Merlin Field Officer Job in Kisii, Kenya

Position: Field Officer - Health Information System (HIS)

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 utilized, 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.

Job and Person Specification

·       Diploma in medical records or any other related course

·       At least three years working in the similar positions

·       Analytical and research skills

·       Competence in computer skills (Word processing and spreadsheet

·       Experience in data collection, entry, management and reporting

Highly Desirable

·       Previous experience working for an NGO

Applications should be sent to the address below on or before 11/05/2011

Merlin Kenya / Somalia Programme.
P.O. Box 3350 – 00200,
Nairobi

Or via e- mail to: recruitment@merlin-eastafrica.org

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