The Health Informatics Specialist will provide Health informatics development and management to NASCP by leveraging on technology and data management principles to enhance healthcare processes, decision-making, and patient outcomes. Ensuring accurate, timely, and complete reporting of programmatic information on the Global Fund grants
<ul> <li>Development and management of various HI/IT solutions to enhance performance</li> <li>Work with different stakeholders to manage and analyze health data</li> <li>Implementing and maintaining health information systems</li> <li>Develop and optimize electronic health records systems</li> <li>Work to build a health informatic system for data collecting and reporting.</li> <li>Provide training and support to the NASCP SI component on the use of health informatics tools and systems, promoting their adoption and usage.</li> </ul>
<ul> <li>A minimum of 5 years substantive post graduation experience in software development, developing, deploying and/or advising on ICT solutions, preferably with a development organization and/or public sector organization.</li> <li>Ability to code programming languages like Python, Java(Spring boot and Hibernate), , and JavaScript, with some level of database management knowledge particularly on PostgreSQL and MySQL. </li> <li>Skills in mobile development like Flutter or Kotlin and frontend technologies like ReactJS will be an added advantage.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Experience in developing, evaluating, and advising on IT systems and platforms for business operations. Thorough knowledge of process automation, project management, and ICT.</li> <li>Experience with software and HI/IT solutions development and management</li> <li>Training on or demonstrated experience of security audit, infrastructure, and network design.</li> <li>Experience in evaluating business processes, portfolio management & information system needs.</li> <li>Excellent knowledge of Information Systems, ICT best practices, and current application development methodologies.</li> <li>Ability to establish and maintain good working relations with individuals of different cultural backgrounds, fluency in English is required.</li> <li>Experience in designing and managing complex projects;</li> <li>Ability to ensure effective coordination with multiple stakeholders;</li> <li>Ability to deliver time-sensitive projects with tight deadlines;</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive information appropriately</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information to non-specialist audiences</li> </ul>
<ul> <li>Establish and document software development guidelines, coding standards, and conducting training sessions as needed;</li> <li>Ensure that NASCP uses a more secure safe and coded programming language</li> <li>Provide technical support to healthcare staff for using information systems effectively</li> <li>Conduct training sessions on new health technologies</li> </ul>
The officer will be accountable to the NASCP Head SI
S/he will be paid competitive fees for the agreed duration based on qualification and experience.
Deadline for submission of application for this position is Thu Mar 28 2024 23:59:59 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Any application sent in after the set deadline will be disqualified.
