Strategic Information Specialist

Job Summary

Under the supervision of the Strategic Information Advisor, the SI Specialist will provide technical assistance and capacity building to M&E and data management staff at Point of Service in support of SI activities. S/he will provide support to the M&E and data management components at the Point of Service level

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide specialized training to facility and other partner staff in Health Information Systems including the Kenya EMR, Web ADT and other databases
• Provide mentorship and capacity enhancement to site data officers, HRIOs and M&E teams on HIV-related M&E systems
• Provide support and data analysis training to health facility staff with a focus on the use of HIS and mHealth solutions capitalizing on use of the Kenya EMR modules for optimal information support to facility healthcare workers
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting to both the program and donor
• Conduct routine data management including data collection, collation, analysis and presentation both to program and other stakeholders
• Ensure availability of national M&E HIV-related tools in supported facilities, mentor health care workers on use and reporting
• Develop and revise M&E processes and related tools that support quality assurance for key program areas
• Provide capacity building and other form of support to site level staff on M&E activities such as data collection, analysis and interpretation
• Conduct targeted site visits to provide mentorship on all issues related to Strategic Information
• Support Data Demand for Information Use at the facility and program by mentoring and monitoring facility and sub-county data review meetings.
• Conduct data quality assurance activities in supported facilities triangulating data between program database and National HIV databases, NDW, KHIS, NASCOP VL-EID website
• In liaison with the MoH health management teams, conduct joint support supervisions data reviews and   DQAs
• Mentor facility teams on the development and monitoring of data quality improvement plans initiating Continuous Quality Improvement
• Develop SQL queries for data extraction and other related activities

Qualifications and professional skills

• A Bachelor’s degree in Science, Health Information Systems, Public Health, Health Informatics, Statistics, Mathematics or any other relevant degree. A Master’s degree will be an added advantage
• Training in M&E from a credible institution is desirable
• A minimum of three (3) years’ experience working with HIV Prevention, Key population and DREAMS data systems.
• Ability to understand PEPFAR MER 2.6 HIV Prevention indicators
• Strong analytical skills with competences in use of any two of the following Softwares: R, Stata, SPSS, Epi Info, Tableau and Power BI.
• Advanced computer skills including advanced excel, MS access, PowerPoint etc.