Strategic Information Officer at Centre for Health Solutions - Kenya (CHS)

CHS/HR/STP/SIL/001/2024

Overall job function

Reporting to the Strategic Information Lead, the Strategic Information Officer will be coordinating all Strategic Information field-related activities for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services, and HIV/TB services and provide constant feedback to both the technical and program teams including health care workers in health facilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical support in the design and implementation of SI activities; required to act as a link between CHS and SCHMTs on both paper and electronic prevention, VMMC, care, and treatment data-related issues
• Provide technical support to CHS-supported health facilities in the collection, collation, analysis, and reporting of health information to relevant stakeholders using national reporting systems
• Support the uploading of facility EMR data into the National Data Warehouse (NDWH) and KHIS
• Support in troubleshooting EMR-related challenges and working with the HIS and ICT teams to resolve
• Support the implementation of web-based and mobile health solutions to facilitate real-time data transmission and reporting.
• Support EMR data cleaning and monitoring of daily data entry into the systems through regular data quality audits for quality patient management and report
• Contribute to the review and/or development of monitoring and evaluation tools and systems that are responsive to data needs
• Build the capacity of HRIOS, HCWs, and other stakeholders on M&E requirements
• Work closely with other CHS staff and stakeholders to strengthen systems for monitoring patient outcomes; monitoring quality of care; tracing patients who default; data quality assurance; and data collection, collation, analysis, and dissemination
• Provide expertise in developing and/or reviewing indicators for monitoring and evaluation of program performance
• Ensure timely and proper implementation of the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) monitoring and evaluation guidelines including roll out of new tools in all CHS-supported facilities
• Strengthen data utilisation for decision-making at the facility and sub-county levels
• Participate in research studies that may be undertaken by CHS or collaborating partners
• Provide technical lead in quarterly data feedback to county health management teams and health facilities
• Participate in joint quarterly support supervision of health facilities as may be organised by CHMTs and CHS teams
• Provide advice to MoH through participation in relevant technical working groups
• Document best M&E practices and disseminate the same to relevant stakeholders
• Provide leadership in timely collection, cleaning, and reporting of quarterly and other routine data to donors and other stakeholders
• Respond to ad hoc requests for collection and analysis of data when need arises
• Participate in regional and national stakeholder forums or conferences on health and give presentations during these meetings.
• Respond to ad hoc requests for collection and analysis of data when need arises
• Participate in regional and national stakeholder forums or conferences on health and give presentations during these meetings.
• Any other duty as may be assigned by your supervisor.

Person Specification

• Bachelor’s degree in Health Records, Statistics, Information Technology, Data Science, M&E, or other relevant qualification from an accredited institution
• Master’s degree in Epidemiology, Statistics, Health Informatics Monitoring and Evaluation or equivalent will be an added advantage
• Experience in programming software, advanced data analysis, and management tools like STATA, R commander, SPSS, and EPI-Info will be an added advantage
• At least three years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS care and treatment, PMTCT, TB/HIV, and HTC programs in Kenya
• 5 years’ PEPFAR-funded work experience and familiarity with MOH and PEPFAR data reporting and strategic information activities
• Expertise in qualitative and quantitative methods, operations research, health management operations systems and data quality assessments
• Proficient in microsoft office packages, IT skills, data analysis, and management skills
• Dedicated team player with excellent interpersonal, communication, problem-solving skills, capacity building skills, report writing, analytical skills, and presentation skills
• Ability to work on own initiative, prioritise, organise competing workloads, and multitask to meet reporting timelines.