Data Management Assistant at Jhpiego

Reporting to the Data Manager, the Data Management assistant will be responsible for the management of all the project data at the Lake Cluster (Kisumu, Migori and Kisii Counties).

S/he will also assist with the data management capacity building for the project team and partners; maintain project PMP and ensure data quality.

S/he will ensure completeness of data capture tools, timely data entry and upload of data from the facilities offering Oral Prep in the Lake Cluster.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and maintain the health management information system for the Jilinde project in the Cluster
• Support Jilinde facilities in having the most current data capture and reporting tools
• Facilitate On-The-Job training and mentorship to project, County and health facility staff on data capture, reporting and HMIS
• Assist in developing the system documentation, and SOP’s, ensure that data is entered and uploaded on time from the HMIS system to the reporting server
• Coordinate weekly and monthly timely and accurate data reporting by all Jilinde supported facilities to the Sub County, project and DHIS2
• Support the Cluster manager ¡n all the data needs of the Cluster including trouble shooting the Jilinde HMIS
• Assist the Data Manager in developing the reporting summary tools and help generate the electronic summary for routine reporting
• Providing support in database management at the cluster level to meet project data requirements
• Assist to gather technical updates for project planning, monitoring, evaluation and research
• Ensure that all the cluster tools, data files, analysis files, reports and presentations are stored in the storage archive
• Support the counties to conduct data quality assessments (DQA)
• Assist in the preparation of the weekly, monthly, quarterly and/or annual reports
• Perform other programmatic, technical and administrative duties as necessary and as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, statistics or related field
• 2 years experience in monitoring and evaluation, data management and analysis of health / research project and/or HMIS work
• Experience in managing health information systems
• Knowledge in SQL concepts such as queries, triggers, views and stored procedures
• Demonstrated experience in implementation of M-health solutions e.g. EMR
• Excellent analytical, oral and report-writing skills
• Proficiency in use of data analysis tools such as Excel, SPPS
• Experience in use of data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau or Excel.