Senior Information Technology/Data Manager at KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation

Challenge TB

• KNCV is the lead partner in Challenge TB (CTB), the new USAID-funded 5-year global program to decrease TB mortality and morbidity in high burdened countries.
• We lead an international consortium with eight partner organizations: American Thoracic Society (ATS), FHI 360, Interactive Research & Development (IRD), Japan Anti Tuberculosis Foundation (JATA), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), PATH.
• The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
• The overarching strategic objectives of Challenge TB are to improve access to quality patient centered care for TB, TB/HIV, and MDR-TB services; to prevent transmission and disease progression; and to strengthen TB platforms.
• Study Description: In the past 10 years, inventory studies have been implemented in the Netherlands, the UK, French Guiana, Egypt, Yemen, and Iraq.
• Inventory studies can help to plan and implement strategies to better engage the private sector in TB care.
• Lagos has a dynamic private health sector which plays an important role in TB diagnosis and treatment.
• The sector has not been sufficiently enticed to contribute consistently to the notification of TB cases as required by law.
• A study is planned to identify the magnitude of under-reporting in both the public and private sectors, and to identify effective strategies to catalyze timely notification.

Responsibilities

• To verify the accuracy public and private sampling frames.
• To develop and implement an acceptable strategy for digitizing paper-based records.
• To perform probabilistic and deterministic matching to compare official surveillance data with facility-based data.
• To quantify the extent of over and under reporting through assessment of the quality and quantity of notification at the facility, LGA, and sector level.
• To develop an electronic recording and reporting system (e.g. SMS or web-based) for private providers.

Activities:

• To coordinate the digitizing of data at facility level with stakeholder approval and without disrupting services.
• To develop data collection tools for the study
• To work with TB program staff to simplify the process of reporting cases and outcomes for private and public providers.
• To provide training in use of TB recording and reporting systems
• To produce GIS maps of facilities to assist program staff to reach and engage private and public providers.
• To develop data management SOPs for the study.

Technical Qualifications

• MS in Statistics, Information technology, Informatics, Computer Science or Mathematics.
• Familiarity with capture-recapture methods
• Demonstrated experience in probabilistic (fuzzy) and deterministic matching methods for database de-duplification, merging, and appending
• Basic understanding of statistics, survey methodology, stratification, sampling, weighting, randomization, etc.
• Solid understanding of TB surveillance, including quarterly recording and reporting
• Demonstrated competence in relational database management in software like MS Access, SQL, Epi Data, Link Plus, Red Cap, FoxPro or any other applicable software program
• Demonstrated competence in use of statistical software like STATA, R+,etc.
• Expertise in the management of missing data particularly via multiple imputation.
• Knowledge of GIS and mapping programs.
• Demonstrated Proficiency in written and spoken English and one other Nigerian language.

Behavioral Competencies

• Ability to work closely with a wide range of stakeholders in a respectful manner.
• Ability to plan realistically in order to adhere to timelines and hit deadlines.
• Willingness to spend 25% of the time in the field during data collection.
• Enjoys challenges