Senior Strategic Information Officer

  • Contract
  • Full Time
  • Lusaka

Cidrz

Title: Senior Strategic Information Officer Ref No. SI/TB/31/10/22
Grade: C6
Project: P333 – USAID TBLON
Location: Head Office – Lusaka District, Lusaka Province

Publish Date: 31 Oct 2022 00:00

Deadline Date: 10 Nov 2022 00:00

Description:
The Senior Strategic Information Officer will be part of the Strategic Information team at CIDRZ HQ. He/she will be responsible for overseeing all data/information related aspects that are in place and that data management best practices are followed for various programmatic performance monitoring and research studies.

Main duties
Provide guidance in the design and development of data collection tools for TBLON and research projects
Provide guidance in the design and creation of routine performance monitoring tools and reports
Ensure that weekly and monthly reports are submitted on time
Provide guidance in the extraction of routine and ad hoc datasets for programmatic and research studies
Provide guidance in the development of SOPs for handling programmatic and research data
Management of overall lifecycle of programmatic and research studies data
Ensure that there are adequate staff to participate in data collection and QA/QI activities
Take part in departmental planning activities
Mentor Strategic Information Officers, Data Coordinators and Data Collectors where appropriate on definition of all performance monitoring indicators
Presentation of data to various internal and external stakeholders
Ensure to put in place programs to train staff on data collection and entry procedures and common errors/problems within the clinic and at other sites as requested
Develop electronic data collection tools for TBLON and other research projects

Qualifications
Degree in Computing/ICT, Mathematics, Engineering, or related subject
Experience in an M&E team working on PEPFAR MER indicators will be an added advantage
Background or experience in Software Engineering
Database querying and management in any RDBMS, e.g., SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres etc
Advanced skills in any data analysis tool e.g., R, STATA, Excel etc
Advanced software programming skills in an object oriented or functional programming language
Strong team leadership attributes
Strong analytical skills
Strong communication skills
Ability to work in a very high-pressure environment
Very good interpersonal skills
Good team player
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

To apply for this job please visit jobs.cidrz.org.

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