{"id":18626,"date":"2021-01-01T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/?p=18626"},"modified":"2021-01-01T01:24:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T22:24:04","slug":"job-vacancy-at-mdh-district-data-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/job-vacancy-at-mdh-district-data-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Vacancy at MDH – District Data Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"
District Data Officer <\/b><\/div>\n
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Management and Development for Health (MDH) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization whose primary aim is to contribute to address public health priorities of the people of Tanzania and the world at large. These priorities include: communicable diseases such as HIV\/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Reproductive, Maternal, New-born and Child health (RMNCH); Nutrition; Non-Communicable Diseases of public health significance; as well as Health System Strengthening. MDH strongly believes in and works in partnership with various local and global institutions, Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC); President\u2019s Office Regional Authorities and Local Government (PORALG); donor agencies; academic and non-academic institutions; implementing partners; civil society, community-based and faith-based organizations and others<\/p>\n

In this regard MDH now invites applications from suitable, qualified and skilled persons to fill the following available vacancies.<\/p>\n

Afya Kwanza Project Vacancies; December 2020<\/p>\n

Position:\u00a0DISTRICT DATA OFFICER<\/b><\/p>\n

Project: AFYA KWANZA<\/p>\n

Location: TABORA<\/p>\n

Reports to: DISTRICT PROJECT MANAGER<\/p>\n

Job Summary:<\/b><\/p>\n

District Data Officer is a key person in the district to ensure Afya Kwanza data collection, organization, reporting and use. She\/he is responsible for maintaining databases in all facilities including troubleshooting challenges reported by data officers. DDOs oversees and supports data officers to undertake their routine tasks on day to day basis.<\/p>\n

Duties and Responsibilities.<\/b><\/p>\n

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  • Developing, modifying, and maintaining databases in the respective district.<\/li>\n
  • Developing data input controls, range and logic checks, and other data management processes based on input from other team members.<\/li>\n
  • Ensuring the accuracy of data entry and collaborate with study-specific data supervisors to resolve data entry issues.Designing, modifying, generating, and maintaining database reports using Microsoft Access in collaboration with other District Data Officers.<\/li>\n
  • Training data team in the use of data entry and cleaning programs.<\/li>\n
  • Training Data Supervisors to develop and implement ad hoc queries; and provide them with technical assistance in running data cleaning programs, to resolve discrepancies in data entry.<\/li>\n
  • Perform programming to manipulate and clean data, create variables and format libraries, develop queries for data cleaning, and prepare analysis datasets; analyse and tabulate data; and create graphic representations of statistical information.<\/li>\n
  • Working with Data Supervisors to develop standard operating procedures for QA\/QC, evaluation of data entry accuracy, and work performance of the data team staff members.<\/li>\n
  • Monitor district progress on weekly basis and work with district project manager to report on weekly and monthly district performance.<\/li>\n
  • Mentor facility staff on data analysis and reporting to ensure data driven decision making.<\/li>\n
  • Developing relevant knowledge and skills through training and self-study; remain current on new trends in DBMS; and inform program development management.<\/li>\n
  • Any other duty as assigned by immediate supervisor.<\/li>\n
  • Requirements: Education, work experience and skills:<\/li>\n
  • Advanced Diploma or bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related field.<\/li>\n
  • Minimum of two years of data management and or programming<\/li>\n
  • Able to work with MS Access and Visual Basic or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)<\/li>\n
  • Good in both oral and written English and Kiswahili<\/li>\n
  • Able to work independently and in team<\/li>\n
  • Able to generate reports from various data bases<\/li>\n
  • Experience in working in working in donor funded programs and clinical research trials will be an added advantage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    TO APPLY:<\/b><\/p>\n

    Interested candidates should submit an application letter indicating clearly the position applied for, a detailed copy of their CV, and names and contact information (email addresses and telephone numbers) of three work related referees.<\/p>\n

    Applications should be submitted by 11th January, to the Director of Human Resource through e-mail\u00a0hr@mdh-tz.org<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    District Data Officer Management and Development for Health (MDH) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization whose primary aim is to contribute to address public health priorities of the people of Tanzania and the world at large. These priorities include: communicable diseases such as HIV\/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Reproductive, Maternal, New-born and Child health (RMNCH); Nutrition; Non-Communicable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tzjobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}