Health ,Monitoring,Evaluation & Informatics Training Officer At Partners in Health

Position Title: Health Monitoring, Evaluation and Informatics(HMEI) Training Officer

Reports to: HMEI Lead

Department: M&E

Work Location: Maryland (Harper)

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Overview:

The Health Monitoring, Evaluation and Informatics training (HMEIT) Officer will be primarily responsible for daily implementation of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning activities for PIH Liberia programs with a focus on the medical education activities. The activities will include work planning, tracking progress of program activities, development of data collection instruments, routine data collection, extracting data from DHIS2/Power BI, Tuvuti, Comcare, etc., updating the results matrix, conducting data quality assessment, mentoring. The HMEIT officer is responsible for the professional capacity building of the Data assistants and Analyst.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build the capacity and provide continuous mentorship to health facility and district staff on use of HMIS tools, proper data management analysis and use of data to support decision making at health facility and district level.
• Conduct joint monitoring visits with the district staff and other stakeholders and ensure conformance of the program implementation inline to the program objectives, work plans, budget and expected results.
• Document best practices and lessons learned and share with program staff and to maximize impact of the program; foster a productive relationship and lesson-learned sharing culture among the program staff and stakeholders.
• Responsible for data accuracy. Conduct secondary data analysis of routine program data to identify evidence-based best practices for scale up for teaching programs.
• Provide necessary information required to compile quarterly, annual report, donor reports and other reports as and when required.
• Work with the health facility teams to document and track quality improvement projects.
• Participate in the preparation of work plans, target and indicators setting, M&E plans and performance frameworks for the teaching programs and educational activities.
• Participate in the development of survey protocols for baseline and end -line surveys, research and evaluations.
• Train and provide continuous mentorship of Community health workers on data collection, tracking and reporting on community interventions.
• Under the supervision of the HMEI managers and Lead, Identifying the gaps and Accompany the professional capacity building of the Data Assistants and Analysts of the HMEI team.

Basic

• Conduct outcome harvesting and implement targeted data collection/analysis to inform decision making around program implementation.
• Support the medical education team on Programs M&E, research, QI projects, grants writing and monitoring.
• Participate in preparing monthly, quarterly and annual program performance reports.
• Support program implementation team to document, disseminate lessons learnt, and best practices.

Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Epidemiology or Bachelor’s degree preferably in, Statistics, Demography or Social Sciences or any other relevant discipline.
• Any Degree in Biostatistics is a plus.
• Minimum 3years’ experience in implementing monitoring Evaluation and learning activities for clinical and Educational Programs
• Experience in using DHIS2 and digital data collection applications
• Excellent computer skills, knowledge of Microsoft Office (e.g. Word, PPT, Intermediate Level in Excel is a must);
• Good reporting, communication and representation skills

Organizational Profile:

Partners In Health (PIH) is an international health organization relentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. PIH partners with local governments to build local capacity and works closely with impoverished communities to deliver high-quality health care, address the root causes of illness, train providers, advance research, and advocate for global policy change. Our delivered services in the field are based in our partnership with the Governments and Ministries of Health and the support to education, training and mentorship to Health care workers and students is one of our pillars for the Health Care system strengthening.

PIH currently has implementation programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Sierra Leone and Navajo Nation. Through our partnership with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we support a wide range of programs in dozens of other countries around the world.

Partners In Health (PIH) is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee. It is the policy of PIH not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. PIH works in and with a number of governments in and outside the U.S., and to the extent applicable, this statement is intended to incorporate the prohibition of any unlawful discrimination covered by applicable laws in such countries, states and municipalities.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:

At Partners In Health, we are committed to ensuring that those who benefit from our work- including our patients, families and community members –as well as our staff are treated with dignity and respect and protected from sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Partner In Health’s PSEAH policy. Partners In Health will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Social Justice

We are a global health and social justice organization that responds to the moral imperative to provide high-quality health care globally to those who need it most. We strive to ease suffering by placing patients at the center of all care, bringing the benefits of modern medicine to all.