Strategic Information and Tech Associate
Futures Group
About Us
Futures Group develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence-based solutions to improve the health and well being of people around the world.
About Us
Futures Group develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence-based solutions to improve the health and well being of people around the world.
Futures
Group has deep expertise in policy and advocacy, research and strategic
information, health markets and private sector engagement, modeling and
economic analysis, patient monitoring and management/HMIS, strategic
consulting, and program management.
Purpose
Futures Group International develops and enhances strategic information (SI) systems at health facilities to collect and track data to improve patient and project outcomes, including reports for the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) indicators, National Ministry of Health (MOH) indicators, and specific project indicators.
Purpose
Futures Group International develops and enhances strategic information (SI) systems at health facilities to collect and track data to improve patient and project outcomes, including reports for the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) indicators, National Ministry of Health (MOH) indicators, and specific project indicators.
This
information is essential to provide high quality care and treatment,
procurement activities, tracking progress, providing accurate reporting to both
the MOH and US Government and to be used by health facilities for adaptive
management.
Position Summary
The Strategic Information and Tech Associate will be responsible for automating collection and reporting of Health Information at health facilities and delivering technical support and supervision.
Position Summary
The Strategic Information and Tech Associate will be responsible for automating collection and reporting of Health Information at health facilities and delivering technical support and supervision.
She/he
will be responsible for ensuring that data reporting is comprehensive, clean
and valid, and ensuring the further deployment of IQCare Electronic Medical
Records System (EMR) and IQTools to all service delivery outlets in the
network.
Additionally,
the SI and Tech Associate will contribute in HMIS development, through testing,
recommending and implementing new system functionality and features. The
position is open to Kenyan nationals.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- IT
troubleshooting and bug reporting at health facilities that have technical
difficulties
- Assist the SI
team to remotely connect to the health facilities’ databases
- Build capacity
of local partners to manage, analyze and make use of their data
- Assist in the
capacity building efforts of the strategic information team.
- Continued
development of IQTools and IQCare via
- Programming of SQL queries for all
new clinical reports requested by the Clinical lead team and local
partners o Programming of IQTools reporting system to incorporate changes
in user requirements
Building and designing of data collection forms used in IQCare EMR system
Requirements gathering
Documentation of indicators and systems in use. - Assist the
strategic information team to deploy and manage the IQCare (EMR) rollout
and maintenance at health facilities
- Other
responsibilities as needed
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
Minimum Requirements
- B.Sc. Computer
science,
- 3 years of .NET
programming / Microsoft SQL Server database programming experience,
- Excellent
computer skills ( Windows ,SQL, Microsoft Office, networking)
Experience / Skills required
- Excellent
VB.NET,C#,ASP.NET programming, SQL 2005,2008 database programming
skills
- Experience
working with Patient Management and Monitoring Systems (PMMS) /HMIS
- Experience in
implementing US Government-funded projects.
- Have a good
understanding of the health systems in Kenya
- Demonstrated
ability to transfer knowledge through formal and informal training.
- Demonstrated
ability to work in a team as well as independently
- Excellent
written and oral communication skills.
- Experience
working with and designing/programming tools for health information data
entry and reporting
- Ability to
trouble-shoot, manage crisis, and problem solving
Physical Demands
- Regularly
required to stand or sit, and move about the facility
Work Environment
- Usual office
working conditions free of disagreeable elements.
Futures
Group provides equal employment to all participants and employees without
regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation,
veteran or marital status.
How to apply:
All applications for this position should be submitted online at www.futuresgroup.com via the Careers page.
Closing date: 17
Aug 2012
