Position: Lead HIS Project Manager: Health Information System Development, Project Management and Coordinated
Reporting to: Health Information System (HIS) Principal Investigator (PI)
Location: Dar Es Salaam (frequent field travel)

The Lead HIS Project Manager (LHPM) will be a technocrat, negotiator and government relations focal point. LHPM will be primarily responsible for managing the technical road map development process (“DH2020”), from requirements sourcing to technical translation, ensuring both its technical rigor, comprehensiveness, alignment with user requirements and, perhaps most critical, acceptance by varied and non-linear government agencies. The task will be challenging and politically complex. With a secured road map in-hand, LHPM will be responsible to coordinate oversight of engineering processes with select government agencies, and establish a development operations method that is clear, durable and efficient, incorporating iterative production/testing stages and, ultimately, user acceptance testing to validate alignment of final product with perceived user requirements. LHPM will then manage engineering inputs to deliver DH2020 technical products, and will be responsible for agile/iterative rescoping as defined by the development operations method above. In all processes, GOT will feature as a primary decision-maker and final authority on acceptability and integration. LHPM must be skilled in negotiating the balance between technical and political requirements, quickly pivoting from one domain to the next as the environment requires.

General:
LHPM must be detail oriented, highly skilled with Agile engineering techniques and have an exemplary track record working with SQL products. LHPM will have a long, successful record of establishing and delivering road maps in politically and technically complex environments, with an emphasis on negotiation, communication and harmonization skills.
LHPM will have direct experience with health information systems in developing economies, with particular attention to scoping and delivering inter-operability solutions using commonly accepted standards and protocols.

LHPM will report directly to Health Information System (HIS) Principal Investigator (PI)

• Work with THPS and consortium to finalize work-plan and budget during kick-off proceedings
• Work with Project Manager to establish governance subcommittee within NDHSC for DH2020
• Within the subcommittee, establish acceptable methodology for road map formulation
• Work with Project Manager to advocate among supporting partners for road map methodology
• Establish comprehensive in-service specification of current HIS. Utilize current documents in process with GOT and implementing partners  incorporate infrastructure audit for implementation forecasting/planning
• Solicit user requirements, objectives and key results (OKR) for DH2020 road map, use multi-factor ranking system to select priority commits
• Derive technical road map for priority requirements, secure political concurrence and implementing partner support for map
• Establish a Product Management Committee, incorporating select GOT agencies and actors
• Solicit and secure engineering resources to produce technical specification
• Design and secure approval for development operations methodology, including processes, software and M&E framework
• Oversee development operations
• Design and secure approval for change management protocol (if not already incorporated in road map)
• Work with GOT agencies to design a comprehensive work-plan to deploy improved HIS environment, incorporating hardware installation
• Design and secure approval for end-user support strategy, including versioning/release management, end-user interaction, documentation and more
• Oversee technical and end-user documentation

• Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 10 years’ experience in a technical product manager role or similar
• 5 years’ experience with developing economy electronic medical record systems (OpenMRS, OpenSRP, CTC2, Smartcare), DHIS2, interoperability solutions (H7 FHIR, OpenHIE protocols) or comparable platforms.
• 5 years’ experience working in-country to support a Southern or Eastern African government in HIS.
• Demonstrable expertise in SQL products
• Excellent English communication (oral and written)
• Remarkable negotiation and political navigation stills
• Self-motivated, with acute attention to timely delivery of quality products