Since 2008, World Lung Foundation
(WLF) Maternal Health Program has contributed to the Government of Tanzania’s
efforts to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality by improving women’s access
to good-quality emergency obstetric and neonatal care (EmONC). EmONC is the
package of health services necessary to treat life-threatening complications
that cause the majority of maternal and neonatal deaths.
The WLF program currently works
in 37 public facilities in the regions of Kigoma, Morogoro and Pwani to bring
good-quality EmONC to rural, isolated populations. WLF has upgraded health
centers, strengthens district hospitals, and trains and mentors Assistant
Medical Officers to provide emergency obstetric and neonatal care including
cesarean sections, trains and mentors nurse-midwives/clinical officers to
provide anesthesia, skilled birth attendance and basic emergency obstetric
care.
WLF’s strategic plan 2015-2018
underscores the need to share lessons learned from the program implementation
to the wider local, regional and international scientific audience for possible
scale-up. To this end we seek to mobilize and organize routine data and
information from our archives and from facility records in those facilities WLF
supports for possible dissemination. Data clerk(s) will work with a maternal
health consultant and WLF experts to map, collect and organize data on ruptured
uterus across all the supported facilities. This task will be supplemented by
documentation of case by case records for the proposed variables related to
uterine rupture for five years, from January 2011 to December, 2015, by
visiting all 15 supported facilities. Therefore, the data clerk will work with
WLF’s focal persons at the supported facilities to sort out patient records and
extract information for the specific cases as per indicated variables.
Access to all records and
information archived in the WLF’s data collection tools for the mentioned
period (2011 to 2015) will be provided and the data clerk will be assisted to
access records and information at the supported facilities from respective
local government authorities.
Responsibilities
The data clerk will work under the maternal health consultant to accomplish the
following;
1. Records and data mapping: Use the archived monthly and quarterly data
collection templates to map out ruptured uterus reported for five years
(identify the cases and record when and where it was performed), from January
2011 to December 2015.
2. Case records (file sorting): Working with WLF facility focal persons, sort out
relevant patient records in the supported facilities to identify ALL mapped
cases.
3. Data and information records entry: Entering reviewed/audit data and
information into the template(s) developed by the consultant and endorsed by
WLF experts.
4. Data organization and analysis: Analyze the collected information and share
findings with the maternal health consultant relevant variables for possible
publication.
Requirements
i. Minimum of post-graduate diploma from a recognized institution in monitoring
and evaluation, statistics, or related field and minimum of 3 years of
experience in M&E or related data work.
ii. Experience collecting and analyzing health facility service statistics and
other clinical data.
iii. Experience in the management of health research data
iv. Strong technical skills in data collection, management, monitoring and
evaluation.
v. Excellent writing and oral presentation skills
vi. Computer literacy: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
vii. Excellent computer skills using MS Office (Excel, Access, PowerPoint) and
viii. Data analysis software (STATA, SPSS, etc.).
ix. Fluency in Speaking/Reading/Writing English and Kiswahili.
x. Compensation: Considerable consultancy fee will be provided. Travel
arrangements will be made by World Lung Foundation.
How to apply: Email your
Curriculum Vitae and cover letter along with the names, email addresses and
phone numbers of three professional references to the Clinical Director by
email at SDominico@worldlungfoundation.org before 1600hrs, 10th October, 2016.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.