Monitoring & Evaluation Officer (Data Quality)

**Main purpose of the job**:

- Coordinate and develop and implement procedures to enhance the accuracy and integrity of HIV and GBV prevention program data
- Perform data cleaning, collaborating with the data manager to enhance data collection and storage procedures, and prepare data for analysis and use

**Location**:

- **No 8 Blackwood, Parktown - Johannesburg**

**Key performance areas**:

- Contribute to the development of a data quality strategy that aligns with the Implementation Science’s goals and objectives
- Support the review/development of a quality management system, including supporting appropriate data analysis and reporting
- Set up and implement systems for monitoring compliance with data quality protocols
- Perform statistical tests on large datasets to determine data quality and integrity
- Assess system performance and design, as well as its effect on data quality
- Collaborate with Data Manager to improve the database, data collection, and storage processes
- Create data dictionaries that define data terminology used in different projects
- Design and implement strategies and processes to increase ownership of data and commitment to data quality and data use
- Keep abreast of developments and trends in data quality management
- Reviewing data sets to ensure that they are accurate and complete including data cleansing to ensure that there are no duplicates, and data is standardized
- Analyze data quality issues to determine their cause and impact on the organization and implement remedial actions
- Monitoring data quality to ensure that it remains consistent over time
- Run data queries to identify coding issues and data exceptions, as well as clean data
- Gathering data from primary or secondary data sources to identify and interpret trends
- Analyze data quality issues to inform training and prioritize information system needs
- Conduct data audits and routine data quality assessments in different project sites, following prescribed protocols and providing feedback, and supporting the implementation of remedial actions
- Support the timely development and submission of the funder and stakeholder reports
- Develop and implement regular supervisory reports for monitoring the data quality performance of teams and alert supervisors to suspicious data that should be followed up directly with health workers and their beneficiaries
- Conduct regular training of staff on data quality management including policies and protocols
- Provide ongoing support to district teams
- Promote harmony, teamwork, and sharing of information
- Take ownership and accountability for tasks and demonstrate effective self-management
- Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of own work are consistently and accurately maintained
- Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
- Take ownership of driving your own career development by participating in ongoing training and development activities such as forums, conferences, etc.

**Required minimum education and training**:

- **Degree/Honours Degree in relevant field**

**Required minimum work experience**:

- **Minimum 5 years of experience developing, implementing, and managing data quality management systems**:

- **Work on donor-driven programs in the South African context**:

- **Data quality capacity building and mentoring**:

- **Data analysis and report writing**:

- **Proficiency in MS Office, Data Quality Management Software, STATA, Information**:

- **Management System (DoH and other), SQL, Visualisation software (e.g., PowerBI)**

**Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities**:

- Research experience including clinical trials
- Knowledge of the Department of Health’s health information management system
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to navigate complicated situations
- Excellent written and verbal and communication skills. will be an advantage
- Self-motivated
- Strong attention to detail
- Able to meet deadlines
- Self-motivated and, able to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team

**TO APPLY**:

- Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
- _AJ Personnel is fully POPIA Compliant._
- Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.

**Please note**:

- **Our Client, WHC - RHI, maintains mandatory Covid-19 requirements, and as such only Covid-19 vaccinated incumbents will be considered for positions.**:

- WHC, in accordance with its Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.
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