Technical Specialist / Strategic Health Information Officer - SHOPS Plus Nigeria at Abt Associates

Abt Associates - The International Development Division focuses on improving the lives and economic well-being of people in lower and middle-income countries. We command technical expertise in health, agriculture, climate change, food security and governance - as well as in international evaluation. Our multi-layered health portfolio includes policy, health promotion and disease prevention, health finance, and health systems management. In partnership with government clients and local experts, our high-quality programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East are known for impact and innovation.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Technical Specialist / Strategic Health Information Officer - SHOPS Plus Nigeria

Req Id: 58442
Location: Nigeria

Job Summary

• Abt Associates seeks a Strategic Health Information Analyst to support USAID’s SHOPS Plus Nigeria TB Program’s Technical Director in the process of designing and executing evidence-based, strategic plans including the development of digital applications, dashboards, and programmatic processes informed by data to increase TB case detection in Nigeria’s Lagos and Kano states.
• SHOPS Plus is USAID’s flagship initiative in private sector health. The project seeks to harness the full potential of the private sector and catalyze public-private engagement to improve health outcomes in TB, family planning, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and other priority health areas. In Nigeria, SHOPS Plus focuses on tuberculosis and family planning.
• The Strategic Health Information Officer will support the Program TB Technical Director in the implementation of the TB program.  The TB program focus is on increasing the availability of quality TB services in the private sector, improving flow of suspected TB patients into detection and treatment centers, improving the quality of private sector TB services, and strengthening health systems to foster and sustain public private mix models for TB care.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Support the Strategic Information Specialist with evidence-based strategy development
• Support the development of dashboards for Key Performance Indicators (KPI), data visualization and analystic platforms to drive and inform program activities and streamline actions required by private providers and program officers for the efficient and optimized functioning of the TB networks of private providers (including clinical practioners, community pharmacists, private laboratories and proprietary patent medicine vendors)
• Support the program team in overseeing the development of context specific digital health solutions, electronic medical records (EMR) and mHealth  applications that will advance service delivery, capacity buiding, client education, targeted community mapping and case finding, knowledge management and learning, data collection, analysis, and strategic usage.
• Ensure data collection approach (timing/level of effort/user interface etc) is tailored to the providers’ needs for reporting data
• Ensure the program’s information technology is strategically and cost effectively applied to the programs needs for data reporting to the National and  State TB programs and USAID
• Support research, learning, monitoring, and evaluation,cost analysis activities in the two states to ensure the program is collecting and using data to inform programmatic decisions to ensure cost-effectiveness and high functioning of the networks
• Support documentation and the generation of statistical analysis for scientific writing, and abstracts for conferences/meetings 
• Contribute materials for the production of infographics, facts sheets,IECs,publications for program operationalization.

Preferred Skills / Prerequisites

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer engineering,Health Informatics, Data Science, Statistics, Monitoring & Evaluation, Social Sciences with a focus in technology and data analytics or other relevant study
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a related professional space
• Broad experience in Business Intelligence and analytical platforms like Tableau, Qlikview, Power BI, etc User Interface and User Experience design is desirable
• Experience in quantitative/statistical research techniques using statistical packages like Advanced Excel, STATA, SPSS, R
• Excellent communication, presentation and writing skills (examples will be requested)
• Ability to work in a highly dynamic team
• Ability to work under pressure and with tight timelines
• Understanding of the socio-cultural issues in the work environment

Minimum Qualifications:

• (6+) years of experience and a master degree OR the equivalent combination of education and experience

Remuneration
Abt Associates provides market-competitive salaries and comprehensive employee benefits. Local candidates strongly encouraged to apply.
 
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
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