Strategic Information Officer job at CIDRZ

Vacancy title:
Strategic Information Officer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Health Care , Category: Computer & IT ]

Jobs at:

CIDRZ

Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, April 04 2024 

Duty Station:
Within Zambia , Lusaka, South - Central Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, March 28 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Job summary
• Reports to Senior Strategic Information Officer. The incumbent is responsible for development of data collection tools, aggregating and management of data for various programmatic performance monitoring and research studies. He/she will also be responsible for coordination with partner organizations to support data management projects.

Main duties
• Designs and develops data collection tools for the programmatic and research projects.
• Designs and creates routine performance monitoring tools and reports.
• Ensures that weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for supported projects are submitted on time.
• Extracts routine and ad hoc datasets for programmatic and research studies.
• Develops SOPs for handling research and programme data.
• Participates in data collection and QA/QI activities.
• Takes part in departmental planning activities.
• Mentors Data Coordinators, Data Associates, and Research Assistants in efficient ways to manipulate and use data.
• Mentors Data Coordinators, Data Associates, and Research Assistants on the definition of all performance monitoring indicators.
• Participates in the presentation of data to various internal and external stakeholders.
• Trains staff on data collection and entry procedures and common errors/problems within the clinic and at other sites as requested.
• Performs basic to intermediate statistical analysis on programme and research datasets to meet donor and reporting requirements.
• Coordinates with staff from other organizations to conduct requirements gathering and provide technical support for health information systems supported by CIDRZ.

Qualifications
• Degree in Computing/ICT, Mathematics, Engineering, or related subject
• Experience in an M&E team working on PEPFAR MER indicators will be an added advantage.
• Database querying and management in any RDBMS, e.g. SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres etc.
• Medium to advanced skills in any data analysis tool e.g. R, STATA, Excel etc.
• Medium to advanced software programming skills in an object oriented or functional programming language.
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months:

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
• Suitably qualified candidates are invited to apply. However, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Zambia
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Thursday, April 04 2024
Duty Station: Lusaka
Posted: 28-03-2024
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 28-03-2024
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 28-03-2066
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