NGO Information System Officer Job in Kenya

Health Information System Officer (HISO)

Department: M&E

Responsible to: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Staff directly supervised: Casual data clerks (from time to time)

Relationships internally: All programme and support staff

Relationships externally: MoMS/MoPHS personnel, other governmental and non governmental counterparts, community members

Overall Objective of the Position

The Field Officer-HIS is based in Kisii and will have responsibility for collection, collation, compilation, analysis, maintaining and dissemination of data on malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB and other project related areas.

S/he will assist the Project Officer- M&E in establishing and strengthening a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system to measure programme progress and impact and establish effective lesson learning and beneficiary accountability mechanisms in the project area.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Ensure data collection and entry of relevant data related to Merlin projects in a timely manner, and feedback is given to the source of the data such as DHMTs health facilities and communities in collaboration with other departments
• Analysis of collected data, make necessary visual presentation and give feedback to each service delivery point
• Ensure the database in Merlin M&E department and MoH are functional and in use
• Assist MoH staff in collecting, collating and disseminating HIV/AIDS and TB and other relevant data on time.
• Assist conduction of survey, evaluation and research activities
• Ensure MoH data tools (registers, forms etc) are correctly utilised, kept and updated within Merlin project areas including health facilities and communities
• Assist the Project Officer-M&E with the preparation and presentation of data for internal and donor reports in a timely manner
• Ensure availability of relevant data collection tools within the Merlin supported health facilities sites.
• Foster ownership of data collection tools and related data by health facilities.
• Regularly collect and at all times maintain in a user-friendly form all projects data in a Merlin database.
• Assist PO-M&E in identifying training needs on data for records officers and other MOH personnel on data collection, entry, analysis and report writing.
• Ensure data is segregated by gender and flag any gender disparities so as to enhance gender sensitive programming.
• Perform any other duty assigned by the supervisor
• Job and Person Specifications
• Diploma in Medical Records, Higher Diploma/Degree in Health Information Systems (Medical statistics)
• Experience of over 2 years in health information systems support in an NGO
• Experience in handling data related to HIV/AIDS prevention programs
• Knowledge of Access, EPI info, SPSS or similar data analysis programmes
• Experience in Health informatics tools for collecting, managing, analyzing, processing and presenting health data
• Good understanding of HIV related MoH reporting tools and other relevant national tools
• Knowledge in Designing and developing health databases
• Knowledge in the use of Innovative applications of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in health
• Exposure to Health information security issues and solutions
• Knowledge of Legal and ethical issues in development and use of health information systems

How to Apply:

Should this role be of interest to you, please send your application, clearly indicating “HISO – CM” in the subject line, to recruitment@merlin-kenya.org by 5pm on Friday, 27th April 2012.

Alternatively, you may wish to post your application to:

HR Department, Merlin, Nairobi Office,
P.O Box 3350 – 00200,
Nairobi, Kenya.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.