Strategic Health Information Officer

1 month ago

Pretoria, South Africa WHO Full time

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

Under the overall guidance of the WHO Representative, and inclose coordination with the technical team in the regional office, theincumbent will be responsible for the following:1.Supports the development of required capacities togenerate needed data and statistics. This involves strengthening of systems forroutine health facility data collection, birth death and cause of death,surveillance data, facility and community-based surveys including demographicand health surveys. It also involves the development of norms and standards,regular country capacity assessments to identify gaps and provision of supportto address these gaps, and regularly provide status updates through scorecards,statistics atlas and other methods to consolidate the country work with technical experts on analysis of existingdata and statistics to discern trends and patterns, plus build attribution andprediction models for the direction of health in the country. These analyticsare at facility, sub national, and national levels. The emerging information shall beconsolidated in periodic publications that will need to be produced, such asstate of health in the country or for specific program analyses. In addition,the he/she will support sector monitoring and evaluation processes in thecountry and support multisectoral orientation of strategic information forpolicy and the generation of evidence to guide decisionmakers, through development of health policy briefs, documentation of good /best practices, writing health blogs on key events, and other methods forevidence the timely and high-quality collection, analyses,production, and dissemination of data/information. This includes responsespecific information (who, what, where, how many, how quickly, current status),internal and external situation reports (SitReps), surveillance bulletins,rapid needs assessments, health risk assessments, and the Public HealthSituation Analysis; and health inputs into strategic response plans (SRP).5.Contribute information to the drafting of all relevantplanning documents including project proposals, appeals, reports, dashboards, basic geographic analysis for maps and otherreports (such as dashboards, Sitreps, etc.).7.Aggregate and maintain country information from WHO andpartners including contact lists, performance monitoring, health indicatordata, health situation data, health response ongoing technical guidance and training, to theteam members, department of health, partners involved in the planning anddata/information management process; on data gathering and analysis, qualityassurance, performance monitoring, information dissemination and the generation of research agendas and coordinationof health research in the provinces and the country at large. This shall bethrough collaboration with the African Advisory Committee on Health Researchand Development, plus other research associations / consortia that WHO is the country in carrying out of strategic nationalhealth surveys across the different clusters through in planning, resourcemobilization and in the generation of policy and advocacy briefs from thesesurveys to improve the health system and wellbeing of the the work on innovative approaches to ensuringstrategic health information is available in country, sourced from healthobservatories in the sub-region, and harmonizing the work on digital monitoring and evaluation of the national healthinformation system mechanism for purposes of improvement and revision of strengthening of governance of healthinformation systems, particularly in assessing state of health informationsystems, and supporting initiatives to address gaps in the capacity togenerate, analyse and use of health information for decision making;establishment and supporting data collaborates for better use of existinghealth information resources' and mobilizing resources for health the generation of institutional data, analyticaland knowledge products relating to the work of WHO and partners in countriessuch as SDG monitoring, Global Action Plan status, and performance on the WHOGlobal Program of Work impact framework within the all other related tasks as assigned by thesupervisor.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential : A university degreein a health-related field, which includes training in biostatistics, demographyand/or epidemiology. Postgraduate degree/qualifications in a public health fieldor in health statistics and information systems.
Desirable : Trainingor specialization in Monitoring & Evaluation systems, preferably as relatedto health. Training in health informatics.

Experience

Essential : At least five (05) years of practical experience working ingenerating and using strategic health information, specifically in generatinghealth data / statistics, analysis of data including conducting of sector wideMonitoring and Evaluations, development of knowledge products such as healthpolicy briefs. Proven ability to document strategic health information such asthrough production of country statistical abstracts, sector review reports,health policy briefs, best practice documentations, and others.
Desirable : Experience in generating and using strategic healthinformation. Experience in policy formulation and quality management, strategicand policy planning and policy as well as facilitating consultations.

Skills

•Proven ability to identify and apply modern ICTmethodologies to health information systems and to the use of variousmechanisms including for health observatories and scorecards for theimplementation of best practices in the region. •Proven track record in the implementation of internationalnorms and standards on information systems with effective reporting systems. •Excellent communication and presentation skills withability to write clear and concise documents and give technical advice andguidance in resource-limited contexts. •Participate in resource mobilization and advocacy activities. •Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to promoteconsensus, communicate progress and results, and resolve issues in a proactivemanner, while ensuring effective work practices and ethics. •Diplomacy, tact and courtesy.

WHO Competencies

Teamwork
Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
Communication
Producing results
Building and promoting partnerships across the organization and beyond

Use of Language Skills

Essential : Expert knowledge of English.
Desirable :

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