Assessment, Counseling and Services (NACS) and family planning
services, and increase the capacity of local health institutions to better
serve affected populations.
Position Title: Senior
Strategic Information Assistant
Supervisor: Senior
Strategic Information Officer
Contract: Full time/
fixed Term Contract (6 months)
Location: Central
Province
POSITION PURPOSE
Building a robust culture of data use including data
management is an integral component of the HIV/AIDS program implementation,
especially on initiating adults and children who test HIV positive. To achieve
the required standards of data quality and management, SAFE requires the
services of Senior Strategic Information Assistants (SIA) to assist with
HIV/AIDS monitoring and evaluation in Zambian government health facilities
across all the districts in Central Province. The senior SIA will be critical
in enhancing data use for decision making amongst existing facility based teams
of SAFE supported clinicians, volunteers, professional counsellors and SIAs.
Whilst the Senior SIA shall be reporting primarily to SAFE Senior Information
Officer, S/he will also be reporting to the District Health Information
Officer/Hospital Information Officer/Health Facility Officer in Charge
administratively. The Senior SIA will regularly travel to other facilities
within the District to provide onsite supervision and support in data
collection, data analysis, data review meetings and ensuring that high quality
clean data is available to guide the project at both the facility and district
level.
VACANCIES AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING DISTRICTS
AND HEALTH FACILITIES
1.
Chibombo – Liteta Hospital (2)
2.
Itezhi-tezhi -Itezhi-tezhi Hospital (1)
3.
Kabwe – Kabwe General Hospital (2)
4.
Kapiri Mposhi – Kapiri Urban Clinic (2)
5.
Mkushi – Mkushi District Hospital (1)
6.
Mumbwa – Mumbwa District Hospital
(2)
7.
Serenje – Senrenje Urban Clinic
(1)
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Senior SIA will work in close collaboration with the
District Health Information Officer/or Hospital Information Officer and/or
Facility in Charge in the management of HIV related data, including compilation
of daily, weekly and monthly reports and analysis, data verification and data
entry related to patient care and to perform all necessary functions and
obligations as defined and delegated by these supervising officers. He/she will
be required to perform the following duties:
Leadership
§ Work
with District Health Information Officers (DHIOs) with guidance from the project’s
Senior Strategic Information Officer to implement the JSI SAFE M&E system
With support from Senior Strategic Information Officer, the Senior SIA will
lead the District efforts to improve the use of facility data either from
Electronic Health Records (Smart Care) and/or paper records in managing clients
and reporting.
§ Provide
leadership in the implementation of the project’s provincial M&E plan.
Conduct monthly supervision of SIAs within their assigned District
§ Provide
technical support to facility staff and health workers in HIV/AIDS data
management
Build capacity in data use among SIA and facility staff Supervision at
Facilities for Site Level M&E support
§ Ensure
the SIA’s contribute as an integral member of a larger facility based team of
SAFE supported clinicians, volunteers, and professional counsellors.
§ Ensure
that documentation is complete in all HIV related registers across all
facilities in the District
§ Ensure
that all facilities are using the Electronic Health Record System (Smart Care),
as needed, for reporting
§ Provide
leadership in ensuring that all SIAs have a system in place to inform clients
and maintain appointment dates for next visitation with clinician.
§ Ensure
that the facility filling system adheres to the set data management standards
§ Provide
leadership in updating HIV/Care cards for all activities and events for clinic
days (where still in use).
Provide leadership in maintaining constant feedback with health facility
pharmacy staff on patients who have collected their drugs at commencement.
§ Support
the SIA’s in developing data use culture working in close supervision with the
facility in-charge, conduct monthly data review meetings
Project Reporting
§ Monitor
the consumption of stationery and request in advance of anticipated stock needs
across all facilities
§ Coordinate
the compilation and transmission of daily updates on key indicators to facility
and SAFE staff
§ Coordinate
the compilation of monthly reports for HIV/AIDS services and related Laboratory
and Pharmacy service statistics and submit monthly reports to Provincial SI
officers and respective DHIO’s/Health information officer.
§ Reconcile
HMIS reports with SAFE monthly summation (This applies to indicators are that
part of MoH SAFE tracking)
§ Ensure
that data is Verified before submission to SAFE SI/or MoH information officer
Coordinate the physical count of active clients on ART on a monthly basis
§ Participate
in data verification exercises, checking the data records at other facilities.
§ Perform
any other HIV-related data collection duties as assigned by the supervising
officer of the health facility and/or SAFE SI Officers.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
§ Knowledge
of Health Management Information System (HMIS)
§ Knowledge
of HIV/AIDS information systems
Strong background in HIV/AIDS data analysis
§ Previous
experience working as a data entry clerk for at least 3 years
§ Three
years working experience in the health sector
§ Degree
in statistics, computer science, monitoring and evaluation, social sciences,
project management or related field desired
§ Experience
working with MS Access, Excel and Word
§ Proven
ability to design and manage monitoring and evaluation systems on development
projects
§ Demonstrated
capacity to facilitate training workshops on M&E with local organizations
§ Ability
to travel at least 40% of the time
§ Knowledge
of USAID M&E Reporting systems
SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION
§ Please
send application via email to: SeniorSIASafeRecruitment@gmail.com
§ The
subject line must specify the District name and facility you are applying for;
only those applications that reference the position in the subject line will be
reviewed.
§ Your
application should consist of a cover letter and CV with three references and
full addresses and contact information.
§ The
closing date for receiving all applications is 10th September
2018.
Please ensure that you mention
www.gozambiajobs.com as the source of this job advertisement.
*Please note that hard copy applications will not be accepted and
only shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 14 days from the close if
the advert.
To apply for this job email your details to SeniorSIASaferecruitment@gmail.com