Technical Officer - Health Informatics at Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi)

Location: Nigeria
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Project: Global Fund

Project Summary

• The Global Fund is a 21st-century partnership organization designed to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics Founded in 2002, the Global Fund is a partnership between governments, civil society the private sector and people affected by the diseases.
• The Global Fund raises and invests newly US$4 billion a year to support programs run by local experts in countries and communities most is need. Since 2003, the Global Fund has invested more than 1.4 billion dollars in the fight against AIDs, TB and Malaria in Nigeria.

Details

• Technical Officer-Health Informatics under the supervision of the Senior Technical Officer Heath Informatics will be responsible for the development and implementation and supervision of all AHNi Electronic Information Systems at the country office, zonal and facility levels, will also provide technical assistance for the design and content development for electronic information systems (LAMIS, DHIS, GIS and other AHNi package or database tools) used for M&E operations;
• Assisting the software programming team in developing actual logic statements for the coding of M&E indicators and software business rules where necessary and checking that all software development is done according to already established standards and procedure

Minimum Recruitment Standards

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science or other relevant field with 2-5 years experience in software development, DHIS 2 configuration. Deployment skills will be an added advantage
• MB.BS/MPH/MSc or similar degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, General Statistics or Biostatistics, Health informatics and/or Management or M&E with 1 to 2 years relevant experience in project-level or state/national-level monitoring and evaluation system implementation.
• Experience working at the national level on health programs with knowledge and experience with data collection and analysis,
• Familiarity with Nigerian public sector heath systems and NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable