Senior Regional Digital Health Advisor

POSITION TYPE: Employee: Full Time, Ethiopia or Malawi POSITION TITLE : Sr Regional Digital Health Advisor DIVISION: Global Health REPORTS TO: Sr. Regional Director, Africa HR (Human Resources) WILL DETERMINE FLSA STATUS: Exempt Project HOPE is an international NGO with employees and volunteers who work around the globe, responding to the world’s most pressing global health challenges.

Throughout our 60-year legacy, Project HOPE has treated millions of patients, provided more than $3 billion worth of medicines to local health care organizations around the world helped build hundreds of health programs from the ground up, and responded to humanitarian crises worldwide. Code of Conduct It is our shared responsibility and obligation to treat each other with respect, take affirmative steps to prevent matters involving Sexual Exploitation Abuse and Trafficking in Persons, and to disclose all potential and actual violations of our Code of Conduct, which may include Conflicts of Interest, Fraud, Corruption, Discrimination or Harassment.

Together we can reinforce a culture of respect, integrity, accountability, and transparency.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Sr Regional Digital Health Advisor will play an important role in directing digital health and information systems strengthening—including interoperable platforms, electronic records, and integration with government informatics systems—building informatics capacity for country-owned, HIV/AIDS and real-time surveillance and program monitoring.

The Advisor will provide regional leadership on data collection, validation and visualization at the HQ level, as well as providing critical insights to regional and local teams on programmatic performance. They will regularly liaise with Project HOPE country offices, program staff, the HQ Technical Leadership Unit, and the Global Health regional teams.

In coordination with the regional team and technical unit, the Sr Regional Digital Health Advisor will contribute to strengthening Project HOPE’s health informatics and digitization efforts. The critical effort to visualize and utilize data for internal programmatic decision-making and external engagement will be the primary goal for this position.

Another key responsibility of the role will be to support project teams to integrate informatics systems with government-owned systems to ensure sustainability and transfer to government ownership. In addition, the activities may involve improving information management and data quality and strengthening knowledge sharing and learning across the organization and with the international health and development communities.

The Sr Regional Digital Health Advisor will coordinate directly with the country M E staff and project leadership to provide technical guidance and support the implementation of robust KLM procedures from start to finish across all programs, including but not limited to: the implementation of health informatics systems (DHIS2) or interoperability with the existing system, data collection for program monitoring, data quality assurance and validation efforts, data collection tools for baseline and endline evaluations with an emphasis on impact.

The skills required for this position include: Knowledge of health data systems and integration: The Sr Regional Digital Health Advisor should know how to analyze, design, evaluate, test, integrate, and maintain health data systems. They need to learn and help optimize new systems as technology evolves. Programming knowledge: The Sr Regional Digital Health Advisor must have programming knowledge in various computer languages.

For example, Java, Python, C, SQL, and other languages are useful for creating and managing databases. Data analytics skills: The Sr Regional Digital Health Advisor will lead the creation of global and regional dashboards and overall data visualization efforts with a DHIS2 consultant. The Senior Advisor will be responsible for developing and maintaining regular efforts of creating charts, graphs, and presentations to inform managers and practitioners of data-driven results and trends.

The Senior Advisor with some data analytics skills in Excel or Power BI, critical in visualizing data. Independent problem-solving: The Sr Regional Digital Health Advisor will collaborate with technical/programmatic staff and deal with big data at the global level. The Senior Advisor must possess problem-solving skills, tackling unexpected challenges, from data security to maintaining systems and supporting regional and local staff.

Communication and collaboration skills: The Sr Regional Digital Health Advisor will be an essential member of the Africa regional team as they will be responsible for interacting with people from a cross-section of their organization and with external stakeholder groups. The Sr Regional Digital Health Advisor must be able to explore insights from complex information via data management skills as important as it is to articulate these findings to internal and external stakeholders.

