Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, August 23 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Project information and scope:
• Howard University international incorporated, under the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Global Health Consortium (GHC) is a PEPFAR funded Non-Governmental Organisation that Leverages on health service equity approaches to achieve sustainable HIV epidermic control and prioritizes sub population with unmet needs through evidence-based approaches designed to transform clinical HIV practice.
• Howard University’s mandate in Zambia is to support the Ministry of Health (MOH) in implementation of Differentiated Service Delivery (DSD-plus) in selected high-volume public health care facilities. The goal of this mandate is to improve Quality of ART care, improve viral load coverage and suppression, continuity of treatment & adherence, linkage to care, pharmacovigilance system, compliance with appointment system and to facilitate clinic decongestion through a multi-disciplinary team approach.

Key performance areas
• Design, Improve and expand data tools for use at provincial, district and facility level in data capturing and reporting
• Develop and Implement Evaluation plan
• Stay Informed of best M&E Practices and support their application at facility level.
• Strengthening M&E Framework by ensuring that all Data officers as well have a clear understanding of indicators.
• Ensure that data collected from health facilities is accurate and consistent by providing technical support on daily, weekly, and Monthly
• Ensure data is collected from all the implementing institutions/facilities daily, weekly, and monthly and follow up all implementing institutions/facilities that have not submitted data and provide required technical support
• Conduct Internal Verification Check of Monthly Reports within 2 days (48 hours) of submission date.
• Obtain corrections upon identification of data quality issues, within 24 hours of submission of queries, or within PEPFAR reporting deadlines for end-of-months.
• Design and maintain aggregate stats database.
• Maintain repository (paper-based and electronic) of all Monthly Reports and collation tools.
• Contribute to the data quality and verification activities planned in the province
• Display updated and analyzed performance indicator graphs
• Analyze, interpret, and use information for remedial interventions to optimize patient care and facility performance.
• Develop action plans in collaboration with District and facility staff in the district for indicators that reflect poor performance
• Provide monthly feedback to District and facility staff regarding Data quality (timeliness, completeness, and accuracy of data) of related indicators highlighting good performance and service delivery shortcomings
• Ensures security of data by use of back-ups weekly
• Provide data to management when needed for decision making
• Monthly inputs to provincial, district and facility reviews meetings on data quality (emphasizing timeliness and completeness) and performance with recommendations to optimize data quality
• Spot checks weekly on: Recipient of Care clinical record reviews
• Verifying that data in the registers and on the new Patient Locators forms correlate

Qualification and Experience
Minimum Required Qualifications and Experience:
• Grade 12 Certificate
• Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Computer Science, Public Health or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years’ work experience with at least 1-year experience in managing
• HIV/AIDS-related data, including data verification / quality assurance
• 2-year experience in working with MOH data management/M&E systems (from patient-record level to DHIS2 level)
• At least 2 years’ experience in Data management analysis, report writing, Data Presentation and data dissemination
• 1 year experience in working with SmartCare and able to trouble shoot, run reports, and provide technical assistance.
• At least 2-year data collection or entry experience in the health sector
• Skilled in MS Office, including Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook and MS Access
• Experience with donor programs is required.
• Experience with SmartCare required
• Background in research, monitoring, and evaluation and/or other data management field
• Strong knowledge of HIV/AIDS

Technical And Behavioural Competencies
• Confidence & Self Control
• Ethics and Integrity
• Initiative
• Professionalism
• Planning and organizing

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
• Send cover letter and resume to howardhbcughc@gmail.com  (Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted)
• Closing date: August 31st, 2023

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