4 Fresher DREAMS Data Officer USAID Project Job Opportunities – John Snow, Inc (JSI)
Job Title: DREAMS Data Officer (4 Job Opportunities)
Organization: John Snow, Inc (JSI)
Funding Source: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Duty Station: Uganda
Reports to: M & E Officer
About US:
John Snow, Inc. (JSI) is a leader in improving the health of individuals and communities by providing high-quality technical and managerial assistance to public health programs worldwide. JSI has implemented projects in 100 countries, and currently operates from eight U.S. and 81 international offices for the past 30 years. The JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. ID a leading public health research and consulting organization.
About USAID RHITES-N Project:
RHITES-N, Lango will contribute to improving key population- based national health indicators; build the capacity of the Ugandan government to carry out a sustainable and locally- driven response to the HIV epidemic, while also improving TB, malaria, nutrition, MNCH+A, and WASH outcomes. JSI will work with Ugandan stakeholders to design and implement health system strengthening strategies to scale up high-impact, evidence-based interventions at the national, sub-regional, district, and community levels. Interventions will include VMMC, virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, antiretroviral therapy, and condom education and distribution. JSI will focus where the greatest impact can be realized, with a priority on hard-to-reach and high-HIV-prevalence locations. RHITES-N, Lango is a five-year contract. The JSI team includes Amref Health Africa, Doctors with Africa CUAMM, Another Option, and Medical Concierge Group.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure all DREAMS spaces at both the facility and community level have all the standard and current tools for data capture and reporting;
- Avail standard operating procedures (SOPs) for enrollment and provision of unique identifiers for AGYW;
- Support peer group leaders to ensure tracking of layering services at both facility and community levels;
- Ensure the peer group leaders have access to the functional tablets and UDTS and are able to enter data of services provided on site (Facility/Community);
- Plan for weekly meetings with peer group leaders at the facility and community level for each sub county to ensure data from their tablets are complete, synchronized and updated in the UDTS;
- Ensure no accumulation of backlogs by mentoring peer group leaders on how to use the UDTS offline data entry features in case of no internet;
- Work to reconcile inconsistencies in monthly data reports sent from project-supported activities;
- Prepare suitable external and internal reports including weekly DREAMS dashboards to be shared with USAID, program management and staff to facilitate project monitoring and activity planning;
- Plan and conduct data quality assessments (DQAs) and · other evaluations as necessary.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the USAID RHITES-N Project DREAMS Data Officer job placement should hold a Bachelor’s degree and additional training, certificate or qualification in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) or relevant field;
- At least two years’ experience in M&E for international donor funded projects, preferably including experience with USAID-funded DREAMS projects;
- Knowledge and experience with DREAMS AGYW UDTS including data entry and cleaning, data analysis and reporting;
- PEPFAR reporting experience desired;
- Demonstrated ability to manage time and meet strict deadlines;
- Computer proficiency, including use of MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access and a statistics package (e.g., Stata, SPSS);
- Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, and mentoring skills;
- Excellent writing, oral and organizational skills
How to Apply:
All candidates should send their updated cover letters and updated CVs to ug-rhites-n@ug.jsi.com
Deadline: 21st January 2019
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