Innovation: The health informatics field is constantly evolving. New tools and programs are surfacing regularly. The Sr Regional Digital Health Advisor will be the key member to identify, review and propose new digital solutions to tackle complex global health problems. PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty with satisfactory results, with or without reasonable accommodation.

The requirements below represent the required knowledge, skill, and/or ability. Systems Strengthening for Digital Health and Informatics and Integration with Government Systems: Provide technical leadership on digital health and informatics system strengthening, working with Project HOPE project leadership and external stakeholders including ministries of health.

Provide technical leadership on integration of project informatics systems with government-owned systems. Support the development of performance dashboards for leadership to provide oversight across the organization. Assist in developing global, regional, and country-level performance dashboards. Create digital tools and products to ease sharing of our program performance and impact with internal and external stakeholders, such as Board Members’ quarterly dashboard on key indicators.

Market surveillance for new digital tools/innovation useful for Project HOPE in tackling complex programmatic issues or to bring innovative approaches to write proposals/get funding support. Data Management, Visualization, and Oversight: Assist country/project/regional and HQ teams in developing strategies for assessing the quality of collected data for the indicators and visualizing data for all indicators.

Participate in developing disseminating technical abstracts, articles, conference presentations strategy papers. Develop guidance and standards methodologies for the collection and analysis of data to allow for comparison and aggregation across time and the different projects. Support country/project team developing visual rendering of maps overlays for project performance.

Review and edit performance data and reporting materials; provide feedback to awardees or contract, as appropriate, and upload data to databases as requested by the GH leadership team. Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to assess program performance, discerning lessons learned and recommending improved outcomes.

Develop training materials for capacity building of staff. Support roll-out of new MEARL strategies and technology. Business Development, Project Design, and Planning: Support the development of Digital Health proposals for new business proposals. Review data collection tools as requested by country teams for compatibility in transforming into electronically for data collection.

Support country teams’ access to all necessary databases. Provide technical assistance and support at global health and emergency response project start-ups, including creating digital tools and performance dashboards. Work with projects to ensure that all digital KLM-related tools/supplies and products developed during the project’s duration are handed over to the country/ regional and HQ offices.

These may include databases, sample tools, etc. Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Master's Degree in health informatics, public health, statistics, or international development , or related field , plus ten (10) years of health informatics industry experience with experience or background in data management, epidemiology, public health, and health information management. Minimum of five (5) years of applied experience in designing, implementing and overseeing monitoring and evaluation tasks for a global or public health organization and/or emergency response organization.

Demonstrated experience in teamwork and building staff capacity within complex programming. Demonstrated success with acceptance of publications in peer-reviewed journals and abstracts/presentations to relevant international and regional scientific conferences. Demonstrated capabilities in capturing programmatic successes.

Excellent skill and experience in data review, interpretation, and visualization. Experience with KLM approaches for key donors such as USG, EU, DfID, UN. Experience in database design and other tools for information management, such as DHIS2 and CommCARE, as well as mobile data collection tools. Experience in the use of qualitative and quantitative software for data analysis as well as visualization tools such as SPSS, STATA, SAS, Atlas, Tableau, and Power BI.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS ENVIRONMENT: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be mobile in an office environment and able to use standard office equipment. Must be able to communicate in verbal and written form and must be able to travel internationally. Project HOPE employees may be required to travel or work in countries where working conditions are classified as “hardship.

” Work environment : Typical office environment with exposure to a minimal noise level. Emergency deployments may be in resource-deprived environments with austere living conditions. Travel for extended periods may be by air and/or other modes of transportation. While international travel is not a regular part of every job, programmatic needs may require it intermittently.

Project HOPE employees may be required to travel or work in countries where working conditions are classified as “hardship.” Due to the substantial number of inquiries, we receive, only candidates who have met the required experience qualifications for this position will be considered. No phone calls please. However, since we are active around the world in the field of public health, we may wish to retain your CV in our database for other/future opportunities, unless you direct us otherwise.