National Stakeholder Engagement Advisor, KHMIS II at Palladium International

Project Overview and Role:

Funded under the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through a cooperative agreement with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, KeHMIS II supports the Kenya Ministry of Health and county governments to implement technological innovations in health information systems. These innovations include the development and scale up of electronic medical records systems for clinical decision support and improved patient care, the development of the Kenya National Data Warehouse (NDW), a centralized data repository of information from EMRs for analysis and reporting, the development of an interoperability layer to support the exchange of information across syst ems, and numerous other innovations including patient identification using smart cards, informatics solutions to support health surveillance, and mHealth solutions to support data collection at the community level.

The National Stakeholder Engagement Advisor will report to the Deputy Chief of Party and work closely with the Stakeholder Engagement and Capacity Building Team Lead to further support full GoK ownership and sustainability of the KeHMIS-supported HIS products. This role will primarily be based at the Ministry of Health to advocate for HIS utilization and allocation of resources by MOH and other stakeholders for routine HIS activities and HIS technical support. The National Stakeholder Engagement Advisor will collaborate with different technical working groups, committee of experts and other partners to ensure that needs from priority program areas such as Key Populations (KP), HIV Testing Services (HTS) and Maternal and Child Health (MCH) are sufficiently add ressed in the HIS solutions and advocate ownership of these solutions within MoH.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Advocate for the use and roll out of the HIS products. This will include ensuring that the KenyaHMIS project is represented at both MoH HIS Department and NASCOP-led meetings;
• Oversee the EMR migration from MOH end, including advocating for expansion of KenyaEMR functionalities;
• Convene all relevant stakeholder meetings for HIS development and enhancement including: KP, HTS/PREP, MCH Modules and document action points. This will also include follow up with the relevant Palladium KeHMIS project units on agreed work to ensure that the deliverables are achieved in a timely fashion;
• Advocate for resource allocation for HIS adoption, use and sustenance by the National Ministry of Health and Counties;
• Ensure project-related communication to stakeholders are owned and sent via MOH- approved channels, portals and emails;
• Ensure data from HIS initiatives directly contribute to M&E at the national level;
• Be the MOH link person for all evaluations that are supported by the KeHMIS project;
• Ensure Palladium developed abstracts and manuscripts have relevant expert co-authors from MoH;
• Coordinate the review, finalization of design and content for monthly and quarterly reports by the MOH and ensure circulation to the MOH team and stakeholders;
• Advocate HIS data use and participation of Palladium in the relevant Program Committee of Expert (CoE) meetings.
• Promote the adoption of the Key Population HIS system;
• Contribute to quarterly and annual project reports for CDC and PEPFAR

Required Experience, skills and abilities

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Health Records and Information Management, Public Health, Information Systems Management or any relevant field.A Master’s in Public Health, Social Sciences or related field is desired;
• At least 10 years progressive public health experience and/or health information systems experience within the HIV/TB program in Kenya;
• Experience managing and/or deploying Health Management Information Systems to support PEPFAR priorities at National and County levels is required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must have a high level of detailed understanding of the structure and functions of Kenya’s HIV program;
• Must have a working knowledge of GOK systems that support PEPFAR priorities at national and sub-national levels;
• Must have experience and knowledge of the suite of Health Information Systems deployed to support the 95-95-95 cascade in Kenya;
• Must be able to lead through influence and excellent interpersonal engagements with members of national technical working groups, committee of experts, including donors and implementing partners;
• Must have demonstrable experience in working with both aggregate and individual level data to inform epidemic response;
• Must have excellent communication skills including written and oral communication skills.