Organisation: Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
Project: STRIDES
Funding Source: USAID
Deadline: 22nd Nov 2013
Location: Kampala, Uganda
About MSH:
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is an international non-profit, public health organisation with headquarters in USA, whose purpose is to strengthen health programs worldwide. MSH Uganda is currently running a number of USAID and other donor funded projects, both in Kampala and other parts of the country including STRIDES for Family Health project.
STRIDES is a Reproductive Health/Family Planning and Child Survival Services Project whose goal is to train and support health service providers across 15 selected districts in Uganda to be fully functional and deliver quality, integrated RH/FP and CS services to more people. The STRIDES Project is recruiting staff for its one year extension period ending February 2015.
Job Summary: The Senior Data Specialist will contribute to implementation of the STRIDES M&E system. S/he will support data management, improvement of the HMIS including enhancing the capacity for data collection, analysis, dissemination, and data use at project, district and facility levels. The Senior Data Specialist will also conduct data verification exercises and support the utilization of LQAS data. He/she will also manage the STRIDES MIS and ensure that the database supports STRIDES to track PMP indicators to facilitate reporting on progress, impact and accountability. S/he will also participate in technical meetings and conferences as appropriate.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Data management:
Ensure effective data cleaning, data entry and data analysis using appropriate statistical techniques and tools.
Provide timely and accurate monthly, quarterly and annual performance data in relation to the STRIDES PMP indicators in order to track performance against the indicators and facilitate management decisions and reporting.
Support monitoring of STRIDES initiative programs such as water for health, shoes for health and net distributions.
Maintain the STRIDES MIS including establishing, maintaining and updating databases and records for STRIDES CSR initiatives.
Ensure that STRIDES PMP and performance data is entered in the USAID Performance Reporting System (PRS) and FTFMIS database as required.
Ensure storage and utilization of data from the annual survey and LQAS surveys.
Provide technical support to implementation of LQAS surveys and operation research studies with a focus on data collection and analysis.
2. Strengthening the HMIS
Support the district Bio-statisticians in the 15 STRIDES collaborating districts in monitoring the quality of data that is being entered into DHIS2 and provide remedial actions to improve data quality and HMIS reporting.
Provide capacity support for data collection, data processing and analysis for HMIS focal persons and records officers in close collaboration with the District Bio-statisticians.
Support and coordinate on the job HMIS coaching and mentoring at facility level in liaison with the district HMIS focal persons and Ministry of Health/Resource Centre.
Ensure HMIS data utilization by participating in data review and feedback meetings at regional and district levels.
In collaboration with the districts, conduct data quality assessments to determine and improve on the level of accuracy and reliability of HMIS data.
Any other assignment that is consistent with the job position.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- A minimum of a degree in demography, statistics, quantitative economics or related field or equivalent experience in data management
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in relational data base design, operations and maintenance
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in the analysis and presentation of health problem and service data and indicators
- High-level skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point and knowledge of statistical analysis packages such as SPSS and STATA
- Knowledge, skills and experience in key M&E standard tools such as PMPs, and results frameworks
- Knowledge, skills and experience in USAID’s standard tools and requirements will be an added advantage
- Training skills, including facilitation, mentoring and coaching
- Excellent team player and ability to communicate clearly and concisely both oral and in writing in the English language.
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