General Summary
The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is a Ugandan not-for-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen health systems in Africa, with strong emphasis on infectious diseases, through research and capacity development. IDI has six operational areas through which it works to achieve its mission: Prevention, Care and Treatment; Training, Research, Laboratory services (including the CAP-certified IDI Core Lab & Translational Lab), Global Health Security and Health System Strengthening.
With support from the US Government (USAID), IDI is implementing a 5-year (2021–2026) Project- the USAID Local Partner Health Services-TB (LPHS-TB) Activity. The project aims at substantially contributing to the reduction of Uganda’s TB burden by 2026 through scaling up evidence-based and high-impact interventions towards the achievement of 90% treatment coverage and success rate for all forms of TB (including the drug-resistant TB) in Kampala, Mukono, and Wakiso districts. Effective October 2024, the direct district-level scope of USAID LPHS-TB Activity was modified to include all the nine districts of Karamoja sub-region in North-Eastern Uganda i.e. Abim, Amudat, Kaabong, Karenga, Kotido, Moroto, Nabilatuk, Nakapiripirit and Napak. The USAID LPHS-TB Activity builds on the successes of the USAID PACT Karamoja project and successes registered in the last three years of Activity implementation to address the remaining gaps in TB/HIV prevention, identification, and treatment.
In order to successfully implement the project in the Karamoja sub-region, IDI is looking for a competent and experienced individual to fill the position of Data Officer.
The data officer will provide ongoing technical assistance to the project, district and facility-based teams in recording and management of National and project related data in line with current national guidelines. S/he will also assist the MEL officer in entry, cleaning and analysis of data captured in the project MIS, eCBSS, DHIS-2 and other databases relating to TB data entry at national and facility levels ensuring generation and maintenance of high-quality data for use to guide project implementation efforts.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and management oversight to facility data teams to ensure timely delivery on key project tasks.
- Lead mentorship and training efforts to build capacity of facility teams to generate and maintain high quality patients’ data using standard HMIS tools.
- Establish systems that support confidentiality and safe storage of patient clinical care records within facility premises at all times.
- Maintain up-to-date electronic paper-based records of TB and TB/HIV patients in care including registers, clinical notes, lab results etc in line with the current national MEL system.
- Support stock monitoring and management of facility data tools and all data-related supplies to avert stock out.
- Support facility performance monitoring initiatives and routine data use activities to continuously guide implementation of key project activities.
- Guide health facility teams to conduct regular data quality assessments, and to implement and document data quality improvement activities.
- Support facility data teams to compile and submit accurate HMIS and programmatic reports according to the set project, donor and Ministry of Health reporting timelines.
- Any other duties as may reasonably be assigned from time to time.
Academic Qualifications
- • Degree in any data management related field
- • Postgraduate training in M&E is an added advantage
- • Additional training in medical data management.
Person Specification
- Degree in any data management related field
- Postgraduate training in M&E is an added advantage
- Additional training in medical data management.
- Experience in the navigation of eCBSS, DHIS2 and USG databases
- Previous experience in supporting busy TB/HIV district data management systems is an added advantage
- Previous experience of working in hard-to-reach sub-regions of Uganda is an added advantage
- Up-to-date technical knowledge of HIV/TB data management.
- Good communication, leadership, organization, and management skills.
- Understands client confidentiality and exhibits high level of ethical conduct
- Has strong computer literacy including MS package
- Good understanding of public health systems and the national HMIS.
