The Georgetown University Center for Global Health Practice and Impact (CGHPI) serves countries to improve their population health and wellbeing and to safeguard against health-related threats by advancing the use of evidence and human-centered enterprise architecture on the path towards achieving equity and social justice. To achieve this mission, we catalyze the uptake, spread, and implementation of innovations; triangulate data from different sources, and tailor visualization of the information for each audience; design and implement integrated service delivery models; support communities of practice to inform policy and practice through efficient data use and horizontal and vertical collaboration; disseminate best practices and evidence globally through open source learning networks; build global, collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and interprofessional networks; undertake research that is informed by local needs; and invest in local leadership to own, provide oversight, and sustain implemented interventions.
CGHPI is operating in Nigeria as Georgetown Global Health Nigeria (GGHN) and seeking to recruit candidates for the position below:
Job Title: Public Health Officer, Health Informatics, Data Analytics and Use
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Reports to: Public Health Advisor, Health Informatics, Data Analytics and Use
Job Overview
- The Public Health officer will be part of the team that provides programming support for new and existing information systems based on user specifications with guidance from other staff members.
- Consults with and provides users with assistance in determining program enhancements and required maintenance.
Specific Duties
Roles
- Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas;
- Following the software development lifecycle.
- Develop features across multiple subsystems within our applications, including collaboration in requirements definition, prototyping, design, coding, testing and deployment
- Understand how our applications operate, are structured, and how customers use them
- Provide engineering support when building, deploying, configuring and supporting systems for e-solutions
- Developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
- Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
- Improves operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.
- Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
- Maintains database performance by calculating optimum values for database parameters; implementing new releases; completing maintenance requirements; evaluating computer operating systems and hardware products.
- Technology Management
- Investigate, analyze and make recommendations to management regarding technology improvements, upgrades and modifications
- Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
- Maintains database performance by calculating optimum values for database parameters; implementing new releases; completing maintenance
Requirements and Qualifications
- Candidates must have broad IT domain experience in at least one of the following areas IT areas: Applications Development, Enterprise Architecture, Project Management, Vendor Management, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, and Maintenance and Support
Additional Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar technical discipline; or, equivalent demonstrable experience.
- 2 years working experience; demonstrated success developing a variety of software systems while taking on increasing responsibility for analysis, design, implementation and deployment tasks
Application Closing Date
20th February, 2020.
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