Career Opportunities at Penda Health

Role Description

Your job will involve ensuring Penda have super accurate and reliable data that will assist staff to have a clear statistical picture of the business performance position. You will provide support to ensure that Penda data becomes so reliable & accurate that the market looks to us for insight. You will provide timely, accurate and concise updates to our data and dashboards and have a good insight into data analysis methodology. You are willing to go the extra mile to ensure our data is concurrent, accurate and relevant.

You will have great culture & team spirit capable of executing requests at short notice to deliver within timelines so that the Business Analysis department can perform its core functions efficiently. We are looking for individuals with great initiative, real drive and development qualities. This role will be based at our Support Office along Lusaka roads but with frequents travels across all our medical centers.

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Responsibilities

• Data Management: You will be tasked with ensuring data and dashboards are always updated accurately on time and expectations surpassed
• Data Analysis: You help data gathering, evaluations & surveys (e.g. drug price & service viability surveys) are conducted promptly hence ensure subsequent analysis on them are done in a timely insightful manner to assist management in decision making
• Solutions: You will be proactive in supporting BI formulation process by the Business Analyst and assisting in the thought process of developing kick-ass solutions that are simple, concise and comprehensive.
• Support: Provide constant support to the Business Analyst in developing timely SQL solutions making Penda smarter and more dynamic and support other Penda departments in ensuring they are able to meet their timelines in inputting data in a timely, accurate & concise manner
• Penda Culture & Experience: You have an awesome Penda spirit and will be able to derive data beneficial to the Business Analysis Team for solutions / BI strategy development through rapport with internal employees.

Requirements

• Previous solid experience working with data as a data analyst or similar role
• Bachelor’s Degree in BBIT, Business Administration (with concentration in IST), Mathematics or Computer Engineering or similar qualification.
• Have awesome Excel skills and looking to advance themselves to become a guru.
• Knowledge of SQL, SPSS and other analytical methodologies an advantage (or willingness to learn mad skills).
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Interactive analytical questioning mindset
• Ability to collaborate effectively and work as part of a team

Package

• Base salary depends on qualifications and experience
• Strong benefits package including full medical cover for inpatient and outpatient for your whole family

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Job Summary

Our IT specialist is going on paternity leave and we need someone to cover him while he is away. The job involves fielding calls from our medical centres to troubleshoot network, hardware, and software issues. You should feel very comfortable in a Help Desk role and provide excellent service to our staff members.

Put Your IT Skills To Good Use

• Help us revolutionize healthcare in Kenya!
• Work with a strong team of people from different backgrounds
• Overlap with an experienced IT specialist at Penda Health

Requirements

• Must have solid knowledge of networking: Effectively triage common network problems.
• Must have at least one year experience troubleshooting basic hardware, operating system, and software problems for users
• Must have knowledge/experience in maintaining hardware in excellent condition
• Fluent in English & Swahili with exceptional communication skills

Package

Pay is a guaranteed 3-month contract, with salary depending on experience and qualifications.

Hours

You will be on-call for all IT problems during our opening hours.

Where is the position?

Nairobi, Kenya. Our office is on Lusaka Rd (near Nyayo roundabout) in Simco Plaza, 4th floor. You will frequently travel to Umoja, Embakasi, Kahawa West, Zimmerman, and Githurai 45.

What’s the job?

• Most importantly: Make Penda a great place to work for all!
• Triage and troubleshoot common hardware and software problems.
  • Broken screens
  • Faulty peripherals
  • Update software
• Complete deadlines fast and have fun at work
• Be a great teammate and go above and beyond