Position: Field Officer – Health Information System (HIS) Department: M&E
Responsible to: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Staff directly supervised: Casual data clerks (from time to time)
Relationships internally: All programme and support staff
Relationships externally: MoMS/MoPHS personnel, other governmental and non governmental counterparts, community members
Overall Objective of the Position
The Field Officer – HIS is based in Kisii and will have responsibility for collection, collation, compilation, analysis, maintaining and dissemination of data on malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB and other project related areas.
S/he will assist the Project Officer- M&E in establishing and strengthening a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system to measure programme progress and impact and establish effective lesson learning and beneficiary accountability mechanisms in the project area.
Specific Responsibilities:
• Ensure data collection and entry of relevant data related to Merlin projects in a timely manner, and feedback is given to the source of the data such as DHMTs health facilities and communities in collaboration with other departments
• Analysis of collected data, make necessary visual presentation and give feedback to each service delivery point
• Ensure the database in Merlin M&E department and MoH are functional and in use
• Assist MoH staff in collecting, collating and disseminating HIV/AIDS and TB and other relevant data on time.
• Assist conduction of survey, evaluation and research activities
• Ensure MoH data tools (registers, forms etc) are correctly utilized, kept and updated within Merlin project areas including health facilities and communities
• Assist the Project Officer-M&E with the preparation and presentation of data for internal and donor reports in a timely manner
• Ensure availability of relevant data collection tools within the Merlin supported health facilities sites.
• Foster ownership of data collection tools and related data by health facilities.
• Regularly collect and at all times maintain in a user-friendly form all projects data in a Merlin database.
• Assist PO-M&E in identifying training needs on data for records officers and other MOH personnel on data collection, entry, analysis and report writing.
• Ensure data is segregated by gender and flag any gender disparities so as to enhance gender sensitive programming.
Job and Person Specification
• Diploma in medical records or any other related course
• At least three years working in the similar positions
• Analytical and research skills
• Competence in computer skills (Word processing and spreadsheet
• Experience in data collection, entry, management and reporting
Highly Desirable
• Previous experience working for an NGO
Applications should be sent to the address below on or before 11/05/2011
Merlin Kenya / Somalia Programme.
P.O. Box 3350 – 00200,
Nairobi
Or via e- mail to: recruitment@merlin-eastafrica.org