Data Officer at Centre for Health Solutions - Kenya (CHS)

Key Responsibilities

• Support Strategic Information activities for HIV care and treatment, HIV testing Services, Prevention, of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT), Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC), PrEP, GBV, and community programs
• Assist in the maintenance of the routine program, donor, and MOH databases that include; the VMMC database, EID database, KHIS, DATIM, C-RIS, 3 PM, and DREAMS.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of M&E data tools for MoH and CHS program areas
• Monitor, review and validate data quality in all the EMR systems in use within supported sites
• Work closely with County Health Management Team (CHMT) to compile monthly and quarterly reports as required
• Support in the implementation and maintenance of facility-level patient databases
• Work closely with regional Strategic Information officers and other Program officers to manage data quality and ensure all the facilities utilize data for decision making
• Establishing and supporting a strong Data Demand and Information Use (DDIU) strategy with the development of monthly, quarterly semi-annually & annual facility and program performance slides for all supported sites.
• Strengthening data quality systems through routinely conducting data validation checks to ensure data queries and data entry errors in KHIS, CRIS, and DATIM are flagged out to foster concurrence and accuracy in all reporting systems.
• Prepare reports, dashboards, and other graphics summarizing program results in Power BI, excel, or any other platform.
• Developed and manage allocated live dashboard to facilitate program weekly, monthly, and quarterly progress review and donor quarterly progress review.
• Assist in the timely compilation, aggregation, and generation of weekly, monthly, and quarterly data reports to donors, the CHS program, and MoH.
• Perform data quality audits, data cleaning through M&E field teams, and verify data accuracy of the data before submission of all data reports
• Prepare accurate data to be entered in PEPFAR and CDC reporting information systems (DATIM, 3 PM, and C-RIS)
• Support the uploading facility EMR data into the National Data Warehouse (NDWH).
• Attend designated SI meetings at the national, county, and sub-county level
• Any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Person Specification

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in statistics, computer/IT studies, epidemiology, or mathematics
• At least four years of relevant experience in a similar/related position in a PEPFAR-funded program.
• Experience in working with MoH systems and HIV-related reports
• Strong Data management and analysis skills
• Strong SQL Data management skills
• Proficiency in computer packages for generating and analyzing reports. Experience in the use of visual analytics tools is an added advantage
• Expert skill level in the use of health aggregate databases (MoH DHIS2 & DATIM)
• Proficient in statistical analysis packages (SPSS/STATA/R etc.)