Assistant Technical Officer - Health Informatics at Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi)

Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) is an indigenous non-governmental organization that promotes socio-economic development by supporting a broad range of global health interventions, education and economic initiatives in Nigeria. AHNi is an allied organization to Family Health International (FHI360) with co-existing and mutually supportive interest in advancing the collective goals of the people and communities served. AHNi currently has its headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria.

To strengthen our operations and interventions in the country, we are recruiting qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Assistant Technical Officer - Health Informatics

Location: Adamawa
Department: ACEBAY
Job Category: Fixed Term

Job Description

• The Assistant Technical Officer – HI will be engaged to ensure the optimization and full functionality of all supported databases (LAMIS inclusive) across all ACE supported facilities while also coordinating all Health Informatics related activities in the State.
• S/He will provide technical assistance for the design and content development for electronic information systems (LAMIS, DHIS, GIS and any other AHNi package) 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.
• Assist 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 Standard

• Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science or other relevant field with 2-4 years’ experience in software development, DHIS 2 configuration. Deployment skills will be an added advantage
• MB.BS / MPH / MSc or similar Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, General Statistics or Biostatistics, Health Informatics and/or Management or M&E with 1 to 2 years relevant experience in project-level or state/national-level monitoring and evaluation system implementation.
• Familiarity with Nigerian public sector health systems and NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable.

Application Closing Date
Friday; 25th November, 2022.