Technical Specialist / Strategic Health Information Specialist - SHOPS Plus at ABT Associates

Req Id: 58443

Opportunity

• Abt Associates seeks a Strategic Health Information Analyst to support USAID’s SHOPS Plus Nigeria TB Program’s Technical Director in the process of designing and executing evidence-based, strategic plans including the development of digital applications, dashboards, and programmatic processes informed by data to increase TB case detection in Nigeria’s Lagos and Kano states.
• SHOPS Plus is USAID’s flagship initiative in private sector health. The project seeks to harness the full potential of the private sector and catalyze public-private engagement to improve health outcomes in TB, family planning, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and other priority health areas. In Nigeria, SHOPS Plus focuses on tuberculosis and family planning.
• The Strategic Health Information Specialist will support the Program TB Technical Director in the implementation of the TB program.  The TB program focus is on increasing the availability of quality TB services in the private sector, improving flow of suspected TB patients into detection and treatment centers, improving the quality of private sector TB services, and strengthening health systems to foster and sustain public private mix models for TB care.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide the TB Technical Director with evidence-based strategic support
• Lead the development of dashboards for Key Performance Indicators (KPI),data visualization and analytic platforms to drive and inform program activities and streamline actions required by private providers and program officers for the efficient and optimized functioning of the TB networks of private providers (including clinical practioners, community pharmacists, private laboratories and proprietary patent medicine vendors)
• Provide support to the program team in the development of context specific digital health solutions, electronic medical records (EMR) and mHealth applications that will advance service delivery, capacity buiding, client education, targeted community mapping and case finding, knowledge management and learning, data collection, analysis, and strategic usage
• Ensure data collection approach (timing/level of effort/user interface etc) is tailored to the providers’ needs for reporting data
• Ensure the program’s information technology is strategically and cost effectively applied to the programs needs for data reporting to the National and  State TB programs and USAID
• Advance research, learning, monitoring, and evaluation,cost analysis activities in the two states to ensure the program is collecting and using data to inform programmatic decisions to ensure cost-effectiveness and high functioning of the networks
• Work with the M&E Director, Finance Director and the Technical Director in providing data-informed, evidence-based input/feedback to facilitate program design, review and implementation . Develop data visuals for internal and external audiences
• Support program leadership in developing tools and best practices for data integrity
• Make presentations on strategic collection and use of data as may be necessary (e.g. during trainings, meetings, etc.)
• Leaddocumentation scientific writing, development of abstracts for conferences/meetings and generation of statistical analysis  Support the development of articles for publication
• Contribute materials for production of infographics, facts sheets,IECs, publications for program roll out

Minimum Qualifications

• (8+) years of experience and a master degree OR the equivalent combination of education and experience

Preferred Skills / Prerequisites:

• B.Sc or Master's degree in Health Informatics, Data Science, Statistics, Monitoring & Evaluation, or Social Sciences with a focus in technology and data analytics or other relevant study
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a related professional space
• Health related background and/or in country experience working in the health sector especially the private sector highly desirable
• Broad experience in Business Intelligence and analytical platforms like Tableau, Qlikview, Power BI, etc User Interface and User Experience design is desirable
• Experience in quantitative/statistical research techniques using statistical packages like Advanced Excel, STATA, SPSS, R
• Experience with methods and procedures for data acquisition, management and quality control
• Excellent communication, presentation and writing skills (examples will be requested)
• Ability to work in a highly dynamic team
• Ability to work under pressure and with tight timelines
• Understanding of the socio-cultural issues in the work environment