Strategic Information Specialist at The Center for International Health, Education and Biosecurity (CIHEB)

Job Summary

Under the supervision of the Strategic Information Advisor, the SI Specialist will provide technical assistance and capacity building to M&E and data management staff at Point of Service in support of SI activities. S/he will provide support to the M&E and data management components at the Point of Service level

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide specialized training to facility and other partner staff in Health Information Systems including the Kenya EMR, Web ADT and other databases
• Provide mentorship and capacity enhancement to site data officers, HRIOs and M&E teams on HIV-related M&E systems
• Provide support and data analysis training to health facility staff with a focus on the use of HIS and mHealth solutions capitalizing on use of the Kenya EMR modules for optimal information support to facility healthcare workers
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting to both the program and donor
• Conduct routine data management including data collection, collation, analysis and presentation both to program and other stakeholders
• Ensure availability of national M&E HIV-related tools in supported facilities, mentor health care workers on use and reporting
• Develop and revise M&E processes and related tools that support quality assurance for key program areas
• Provide capacity building and other form of support to site level staff on M&E activities such as data collection, analysis and interpretation
• Conduct targeted site visits to provide mentorship on all issues related to Strategic Information
• Support Data Demand for Information Use at the facility and program by mentoring and monitoring facility and sub-county data review meetings.
• Conduct data quality assurance activities in supported facilities triangulating data between program database and National HIV databases, NDW, KHIS, NASCOP VL-EID website
• In liaison with the MoH health management teams, conduct joint support supervisions data reviews and   DQAs
• Mentor facility teams on the development and monitoring of data quality improvement plans initiating Continuous Quality Improvement
• Develop SQL queries for data extraction and other related activities

Qualifications and professional skills

• A Bachelor’s degree in Science, Health Information Systems, Public Health, Health Informatics, Statistics, Mathematics or any other relevant degree. A Master’s degree will be an added advantage
• Training in M&E from a credible institution is desirable
• A minimum of three (3) years’ experience working with HIV Prevention, Key population and DREAMS data systems.
• Ability to understand PEPFAR MER 2.6 HIV Prevention indicators
• Strong analytical skills with competences in use of any two of the following Softwares: R, Stata, SPSS, Epi Info, Tableau and Power BI.
• Advanced computer skills including advanced excel, MS access, PowerPoint etc.