SI OFFICER

Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University. For 50 years and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego Corporation has been providing technical support to the Ministries of Health in partner countries across the globe in a variety of technical areas including cervical cancer treatment and prevention, community health, HIV and AIDS, maternal and newborn health, health workforce capacity development family planning, malaria, and IPC/WASH. 

The RISE project is a five-year global USAID-funded project, with a period of performance from Apr. 15, 2019 – Dec. 30, 2027.  RISE supports countries to respond to the HIV epidemic and COVID-19 pandemic by providing technical assistance, service delivery, research, and cross-cutting health system innovations. RISE partners with ministries of health, local stakeholders, and nongovernmental organizations in more than 25 countries around the world to advance strategic and policy objectives to control the transmission of HIV and COVID-19. Working across the HIV prevention, care, and treatment cascade, RISE bridges country-led efforts to reach the UNAIDS 95-95-95 goals by 2030. To address the COVID-19 pandemic, RISE provides short-term, emergency response aid, alongside longer-term health systems strengthening, to achieve pandemic preparedness. Targeted technical assistance includes strengthening health information systems, human resources for health, supply chain, and health financing. 

The RISE project is looking to hire a SI Officer. The SI Officer, seconded to the MOH SID Office. Coordinates national MIS activities, data management activities and CMIS downtime support to supported regions where needed. Maintains data pipeline for MOH-SID approved patient level datasets (without PII) from MOH to internal data repositories to facilitate high frequency reporting and decision making. Reports to the M&E manager (MOH-SID M&E Unit).

The SI Officer is seconded to the MOH-SID unit to support advancement of Management Information Systems and data management activities for RISE supported regions. Officer has a reports to the MOH-M&E Unit Manager and has a dotted line reporting to the RISE project SI Director.

Downtime Management:

• Develop and implement a framework to monitor, respond to, and prevent system outages of information systems.
• Assist MoH in tracking the use of emergency CMIS downtime equipment.

Data Management & Integrity:

• Oversee the functionality of the MOH-SID Health Information Exchange (HIE) and M&E servers.
• Design and maintain data staging scripts (ETL) to ensure seamless and high-quality data flow from source to analytics platforms.
• Ensure stakeholder data sharing adheres to data governance SOPs and establish RISE approved data pipelines for requested and HMIS approved datasets with no PII.
• Ensure authorized RISE teams can access dashboards via approved and secure connections. 

Performance Dashboards:

• Continuously develop and update performance monitoring dashboards using platforms like DHIS2 and Power BI, turning raw data into actionable insights for decision-makers.
• Coordinate national datasets staging scripts development and updates at national level to ensure one truth.
• Automate CMIS data quality profiling using tools like Talend or PowerBI to conduct data checks and coordinate continuous data cleaning.
• Continuously develop and update dashboards. 

Critical Reflection:

• Facilitate homogenous system data outputs for all critical reflection meetings, to drive discussions, identify lessons learned, and inform program adjustments.

Technical Support:

• Provide expert technical support and training to staff on system use, data quality, and dashboard interpretation.
• Participate in MoH led CMIS sprint roll-out and support RISE regional staff in post training mentoring and use.
• Build capacity of MOH team in MIS through coaching and other techniques.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering, Health Informatics, or related field.
• At least 4 years’ experience in Health Information Exchange, database development, data ware housing and visualizations a requirement.
• Experience with SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SSIS, SSAS, DHIS2 and Power-BI.
• Experience with data warehousing, ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) processes, and data modeling techniques.
• Experience in Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E), including Understanding of data collection, analysis, security and visualization
• Experience in Strategic information management
• Experience in Health information systems, especially in HIV/AIDS, TB and PMTCT
• Comfortable working independently and developing new procedures and systems.
• Experience in training M&E teams
• Working experience in the health system in Eswatini is preferable.
• Good interpersonal skills.

Deadline for applications is 1st of August. Applications may close earlier as we are reviewing applications on a rolling basis.

Please apply at www.jobs-jhpiego.icims.com

Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, and references.

For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

“Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans.

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