Background:

John Snow, Inc. (JSI) is a public health management firm, headquartered in the United States, dedicated to improving the health of individuals and communities throughout the world. JSI has been implementing public health work in Ethiopia for over 25 years.

JSI is implementing the five-year Digital Health Activity in Ethiopia, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The purpose of this Activity is to support the Government of Ethiopia (GOE) to improve the quality of health services and create a sustainable health care system through the use of data for decision making, as well as to provide similar services to other countries in Africa or to respond to a crisis in Ethiopia (as needed). The primary objectives of the Activity are to 1) support information technology systems and data repository at all levels; 2) build a culture of data use; and 3) improve capacity and governance of MOH health information systems management.

The Data Insight Specialist will work under the direction of Senior Lead Technical Advisor: Data Use and will act as an important Data Insight resource for the Activity and its partners. The Data Insight Specialist is responsible for leading the overall implementation of analytics and provide insight to data reveals to the project staffs. S/he will liaise between technical teams and program teams in producing and sharing analytical reports. S/he will be responsible to explain data analytics, triangulation results, process and insights of results for program decision making.   S/he will apply relevant skills and experience to support the data analytics platform of the project and will work closely with the digitization unit, data scientist, MEL teams and other program team members.

Responsibilities:

Specific responsibilities of the Data Insight Specialist will include, but is not limited to the following:

•  Liaison between technical teams and program teams in data analytics platforms.
• Work closely with the rest of the team in designing and developing data sources for various Digital Health Activity (DHA) tasks.
• Work with project leads in the development and implementation of Data analytics and visualization system. 
• Produce analytics reports based on DHA coding efforts and explain the insight they reveal to program leads and support decision making.
• Conduct data triangulation and deep dives of data quality checks.
• Create and maintain up-to-date catalog of DHA dashboards.
• Tracks and share the performance of data use through analytical dashboards. 
• Ensure project has well defined dashboards that include key monitoring indicators.
• Supports MoH, RHBs, Woredas, hospitals staffs and partners in accessing dashboards, provide insights of the dashboards content and build capacity of all DHA partners.
• Work closely with leads of the project in the data transformation process.
• Responsible for implementing JSI's Accountability Framework and Code of Conduct, and adhering to JSI's polices on fraud management.
• Any additional responsibilities, as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in relevant discipline IT, Information Systems, Business, Statistics, etc is required.
• At least five years of experience working on data analytics, visualization of health-related projects.
• Experience working on the process of software development using agile methodology is required.
• Experience in leading architecture and design decisions while working on software development project is required.
• Good understanding of .NET framework, C#, AngularJS and SQL Server is required.
• Proficiency in project management tools (JIRA, Trello, Slack…) is required.
• Exceptional ability to analyze multiple sources of data to identify data trends.
• Expertise with mobile technologies, GIS and use of data visualization tools including Tableau or Power BI to support clear and efficient project communication to stakeholders is required.
• Experience in data warehousing is a plus.
• Knowledge and experience in use of STATA and/or SPSS statistical packages for data analysis is strongly desired.
• Knowledge and experience with the main existing electronic health information systems in use in Ethiopia (DHIS2, eCHIS, and EMR) is a plus.
• Knowledge and experience with the Ethiopian Health Extension Program (HSTP, IRR and HMIS) is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work successfully with teams/units across the project and organization.
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills in Amharic and English required.
• Ability to travel up to 25% time throughout Ethiopia.

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