ICAP Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and EMR System Testing and Debugging Analyst Jobs in Nairobi Kenya

ICAP of Columbia University is working in partnership with the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation and the Ministry of Medical Services to strengthen HIV Care and Treatment services at provincial and district health facilities. 

This program is part of a US Government initiative against HIV in Kenya that receives funding from PEPFAR through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Applications are invited for the following positions:

1. Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer - Continuous Quality Assurance (CQA)

Location: Nairobi with occasional in-country travel
 

Overall Function:
 

Under the supervision of the Director of Monitoring, Evaluation and Research the CQA Officer will be responsible for the on-going data analysis, audit of program data, and feedback of this data to program staff.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide continuous on-going audit of program data based on established PEPFAR targets.
• Provide continuous feedback on quarterly aggregate and patient-level data for quality of care improvement to the program implementation team.
• Perform data analysis to check the quality of data quality from routine quarterly reports.
• Prepare regular high quality presentations of summarized program data for program staff and funding agency
• Routine analysis of program data in preparation for data summaries for research abstracts and manuscripts.
• Assist with analysis of research data when required

Requirements:

• Kenyan national with an Advanced Statistics Degree (minimum Masters) in Statistics, Mathematics or Epidemiology.
• At least 5 years experience in medical statistical analysis, monitoring and evaluation systems in HIV programs
• Strong data management and data analysis skills essential
• Advanced skills in graphic presentation of data
• Strong supervisory and management skills

2. EMR System Testing and Debugging Analyst (6 Months Fixed Contract)
 

Location: Nairobi
 

Overall Function:
 

To work under the overall guidance and supervision of the Director of Monitoring and the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer – Data Management, to provide hands on leadership in the development of upgraded electronic medical records (EMR) system for ICAP.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage programmer consultant resources and supervise the daily attainment of outlined work plan targets.
• Technical responsibility for reviewing and interpreting of EMR system user requirements, and prepare detailed work plans for the EMR upgrade.
• Develop quality assurance processes and lead in the testing of developed codes on Open MRS framework to ensure designed EMR modules are stable and perform as specified.
• Technical responsibility to conduct weekly code reviews, and host progress presentations to EMR upgrade steering committee
• Maintain and update the EMR system source code documentation

Requirements:

• A minimum of a Diploma in Computer Science, Information Sciences or any other related and equivalent qualifications from recognized University/Institution
• Familiarity with MOH EMR standards and knowledge of Open MRS
• Deep technical understanding of data warehouse model and design methodologies by generating ETL, Data Marts, OLAP, OLTP, interactive dashboards, charts and tabular reports output formats
• Demonstrated technical experience integrating different data sources from/to different databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle Open MRS framework) while addressing issue of data quality; database performance, optimization, data aggregation using PostgreSQL/SQL query scripts
• A minimum of 5 years proven technical experience is required

All applications including a current CV, telephone number and 3 professional referees (preferably current/previous supervisors with their Telephone numbers and Email addresses) should be sent to the HR and Administration Manager, ICAP icap.vacancies@gmail.com on or before 19th July 2013.
 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
 

ICAP is an equal opportunity employer