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Overview
- The Senior Data Analytics and Strategic Information Officer is responsible for leading the transformation of raw programmatic data into actionable insights to guide high-level decision-making for the JHPIEGO Nigeria Country Office. The Officer will be the technical lead for complex data analysis, visualization, and reporting, ensuring data integrity across all projects to meet the rigorous demands of the Strategic Information framework.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex data cleaning, manipulation, and analysis using advanced features of Microsoft Excel, statistical software, and specialized tools.
- Design, develop, and maintain high-impact, interactive data visualizations and dashboards using Power BI and/or Tableau to provide real-time, comprehensive programmatic updates to stakeholders.
- Integrate geographic information system (GIS) data and tools to map program coverage, analyse spatial relationships between service delivery and outcomes, and visualize impact across different demographics.
- Collect, collate, and analyse all program-tracked data, ensuring routine and project-level updates are provided accurately and promptly.
- Oversee and manage data entry and system compliance for project-specific platforms, including DHIS2 and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems.
- Develop and execute advanced data quality validation and auditing protocols across all projects, providing regular, constructive feedback to country office, states and HF teams to verify, edit, and improve data quality.
- Lead the analytics portion of program reports, annual work plans, project monitoring matrices, program assessments, and evaluations, ensuring all documented lessons learned are data-driven.
- Train and build the capacity of project staff and partners on advanced data management, DHIS2, Power BI, and data quality standards.
- Work closely with the Director of Strategic Information (DSI) to identify and propose high-impact strategies based on data analysis to increase data use and demand among program staff.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in public health, Medical Sciences, Social Sciences, Demography, Statistics, or related field.
- At least five (5) years’ post-NYSC professional experience in the implementation and management of health Strategic Information systems.
- Familiarity with USG programs, the Nigerian public sector health system and MNCH+N and quality Improvement (QI) programs.
- Core MEL experience with good understanding of MNCH+N indicators, data collection, analysis and data visualization using various innovative data management systems.
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (including Microsoft Excel) and related applications.
- High-level data reporting and analysis skills using DHIS2, SPSS and/or STATA, PowerBI
- Attention to detail and accuracy in basic data management, analysis and reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to train and build the capacity of health facility staff on NHMIS tools.
- Cooperative, competent, hardworking, flexible and dependable in a multi-cultural, open office situation;
- Self-motivated and proactive with a positive attitude to work;
- Ability to organize and coordinate information and logistics for programs and activities.
- Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.
Method of Application
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