Vacancy title:
Strategic Information Assistant
Jobs at:
Right to Care ZambiaDeadline of this Job:
Wednesday, February 21 2024
Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, February 08 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
About Us
• Right to Care is at the vanguard in supporting and delivering prevention, care, and treatment services for HIV and associated diseases. We work with government and communities to find pioneering solutions to build and strengthening public healthcare. We embrace a strong entrepreneurial culture and focuses on innovation and the use of technology to enhance services, address skills shortages, and deliver quality healthcare outcomes. Our areas of expertise include HIV and TB care and treatment, pharmacy automation, medical male circumcision, and cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment.
• In 2021, Right to Care Zambia was awarded a five-year project funded by USAID through the PEPFAR mechanism. The USAID Action HIV project aims to reduce HIV mortality, morbidity, and transmission by achieving the UNAIDS and PEPFAR goal of 95/95/95 HIV treatment coverage by providing comprehensive HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment maintenance services in Luapula, Northern and Muchinga provinces of Zambia. The USAID Action HIV project will work closely with and in support of the Ministry of Health
Qualifications And Experience
Minimum Required Qualifications and Experience:
• Ordinary level (GCSE)/ Grade Twelve Certificate
• Diploma in IT, Public Health, Social Sciences, or relevant field from a recognized institution.
• At least 2 years’ prior work experience in related field.
• Skilled in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and MS Access.
• Experience working with SMART CARE
• Working knowledge of HIV/AIDs client data management.
Desirable Qualifications and Experience:
• Degree in IMIS, ICT or Social sciences
• 1-year experience in M&E related field
Technical And Behavioural Competencies
• Accountability, Adaptability and Flexibility
• Communication
• Cultural Awareness
• Creative and Innovative Thinking
• Planning & Organizing
• Professionalism
• Results Focused, Quality of Work & Accuracy
• Teamwork
Key Performance Areas
• Capturing all relevant patient data relating to TB/HIV services from paper files onto the relevant electronic/paper patient
• register/database daily, including data relating to audits, current visits as well as data relating to past visits (historical data).
• Recording statistics relating to daily work performance (‘data entry stats’), to enable line manager to manage the employee’s work performance.
• Managing the correction of errors and double-checking of queried data on the relevant electronic/paper patient register database within stipulated periods of identifying and/or receiving queries.
• Ensuring that data corrections and/or obtaining of missing data in individual patient files, both electronic and paper files are
• Performed within stipulated time frames.
• Capturing and cleaning data in databases for evaluations done by line managers
• Collaborating with Data staff in compiling reports.
• Identifying and consolidating duplicate patient files, both electronic and paper files.
• Participate in data collection from supported satellite facilities in the region.
• Retrieval of patient files and ensuring the quality of collected data, including data entry and management is of high standard.
• Performing Transfer of data to servers.
• Communicating with research teams about relevant project issues and provide updates.
• Ensuring ethical research procedures are adhered to and complied with.
• Managing interpersonal relationship with facility staff at research sites and ensure minimal disruption to normal health facility activities.
• Attending to ad hoc duties as directed by line manager.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 24
Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree
Job application procedure
• Applications in the form of a cover letter and CV must be submitted to Vacancy12@righttocare.org
• All applicants are required to complete an online competency assessment accessible using this link– https://my.assessio.com/right-to-care-strategic-information-assistant-x2
• Only applicants that complete the two steps above will be considered.
• Please specify the facility name in the subject line of your email.
All Jobs
Join a Focused Community on job search to uncover both advertised and non-advertised jobs that you may not be aware of. A jobs WhatsApp Group Community can ensure that you know the opportunities happening around you and a jobs Facebook Group Community provides an opportunity to discuss with employers who need to fill urgent position. Click the links to join. You can view previously sent Email Alerts here incase you missed them and Subscribe so that you never miss out.