Senior Technical Officer - Health Informatics at the Global Fund - Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi)

The Global Fund is a 21st-century partnership organization designed to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics, Founded in 2002, the Global Fund is a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and people affected by the diseases. The Global Fund raises and invests nearly US$4 billion a year to support programs run by local experts in countries and communities most in need. Since 2003, the Global Fund has invested more than 1.4 billion dollars in the fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria in Nigeria.

To strengthen this operations and interventions in the country, we are partnering with Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) to fill the capacity below:

Job Title: Senior Technical Officer - Health Informatics

Location: Abuja
Project: Global Fund

Job Description

• Senior Technical Officer - Health Informatics under the supervision of the Senior Technical Advisor/Team Lead M&E, will be responsible for the development and implementation and supervision of all AHNi’s Electronic Information Systems at the country office, zonal and facility levels, provide technical support for the design and content development for electronic information systems (LAMIS, DHIS, GIS and any other AHNI package or database tools) used for M&E operations.
• This function will Include assisting the software programming team in developing actual logic statements for the coding of M&E indicators and software business rules where necessary and checking that all software development is done according to already established standards and procedures.

Minimum Recruitment Standards

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science or other relevant field with 3-5 years’ experience in software development, DHIS 2 configuratIon. Deployment skills will bean added advantage.
• MBBS/MPH/MSc or similar degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, General Statistics or Biostatistics, Health Informatics and/or Management or M&E with 1 to 3 years relevant experience in project-level or state/national-level monitoring and evaluation system implementation.
• Experience working at the national level on health programs with knowledge and experience with data collection and analysis.
• Familiarity with Nigerian public sector health systems and NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable.

Application Closing Date
23rd December, 2019.