Campaign Digital Health Officer

Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Campaign Digital Health Officer to join our team in Abuja. Nigeria

Job purpose

The Digital Health Senior Technical Officer will support the design, conceptualization and implementation of innovative digital solutions targeted at addressing challenges with malaria surveillance, inefficiencies in programme implementation and evidence gathering for decision making.

Scope of work

The position will be responsible for the specification, compatibility assessment and maintenance of both hard and software for MC health digitization interventions. S/he will provide capacity building to national and sub-national government stakeholders on the management of community-based digital health platforms, as well as providing leadership and technical operational guidance in relation to its development and integration with other national systems.

Key working relationships

The Digital Health Senior Technical Officer will be based  in the Nigeria office and will report to the  Digital Health Manager. The Digital Senior Technical Officer will work directly with other project staff, in particular the CO MEL manager, Public Health Specialist, Digital Health Specialist, Knowledge and Communications Specialists, and Data Managers in  Nigeria.

Externally, this position will closely collaborate with various Ministry of Health departments, in particular the community health programme and department of health information, partner organisations, key technology partners, technical content experts, and other stakeholders. They will also maintain strong working relationships in the sub-national areas of operations.

Key accountabilities

Digital Health (70%)

• Design and carry out digital health needs assessment
• Appraise the health system readiness for digital solutions
• Identify appropriate digital solutions for the specific context
• Ensure appropriate technical operational capacity is sourced within a Ministry of Health to provide IT support to the management of digital health platforms at national and sub-national levels.
• Develop guidance documents to support the national and sub-national government stakeholders with the management of digital health platforms and associated devices.
• Develop training materials and content that can be shared with national and sub-national health stakeholders to support capacity building, particularly around DHIS2.
• Capacity building of sub-national and national government stakeholders on the management of digital health platforms and associated devices, through in-person and remote support.
• Provide technical assistance to sub-national and national government stakeholders on digital health platforms and device implementation and troubleshooting in Nigeria.
• Lead refinements to digital health platform new and existing, including the identification of platform development areas, the coordination of partners to agree on proposed solutions, and the execution of agreed changes either directly or through a contractor as required.
• Lead the integration of digital platforms and innovations with other national systems, including coordinating with partners and managing contractors as required.
• Collaborate with national and sub-national government stakeholders to establish local server hosting and capacity building of our digital health platforms at the inception phase of programming to ensure sustainability and scalability.
• Lead monitoring and evaluation activities on our digital platforms management, device maintenance, troubleshooting, and platform refinements with oversight from the M&E Specialist and document lessons learnt.
• Work with the Community Health and M&E specialists to incorporate additional community-level indicators into digital health platforms as needed, manage required platform changes, and the development of associated dashboard analytics.

Management (20%)

• Responsible for proactively sourcing and coordinating between key technical experts at Ministry of Health, Donors, Malaria Consortium, and other stakeholders as required, to provide input into platform refinements and system integrations.
• Oversee and manage any contractors, including the data officer required for platform refinements, or system integrations.
• Support effective project planning, budgeting and implementation of digital health strategies.
• Lead bid analysis in the country to ensure coordination, punctuality and identification of optimum procurement and products.

Strategic (10%)

• Contribute to the strategic development of Malaria Consortium’s work to strengthen government ownership of digital platforms and programming and its expansion within the country, including conducting needs assessments and exploration visits, and the provision of technical leadership in system administration, platform development and appropriate budgeting.
• Actively participate in relevant digital health coordination meetings and working groups, ensuring excellent digital health representation of Malaria Consortium in Nigeria.
• Support advocacy efforts and work alongside national level ER Malaria Consortium colleagues to ensure a strong advocacy plan is developed and monitored.

Person specification

Qualifications and experience:

Essential

• Master’s degree in relevant field (information systems, computer science or similar field).
• Experience, in implementing digital solutions, preferably in the health system.
• Previous experience in capacity building and providing technical assistance regarding the implementation of digital solutions to stakeholders at various levels including but not limited to government actors, international organizations, NGOs/CBO’s, healthcare providers and community level structures.
• Experience in developing Android applications and complex data collection forms.
• Experience in system administration and hardware management.
• Experience in integrating information management systems.
• Experience in developing dashboards for data visualisation and analysis.
• Strong knowledge and experience working with DHIS2
• Essential to have experience in coding with XML, SQL, HTML, PHP
• Experience of working in Nigeria
• Experience and understanding of the Nigerian health systems context both at national and sub-national levels, particularly community health systems.

Desirable

• Familiar with monitoring and evaluation of digital health interventions.
• Strong knowledge and experience working with CommCare.
• Experience in establishing community health information systems.
• Experience in the server setup.
• Experience in using geo-spatial intelligence tools.

Work-based skills:

Essential

• Strong critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.
• Proactive and able to work independently with limited support.
• Strong communication, and relationship management skills.
• Good capacity development skills
• Ability to work effectively with local stakeholders.
• Excellent personal and time management skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in a challenging environment.
• Positive work attitude.
• Attention to detail.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Due to the nature of this role we will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and the role might be filled and closed before the closing date. Early applications are encouraged.

To apply for this position, you will need to have the right to work in Nigeria.

The Company

Established in 2003, Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organisations specialising in the prevention, control, and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable populations.

Our mission is to save lives and improve health in Africa and Asia through evidence-based programmes that combat targeted diseases and promote Universal Health Coverage.