The US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Impact Malaria project is PMI’s flagship global malaria service delivery project, helping to improve the quality and increase the delivery of malaria diagnosis and treatment services in up to 27 countries around the world. PMI Impact Malaria is a USAID contract hosted and led by PSI as the prime contractor. PMI Impact Malaria works with national malaria control programs to help tackle these challenges by:
Closing the gaps in malaria service delivery to get the right medicine, with the correct diagnosis, to patients in need, in the timeliest manner.
Unlocking the potential of key drug-based approaches, by helping countries to introduce, implement, and scale-up proven innovations to move countries forward in their elimination efforts, according to each country’s unique malaria situation.
Strengthening malaria health systems and the use of data for decision-making to link operational research and country-led dialogue with global technical leadership for the means of accelerating service delivery improvements and advancing key learnings.
The PMI Impact Malaria (IM) team is a results-focused, multi-disciplined and multi-cultured team, based out of Washington DC, working through PSI country offices as well as through our partners Jhpiego, MCDI and UCSF.
Population Services International (PSI), thanks to the PMI Impact Malaria (IM) project, seeks a dynamic candidate with an interest in routine health data monitoring systems and data visualization for the position of DHIS2 Specialist. The successful candidate will work closely with teams from two different global departments to provide technical support relating to DHIS2, PSI’s global information management system. The main focus will be supporting and maintaining complex configuration of program monitoring systems in DHIS2, troubleshooting, general system administration, analytics and dashboard development, as well as capacity building of DHIS2 Officers and Country System Admins across the PSI’s country offices.
Sounds interesting? Read on!
Your contribution
Provide DHIS2 system administration, maintenance and configuration support
Configuration of multi-country and complex program monitoring systems in DHIS2 meeting organizational standards, in both desktop and mobile DHIS2 (Data sets, Event and Tracker Programs, management of Users, User groups, Org Units and Org Units Groups, etc)
Create, maintain and support DHIS2 configurations across multiple countries and multiple health areas, including troubleshooting and technical assistance to Country System Admins and DHIS2 Officers
Importing / exporting data and metadata across PSI’s DHIS2 servers
Create and maintain data validation rules and other data quality checks to improve data quality
Provide technical assistance in DHIS2 analytics and dashboard development
Create, maintain and support DHIS2 analytics through Indicators, Program indicators, Predictors as well as visualizations and dashboards tailored to data-users’ needs
Provide technical assistance to strengthen use of DHIS2 visualizations and dashboards to support evidence-based decision-making through the DHIS2 Interpretations app and Data-to-Action approaches
Provide capacity building support in DHIS2
Train Country System Admins, DHIS2 Officers and other project staff to effectively interpret and manipulate DHIS2 dashboards and visualizations
Increase the capacity of Country System Administrators in DHIS2 maintenance and troubleshooting tasks
Troubleshoot DHIS2 configuration and maintenance through PSI’s DHIS2 Helpdesk
What are we looking for?
The basics
Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Informatics, or a related field
5+ years of experience in managing complex databases systems
Proven experience working with DHIS2 on system configuration and maintenance
Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages
You can construct (or you are excited to learn) SQL queries and managing databases
Excellent cross-cultural, interpersonal, written, and oral communications skills
Excellent organizational and multitasking capabilities
