Senior Health Data and Information Officer

Job Overview/Summary: the Senior Health Data and Information Officer will be responsible on harmonizing datasets for all health program components, and will strengthen the approaches to measurement and use of data for programmatic decision making. This position will work closely with the Health Coordinator, Health team members, and M&E Coordinator. In addition, s/he will receive support from and work in close collaboration with IRC’s HQ and regional technical units, in particular the Regional Health Technical Advisor, Regional ICT4P Coordinator, and the DHIS2 technical team. The position will be based in Amman and will report to the Health Coordinator. This is a key position that is crucial to monitoring and reporting on the support provided by IRC and the outcomes achieved.

Major Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with country and regional health and M&E teams to ensure that the health data and system are meeting objectives of monitoring activities, data management needs, reporting requirements, and information sharing;
• Define and implement processes and procedures for information management

• Perform training of field staff and roll-out of field-level tools

Oversee and Maintain the Health Information Management

• Maintain harmonized datasets for all program components in line with the Syria HMIS strategy, programming and data management needs;
• Ensure system remains aligned with Syria Monitoring for Action plans;
• Regularly provide capacity building to increase quality entry and usage of data;
• Work in collaboration with the health and M&E teams to continually identify gaps and solutions in the system including data collection, entry, analysis and dissemination;
• Ensure that data is submitted by IRC and partner facilities in a timely manner, enforcing data collection, entry, and quality standards;
• Provide information for internal and donor reporting;
• Support health team to continually adapt systems to context and improve quality;
• Accountable for ongoing information security of the HIS system;
• Manage user access and accounts;

Management responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the partnership team to support the growth of the partner strategy and transition of facilities;
• Manage day-to-day supervision and leadership to health information management team members to assist with their development as a high functioning team;
• Actively engage with Health and M&E Teams and others to ensure optimal work flow coordinating and performing processes as necessary to support high quality patient care;
• Respond to and mitigate health information management issues including confidentiality, information privacy and security, information storage and retrieval, data retention, authorship and authentication of data management documentation, and use of classification systems;
• Other tasks as requested by supervisor.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to:Health Coordinator
Supervises: HMIS Officers, Assistants
Other Internal and/or external key contacts:

Internal: Heath Coordinator, Health team members, Regional Health Technical Advisor, Regional ICT4P and MEAL teams, M&E Coordinator

External:IRC’s local partner organizations, WHO focal points, and other local INGO and NGOs