Jhpiego is an international non-profit health organization affiliated with the John Hopkins University.  For 42 years now, Jhpiego Has empowered front-line health workers by designing and implementing effective, low cost, hands-on solutions to strengthen the delivery of healthcare services for women and their families.  by putting evidence-based health innovations into everyday practice, Jhpiego works to break down barriers to high-quality healthcare for the world's most vulnerable populations

Position: Senior Health Informatics Advisor

Position Overview:

The senior health informatics adviser will be a senior member of the MER department to lead development, implementation, maintenance and support of digital health systems, which Jhpiego Tanzania uses to support programs implementation and monitoring.

S/He Will provide leadership and quality assurance for systems performance; s/he will be responsible for overseeing the monitoring of data management system performance and addressing issues as they arise. S/he will be responsible for advising on options for the digital health system. S/he will manage vendor contracts, consultancies and or in-house capacity of staff of MER unit in use of data systems, and will provide technical oversight for staff in the health informatics subgroup. The senior health informatics advisor will work with clients, partners, program staff,  the ict4d unit, technical leadership office(TLO) and global programs office(GPO) to identify opportunities to improve health systems and meet other programmatic challenges through the appropriate application of ICT

Responsibilities

• Manage the selection and provision of the appropriate technology; collaborate in determining priorities and deliverables, monitoring service levels and evaluating against success measures, and making presentations to the management
• Collaborate closely with the government of Tanzania, specifically the national eHealth steering committee(NeHSC) and the national eHealth entity, to implement systems aligned to the national eHealth strategy the nation I strategy
• Lead implementation of data warehouse, keeping performance standards, business and information requirements up-to-date, and performance standards adhered to
• Assess performance of data management systems, provide routine reports on challenges, gaps, proposed solutions and lead planning and implementation of improvements
• Coach the team in the development of software application, provide continuity in all major health informatics solutions
• Anticipate digital health needs and work with IT need to ensure sufficient IT infrastructure in place to support digital health system functionality
• Provide quality assurance to ensure proper configuration of systems used for programme implementation and monitoring
• Responsible for providing guidance to ensure the security and quality of data at all levels of the system
• Lead documentation of MER and digital health systems
• Ensure that systems for data collection, management, output, and visualization align with MER plans and business requirements for managing Jhpiego programs
• Ensure oversight and management vendors, consultants and or interns to ensure deliverables are on time and at expected quality
• Supervise health informatics officer to ensure high-quality data inputs and outputs into the system and from the system
• Advice on the efficient and cost-effective sustainable solutions for data management systems and learning and planning systems
• Lead Jhpiego Tanzania in data visualization development in-house and or contracting
• Build capacity of the central staffing use of data systems
• Liaise with senior M&E officers to coordinate and streamline health information with M&E and research activities of the unit
• Provide input to an ewok planning to ensure overall functioning of digital health systems

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in an ICT4D or health informatics
• At least four years of management experience
• At least 8 years of work experience working with health programs including HMIS
• At least 4 years of experience with DHIS2
• A broad and extensive knowledge of IT principles, Methods, and techniques;  analytical skills and superior knowledge of project management principles to manage project and work with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience working with and analyzing complex data systems and providing innovative solutions
• Understanding of the national eHealth strategy and other related national policies
• Experience in national level work on health informatics( work with the MOHCDGEC)
• Experience with Commcare, Open Data Kit, GIS tools
• Direct experience leading technical teams is highly desired
• Knowledge of different database software
• Excellent time management, people, and partnership skills
• Excellent written and verbal skills in English and Kiswahili are required to communicate technical information to audience with varying levels of technical expertise as referenced above
• Availability and willingness to travel up to 30% time

Jhpiego offers a competitive package selected candidates in line with salary history, academic qualifications and relevant experience

To apply please indicate the position title on the envelope or subject line of your email. Application should also include an up-to-date cv with three contactable professional references, a cover letter and your salary history applications which do not include all of these elements will not be considered

The application should be directed to

Director of Human Resources

Jhpiego

Plot 72, block 45B, New Bagamoyo Road - Victoria

PO BOX 9170

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Or send the application through email at HRTZ@jhpiego.org

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The closing date for applications is two weeks from the first publication of this advert