Senior Strategic Information Officer Ref No. SI/TB/31/10/22
The Senior Strategic Information Officer will be part of the Strategic Information team at CIDRZ HQ. He/she will be responsible for overseeing all data/information related aspects that are in place and that data management best practices are followed for various programmatic performance monitoring and research studies.
Main duties
- Provide guidance in the design and development of data collection tools for TBLON and research projects
- Provide guidance in the design and creation of routine performance monitoring tools and reports
- Ensure that weekly and monthly reports are submitted on time
- Provide guidance in the extraction of routine and ad hoc datasets for programmatic and research studies
- Provide guidance in the development of SOPs for handling programmatic and research data
- Management of overall lifecycle of programmatic and research studies data
- Ensure that there are adequate staff to participate in data collection and QA/QI activities
- Take part in departmental planning activities
- Mentor Strategic Information Officers, Data Coordinators and Data
- Collectors where appropriate on definition of all performance monitoring indicators
- Presentation of data to various internal and external stakeholders
- Ensure to put in place programs to train staff on data collection and entry procedures and common errors/problems within the clinic and at other sites as requested
- Develop electronic data collection tools for TBLON and other research projects
Qualifications
- Degree in Computing/ICT, Mathematics, Engineering, or related subject
- Experience in an M&E team working on PEPFAR MER indicators will be an added advantage
- Background or experience in Software Engineering
- Database querying and management in any RDBMS, e.g., SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres etc
- Advanced skills in any data analysis tool e.g., R, STATA, Excel etc
- Advanced software programming skills in an object oriented or functional programming language
- Strong team leadership attributes
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to work in a very high-pressure environment
- Very good interpersonal skills
- Good team player
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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Closing Date : 25th November, 2022.