Data Manager at World Health Organization (WHO)

Ref Id: 1803536
Grade: NO-A
Contractual Arrangement: Individual service contractor
Contract duration: 4 months
Organization: AF_NGA Nigeria

Purpose of the Position
The objective of the post is to operate WHO data management and M&E activities at the field level and provide evidence driven information for actions aimed at supporting the state/ to:

• Ensure availability of quality, timely, and complete information that guides the health emergency information and Risk Assessment
• Monitor achievement of recommended performance indicators for EWARS and IDSR highlighted in the EWARS Guidelines and Nigeria's Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy.
• Provide evidences through the timely utilization of different data available and guide the program.

Description of Duties
The specific functions of the incumbent are:

• Establish, maintain and up-date databases pertaining to EWARS/ IDSR and HeRAMS
• Perform data harmonization, validation and cleaning on all data received
• Provide regular feedback on data quality, timeliness and completeness for action.
• Monitor alerts and produce daily alerts reports.
• Track and obtain missing or incomplete data/reports and provide feedback to relevant levels.
• Support the implementation of HeRAMS and work closely with M&E officers in the provision of monthly feedback on M&E6.
• Produce monthly and quarterly analysis feedback from data to enhance decision making at relevant levels
• Support data presentation, analysis and interpretation.
• Create and secure back-up copies of data
• Provide technical data management support to the LGAs.
• Conduct data management training to build the capacity of officers.
• Perform other activities as required by the supervisor.

Required Qualifications
Education:

• Essential: Completion of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Management and related field; preferably supplemented by a certificate in GIS.
• Desirable: Field Epidemiology Training Program or Master University Degree in epidemiology, statistics, database management or public health from an accredited/recognized institute.

Experience:

• Essential: At least 2 years experience in data management and ICT in an international organization, NGO, government agencies or any other reputable organization
• Desirable: Prior humanitarian working experience at field level with WHO, other UN agencies, health cluster partners, recognized humanitarian organizations or with an international non-governmental organization with expertise in disaster and outbreak response

Use of language skills:

• Essential: Excellent knowledge of English. Working knowledge of ethnic languages would be an asset.

Skills:

• Specific skills required: Ability to work with large datasets, Good knowledge of online data collection applications, statistical analysis packages (Stata, SPSS, etc).Working knowledge of GIS mapping software (or similar) would be an asset.