The Academic Model
Providing Access to Health Care (AMPATH-Plus) is a program under the auspices
of Moi University School of Medicine and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital
(MTRH) whose aim is to provide sustainable efforts in access to health care.
In addition to the MTRH site, AMPATH also supports the Ministry of Health in
eleven (11) districts in Rift Valley, one (1) district in Nyanza and eight (8)
in Western Province.Applications are invited for the following vacant position in the AMPATH Plus program.
Post: Senior Programmer – (1 Post)
Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, AMPATH Plus the successful candidate will among others, be responsible for the following:-
Responsibilities
- Understand,
contribute to and advise other AMPATH developers in software development,
primarily Java web applications and OpenMRS (core and modules).
- Design, maintain
and deploy enterprise software to meet user and business needs.
- Gather and
document user requests for future upgrades and enhancements to OpenMRS
(core and modules), as well as other custom enterprise software.
- Conduct and/or
inform IT on system-wide tests as well as provide user technical support.
- Manage developer
workloads in JIRA ticketing system. Curate vague JIRA tickets or epics
into finite tasks.
- Conduct daily
scrum, handle blockers, assemble and lead coding sprints.
- Monitor system
performance to ensure that AMPATH production systems are operating
optimally.
- Work with forms
and concepts team, data quality, reporting, IT and other developers to
coordinate the development process and meet project deadlines.
Qualification
and Experience
- At least a
bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, mathematics,
management information systems, business administration or a related
discipline.
- Experience
coding in Java, recommended 5+ years.
- Work experience
in software development and working in a team environment, recommended 3+
years.
- Experience
leading a small team, recommended 2+ years.
- Recommended:
experience working in health or medical software in resource-constrained
environments,
- Recommended:
mobile experience.
- Bonus:
contributor to OpenMRS.
- The preferred
applicant will complete one or more OpenMRS development tickets before
interviewing at AMPATH. Visit this OpenMRS web page to get started and
find a ticket to work on: http://bit.ly/omrsdv
Terms
of Employment
The successful candidate will be employed on a 1-year renewable contract terms with a competitive salary and allowances.
Application Submission
Candidates who meet these requirements and are interested should email their applications together with detailed Curriculum Vitae giving details of current remuneration to
The Chief of Party AMPATH Plus/AG. C.E.O AMPATH
P.O. Box 4606-30100
Eldoret
So as to reach him not later than 10th June, 2013
NB. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
