Strategic Information Officer

Strategic Information Officer Ref No. SI/DU/25/04/21

Reports to Data Manager. The incumbent is responsible for development of data collection tools, aggregating and management of data for various programmatic performance monitoring and research studies. He/she will also be responsible for coordination with partner organizations to support data management projects.

Main duties

• Designs and develops of data collection tools for the programmatic and research projects.
• Designs and creates routine performance monitoring tools and reports.
• Ensures that weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for supported projects are submitted on time.
• Extracts routine and ad hoc datasets for programmatic and research studies.
• Develops SOPs for handling research and programme data.
• Participates in data collection and QA/QI activities.
• Takes part in departmental planning activities.
• Mentors Data Coordinators, Data Associates, and Research Assistants in efficient ways to manipulate and use data.
• Mentors Data Coordinators, Data Associates, and Research Assistants on the definition of all performance monitoring indicators.
• Participates in the presentation of data to various internal and external stakeholders.
• Works with staff from other organizations to conduct requirements gathering and provide technical support for health information systems supported by CIDRZ.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computing/ICT, Mathematics, Engineering or related subject
• 3 years minimum relevant work experience
• Experience in an M&E team working on PEPFAR MER indicators will be an added advantage
• Database querying and management in any RDBMS, e.g. SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres etc
• Medium to advanced skills in any data analysis tool e.g. R, STATA, Excel etc
• Medium to advanced software programming skills in an object oriented or functional programming language
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong communication skills

Suitably qualified candidates are invited to apply; however only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please send application letter and detailed CV quoting Reference Number  and day-time telephone number to;

CIDRZ Human Resources Director  email: jobs@cidrz.org Hard copy applications will not be accepted