DATA MANAGER – HEALTH EMERGENCY DATA MANAGEMENT (SSA)

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**. Background**

The Health Emergencies Programme within WHO country office in Namibia in Collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Services aims to minimize the health consequences of outbreaks and emergencies by: helping the country to strengthen its capacities to detect, prevent and respond to health emergencies; mitigating the risk of high threat diseases and infectious hazards; detecting and assessing emergency health threats and informing public health decision-making; responding rapidly and effectively to emergencies under a coordinated incident management system, and ensuring WHO's work in emergencies is effectively managed, adequately staffed and operationally ready to fulfill its mission.

The candidate will be stationed in the Ministry of Health and Social Services in order to support the data management of COVID-19 program in order to provide technical inputs for informed decision-making in the overall data management for COVID-19, including the use of the GO- DATA platform. This support includes the provision of high-impact technical support for the production, collection, analysis and synthesis, and dissemination of quality health data and information. The support will help the country to coordinate the pandemic data in order to detect the emergence of new clusters and surge in cases, which would allow the Incident Management System (IMS) to rapidly respond and use evidence-based data in responding to the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. This candidate will work within the strategic framework of the Ministry to strengthen data management, monitoring, and evaluation in health.

2. Assignment Summary:

The incumbent will be part of the MoHSS Namibia team and will contribute to strengthening the data management-related activities for COVID-19 and any other public health threats /outbreaks which may emerge. The primary role will be to strengthen the data management capacity at the Ministry (Public Health Emergency Operation Centre (PHEOC)).

Description of duties:

Under the direct supervision of the Health Information Division Head and COVID-19 Surveillance Pillar Lead in MoHSS, the Data Manager will undertake the following tasks:

- Ensure the capture of all data, perform quality control and quality assurance of important variables in emergency response using the approved protocol.

- Establish data quality control procedures to facilitate the accurate entry and transfer of data into GO-DATA, DHS2, and other databases being used by MoHSS.

- Provide technical support to the team at the PHEOC and Health Information and Research Directorate and the vaccination data management.

- Update dashboard indicators daily and other key data elements

- Conduct training and supervision, including coaching to personnel involved in data management to build capacity at the national and sub-national level to improve data quality and reporting

- Provide robust and timely epidemiological data analysis to continuously inform risk assessment and support the response's operational decision-making.

- Assist with producing daily situational reports and weekly epidemiological reports for related health conditions and disseminate to the next level.

- Support the synthesis and verification of data collected and produced by different data collection methods within the COVID-19 response.

- Support the production and harmonization of data management tools, standards, and methodologies for quality data collection, analysis, and synthesis.

- Support activities to disseminate health data and information for the application of knowledge.

- Perform other tasks as delegated by the Supervisor

3. Educational background and experience

Education:

- Essential: University degree in statistics, informatics (in health), environmental health, public health, epidemiology, health information systems, or other related disciplines from an accredited/ recognized institute

- Desirable: Master’s degree in a related discipline as well as complementary disciplines including Health Informatics, Biostatistics, Health Information Systems, Public Health, Epidemiology, or other relevant qualification. for

- Excellent knowledge of English (spoken and written) and at least one local language

- Strong analytic skills

- Strong networking and relationship-building skills

- Interpersonal skills and teamwork

- Computer and management of data and information

Experience

Essential: Have at least five (5) years of experience in data management, information management (or related field), monitoring, needs assessment, project management, data management, and information dissemination in the public health sector or health development sector, at the national level, part of which in emergency management or humanitarian context in technical positions. Experience in developing and promoting collaborative partnerships. Experience with the compilation and analysis of large datasets from multiple sources.

Desirable: Good knowledge of the public health program or epidemiology, and emergency response work.

Skills

Essential: The incumbent should be able to demonstrate an understanding of web-based or applications and computer-based applications for data management such as Go-Data and DHIS 2; Limitations of data from various sources, information systems, and approaches to data quality analysis; Review of data quality, in particular, the health data system and approaches to improve data quality; Analysis and synthesis of health data and interpretation and reporting of results through a high level of analytical skills; Advanced ability to design, manage, analyze and coordinate complex information system projects, computer-based applications, and databases, web-based tools; Processes and mechanisms for effective dissemination of health and decision-making (Go.Data, Microsoft Excel, CSPro application, Table and STATA, R, EpiInfo, PowerBI).

Desirable: The ability to influence decisions and policies will be an advantage.

4. Competencies for the required assignment:

- Knowing and managing yourself

- Communicate in a credible and effective way

- Teamwork

- Producing results

- Respecting and promoting individual and cultural difference

5. Languages: Be fluent in English and in at least one local language.

6. Duration: Minimum of ten (10) months depending on the availability of funds.

Contract type: Special Service Agreement

Proposed starting: 01 May 2022

Duty station: Windhoek, , Namibia