Medecins Sans Frontieres Spain

Position: Medical Data Entry Supervisor

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Contract

Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Posted date: 35 minutes ago

Application Deadline: Jul, 31/2021 (8 days left)

Job Description

Implementing and Maintaining emergency alert detection and epidemiology surveillance systems/monitoring according to MSF protocols, standards and procedures in order to contribute to appropriate evidence-based decision-making using well-managed health data in outbreak and emergency MSF programs.

Accountabilities:

• Ensure collation and entry of all data identified by project medical referent for collection (e.g. morbidity, mortality, surveillance of diseases of epidemics, nutrition, violence-related mass casualties, and other disasters, etc) into the appropriate data management system while ensuring the quality of data.
• Implementing and maintaining a surveillance system to monitor epidemiological trends of relevant outbreak-prone diseases. Performing surveillance and/or active case finding, including ensuring understanding of the need for consistent case definitions and data recording.
• Managing data systems and ensuring accurate, high-quality databases; analyzing results and preparing regular written reports on progress and findings for project medical referent
• Knowing, implementing and following up the MSF, National, and universal alert and emergency threshold and other protocols for different kinds of scenarios
• Know and ensure proper use of software used for health data recording (i.e. HMIS, REACH, etc.)
• Ensuring high standards quality information /data /Respecting medical secrets and confidentiality at all times.( when necessary)
• Follow and monitor the trends of diseases under public health surveillance,
• Analysis and interpretation of surveillance data and provide a report, regular weekly & monthly feedbacks
• Check to be sure that all questions are asked and the responses are recorded during a proactive call
• Follow the instructions of the PMR in order to ensure efficient data collection.
• Administer each proactive call and collect data from each interviewee according to a standard operating procedure.
• Report/share all best practices and challenges to the MERT coordination.
• Work under the supervision/guidance of PMR and Project Coordinator
• Collaborating with Project coordination to influence key decisions
• The ability to travel outside the duty station is required.

Emergencies and assessments

• Assist in alerts’ verification assessments as requested.
• Participates in the implementation of medical activities in case of MSF emergency response intervention.     

Information Technology

• Assist medical staff in the understanding and use of the MSF data tool.
• Responsible for data management and use of the data tool: weekly backup, virus updates, report problems.
• Focal person for GIS, REACH and HMIS of MERT medical data.

Other:

• Participate in project meetings and provide when necessary information on alert detection, data collection, data entry, reporting and trends in the data that require further analysis.
• Receives the PMR feedback and acts on it according to the particular needs, after sharing it with the medical coordination.

Job Requirements

Education:

• Nursing degree/diploma
• Desirable Bachelor in Science of Nursing

Experience:

• Desirable 2 years of previous experience and previous experience in other NGO’s
• Demonstrable experience in supervising and training others in a team setting

Languages: English, Amharic and Somali essential

Knowledge: Essential computer literacy (word, excel)

Competencies

• Results and Quality Orientation L2
• Teamwork and Cooperation L2
• Behavioral Flexibility L2
• Stress Management L3

How to apply

All applicants should send a CV, cover letter, educational records, work certificates and a copy of their ID card either by email to msfe-addis-admin-epp@barcelona.msf.org

Please indicate the vacancy title on the application.

APPLICATIONS WILL BE REVIEWED ON ROLLING BASIS and POSITION COULD BE FILLED BEFORE THE CLOSING DATE.

Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

Copies of CV + supporting documents are non-returnable. Phone calls are not allowed.