District Data Officer at MDH Kagera. Management and Development for Health (MDH) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization whose primary aim is to contribute to address public health priorities of the people of Tanzania and the world at large. These priorities include: communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Reproductive, Maternal, New-born and Child health (RMNCH); Nutrition; Non-Communicable Diseases of public health significance; as well as Health System Strengthening. MDH strongly believes in and works in partnership with various local and global institutions, Ministry of Health (MoH); President’s Office Regional Authorities and Local Government (PORALG); donor agencies; academic and non-academic institutions; implementing partners; civil society, community-based and faith-based organizations and others. MDH seeks to recruit qualified individuals to fill the following vacancies.
Position: VMMC District Data Officer (4 Posts)
Reporting to: VMMC Project Manager
Location: Kagera
Job Summary:
The VMMC District Data Officer is responsible for the collection, management, analysis and reporting of data associated with Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision programs. She/he will be playing a role of monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness and impact of VMMC services and ensuring compliance with data collection and reporting standards.
Duties and Responsibilities.
- Develop, implement, and oversee VMMC/EIMC monitoring and evaluation activities
- Support Health Care Providers and Community Workers to utilize Unified Community System (UCS) – VMMC Module for timely data collection and reporting
- Developing data input controls, range and logic checks, and other data management processes based on input from other team members.
- Build capacity to Health Care Providers in recording and reporting VMMC programmatic data
- Collaborate with technical team to develop, design Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) on data management Processes.
- Collaborate with Ministry of Health (MoH), RHMT and CHMT on emphasizing the availability and use of National VMMC/EIMC monitoring system at the facility/site level and council level.
- Training data team and Health Care Workers in the use of data entry and cleaning programs.
- Ensure the quality of data; completeness, timeliness, accurate, and reliability of data updated in the DHIS2 database on monthly basis.
- Perform active data cleaning, and prepare analysis datasets; analyze and tabulate data; and create graphic representations of statistical information
- Monitor district progress on daily, weekly basis and work with VMMC Project Manager to report on weekly and monthly district performance.
- Facilitate routine reporting of VMMC/EIMC report on monthly/quarterly basis for program performance monitoring
- Coordinate efforts to verify and assure fidelity, adherence to SOPs as well as quality of services and data on mental health through supervision, data quality assessment, chart/ register review, spot check, other approaches
- Mentor facility staff on data analysis and reporting to ensure data driven decision making
- Promote a culture of high performance, commitment, frequent monitoring, and accountability among self and among regional team for outcomes and ensure coordination with other teams in MDH regional offices
- Any other duty as assigned by immediate supervisor.
Requirements: Education, Work experience and Skills
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Statistics, demographic, public health or another related field.
- Minimum of Two (2) years of data management and or programming.
- Excellent in analysis and presentation skills.
- Good in both oral and written English and Kiswahili.
- Able to work independently and in team.
- Able to generate reports from various data bases.
- Experience in working in working in donor funded programs and clinical research trials will be an added.
Interested candidates for the above position should visit MDH Recruitment Portal https://recruitment.mdh.or.tz/ and submit your application before 27th November 2023.