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

Overall Job Function

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

Key Responsibilities

• 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 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 DHIS
• 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 audit for quality patient management and report
• Contribute in the review and/or development of monitoring and evaluation tools and systems that are responsive to data needs
• Organise and/or participate in SI related capacity building activities targeting CHS staff; health facility staff; and other stakeholders
• 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 review of 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 facility and county level
• Participate in research studies that may be undertaken by CHS or any of her 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 by CHMTs and CHS
• Provide advice to MoH through participation in relevant technical working groups
• Document best M&E practices and disseminate the same to relevant stakeholders
• Provide lead 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 stakeholders forums or conferences on health and give presentations during these meetings

Person Specification

• A bachelor’s degree in public health, biostatistics, statistics, monitoring and evaluation or an equivalent academic qualification from a recognized institution.
• At least three years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS care and treatment, PMTCT, TB/HIV, HTC and VMMC programs in Kenya