Latest Jobs: Data Officer
Applications are invited for suitable candidates in Pathfinder International to full fill their vacant position advertised in daily Classified Source newspaper dated 08 March, 2024.
Pathfinder International
Date Posted: | :: | 08 March, 2024 |
Department: | :: | Pathfinder International |
Category | Sector | :: | INGO |
Newspaper: | :: | Classified Source Newspaper |
Education: | :: | Bachelor |
Total Vacancies: | :: | Details in attached ads |
Vacancy Location: | :: | Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa KPK, Pakistan |
Job Type: | :: | Full Time |
Expected Last Date: | :: | 17 March, 2024 |
Vacant Positions: Data Officer
- DATA OFFICER
Currently, the Pathfinder International Peshawar is now looking for Data Officer to join their organization / team.
JOB Description: Data Officer
Management Information System
- Lead and maintain Pathfinder management information system based in DHIS2.
- Allows for interoperability and integration across applications supporting data collection, reporting, and analysis. Implements DHIS2 system and procedures that ensure reliable information is available at all data use points.
Data Standards
- Develop standard operating procedures for regular reporting, data quality audits, data integrity, data privacy, calculation of key performance indicators and global metrics, analysis and sharing.
- Oversees compliance across information systems.
- Supervises system access, managing logins, rights and security; roles and responsibilities for staff supporting and using the system, training staff on use; ensuring integration and interoperability between DHIS2 singular systems; building or updating input and output views, working with outside vendors to update.
- Ensures compatibility with donor requirements and government reporting processes, as required.
Data for Decision-making and Strategic Direction
- Provides access to information and promotes the use of health delivery and program data at all levels across Pathfinder, ensuring that the organization can track program performance, meets donor reporting requirements, learns from results, demonstrates contributions to coverage, and estimates global impact on strategic priorities.
- Presents findings to program owners and leadership in a way that is useful for decision support, benchmarking, performance tracking, isolating Pathfinder contribution to health coverage and impact, and donor cultivation.
Data Views and Data Capacity
- Oversees designing and building objects in data collection work with the database and reporting software to develop easy-use dashboards, forms, and the like for staff members to review and analyze data trends, ensuring principles of health science, epidemiology and demography are upheld throughout.
- Builds capacity for production and interpretation of report outputs, tabular and graphic depiction of data, and data visualizations.
- Creates dashboards and produces regular reports that help managers see opportunities to improve delivery, increase scale, and gain efficiency.
Technical Assistance
- Fosters best practices tracking health services and outputs of Pathfinder programs at facility and district level.
- Supports national HMIS and evidence-based practice and policy as mandated with Pathfinder programs.
- Contributes to external working groups for the standardization of indicators and best practices for data collection and use.
Lessons Learned
- Develops the system and guidelines for the enterprise for use of findings gained from information systems and interoperability, shares lessons learned and documents the identification of visibility opportunities for Pathfinder.
- Designs and conducts evaluations and reviews of information systems.
Minimally Required Job-Specific Competencies:
- Database Management Systems: Foundational knowledge of the DHIS2 platform and data quality exercises.
- Data Collection: Good analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Data Reports: Ability to track record of data collection tools as part of the data reporting.
- Technical Support: Ability to provide technical support for MOH (Ministry of Health) registers and reporting.
- PC Applications: Foundational knowledge of SPSS or other statistical programs.
- Software Applications: Foundational knowledge of MS Office products, including MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- Organization, Planning, and Multi-tasking: Advanced organizational and planning skills, project planning and management skills. Proven ability to set priorities, meet deadlines and multi-task with minimal supervision.
- Communication and Influencing Skills: Proven ability to influence others through diplomacy and proven oral and written communication skills.
- Organization, Planning and Multi-tasking: Advanced organizational and planning skills, project planning and management skills. Proven ability to set priorities, meet deadlines and multi-task with minimal supervision. Proven ability to coordinate activities.
- Self-Management and Teamwork: Ability to work independently or as a member of the team, ability to be detail-oriented and consistently accurate, ability to manage stress effectively in a fast-paced environment, and ability to quickly learn new systems, processes and procedures and adapt local practices to global standards.
- Matrix Management: Ability to thrive in a matrixed organization.
- Confidentiality: Proven ability to maintain confidentiality on work-related issues.
How to Apply?
Candidate who is interested in the position should submit their CVs (together with the required papers listed in the attached advertisements) before the closing date of 17 March, 2024. When applying for a post, applicants are obliged to clearly state the job title they are applying for. All equally qualified candidates, are given equal consideration under the Pathfinder International programme.