Job Description

The Organization

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday 
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated 

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued. 

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Save the Children International seeks to always be a child safe organization through fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and to improve the living standards of the child.

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Position: HIS Officer

Location: Taiz

Grade: 4b

Contract Length: till December (with possibility to renewal)

The Opportunity:

Design format for field data collection and to ensure all health information is consolidated and represented in to facilitate analysis. Monitoring the progress of the program against the target. facilitating all Human resources related activities for health workers, with full coordination with Project Officers to ensure capacity building plan is done and implemented.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Help the program officer and project officers in training the new staff in health  information system formats and make sure that all concern people at health facility level is understand the reporting system.
• Revise and enter weekly and monthly report into health data base after he/she receive it from project officers. And ensure that all information entered is correct and valid.
• Develop monthly update and graphs showing the progress of the project and share it with health facilities staff through Project officers.
• Analyse health information data per each program and illustrates the achievement for each month and quarter and presented in monthly program meeting beside updated in the monthly health newspaper.
•  Feed back the program Officer and Project officers about the common mistakes in the reports to be corrected and checked again with medical staff at health facilities.
• To report regularly health data for project officer.
• Analyse the data and make report against the indicators of the program to see the level of the achievement.
• To help in conducting health surveys and assessments staring from planning up to data analysis and assessment report.
• To provide analytic report for health projects in the program monthly meeting.
• Fill in IPTT in monthly basis and submit to program officer, Fill in the SRFs for clusters. And send it back for Program officer and project officer.
• Visit health facilities to illustrate the progress and train medical staff in data management
• Working effectively as team member and solve staff problems whenever occur.

General

• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

Qualifications and Experience:                  

• Qualified Medical staff Medical statistician/ Nurse/ Midwife .
• Has experience on data management not less than two years.
• Understanding rights based approaches and participatory concepts and practical experience. 
• Has good experience in health information system.
• Strong commitment to work with willingness to adopt a participatory and consultative management approach.
• Flexible, adaptable, able to improve and work in stressful, volatile environment.
• Has good experience in Excel soft program, and data entry in computer.