Number of position: One

Duty Station: Addis Ababa with frequent travel to regions

Job Summary: The central HIS Advisor will be responsible for supporting of central SI project activities by coordinating the requirement gathering, analysis, interpretation, testing, deployment and use of enhanced SmartCare and other selected electronic information at all levels of health system. The incumbent will also participate in the implementation of the eHealth and other systems as well as follow-up of implementation and mentoring of health workers and system users. He/she will also advise and play critical role in the data analysis and quality assurance features of the electronic systems as well as in designing, coordinating, undertaking and reporting data quality assessment activities related with the E-Health Systems.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

·         Organize and participate in eHealth systems requirement gathering, interpretation, design and deployment with focus both health system and data management concepts

·         Advise the software development team with respect to the health and perform system analysis for the eHealth systems design

·         Plan, lead and participate on the software testing plan preparation and deployment with other program staffs and software development team members

·         Support system updates, modifications and ongoing improvements to be made, by liaising with software development team and the other HIS teams

·         Advise proper system requirement documentation and updating for all related eHealth systems to be used related with HIV /AIDS HIS in the organization

·         Participate on the standardization and data quality assurance activities in designing, deployment and, Monitoring &evaluation of eHealth systems to be designed by SI project

·         Involve and advise designing, implementation, testing & support of other HIV related programs like case-based surveillance e-health systems design and implementation

·         Participate and support the ongoing design, scale-up, improvement and implementation of eHealth information systems including SmartCare, Redcap, LIS & other eHealth systems

·         Coordinate, design and implement effective trainings at central, regional, and facility levels and also lead preparation of high quality training manuals, SOPs and procedures on various eHealth systems

·         Work closely with monitoring and evaluation (M&E) professionals to enhance knowledge and skills on using appropriate ICT

·         Participate in coordination of SI project activities and produce periodic project performance reports and submit as required

·         Complete performance reports regularly

·         Carry out other tasks as required.

Required Qualification and Work Experience

·         Bachelor's degree in public health, nursing, laboratory, or related field and Master Degree in public health, health informatics, or epidemiology

·         7 years of relevant experience on Health Management Information Systems (HMIS)

·         High level experience in database management, software requirement analysis and system deployment

·         Proven experience in the provision of capacity building activities to FMOH, RHBs,                           Zonal Health Departments, Woreda Health Offices, or health facilities on HMIS

·         Strong oral and written skills in English and Amharic

·         Proven experience in training and capacity building