Lead/Senior Technical Advisor

20 Sep 2021 Lead/Senior Technical Advisor – Data Use at JSI

• Responsible for designing and implementing the Activity’s data use technical strategy and interventions. • Provide technical leadership and guidance for the field data use team in the implementation of sub-national level data quality and information use improvement interventions. • Use innovative to catalyze improved data consumption at all levels of the health system and for a range of health system strengthening interventions. • Collaborate with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) to improve the capture, quality, visualization, use of data collected through routine HIS, surveillance, survey, and other sources. • Support routine and ad hoc data analytics requests to support the FMOH, Pharmaceutical Fund and Supply Agency (PFSA), Ethiopian Public Health Institute, and Ethiopia Food and Drug Agency (EPSA) planning, performance management, and improved service delivery. • Strengthen monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems at national and sub-national levels. • Lead development of training materials and its delivery to improve the culture of information use at different levels in the health system. • Regularly review mentorship guidelines and checklists, analyze the data collected during DHA mentorship visits and provide feedback for the field team. • Compile RDQA reports and generate national level synthesized report every quarter. • Build the capacity of health science colleges, universities and partners in data use. • Build capacity of the data use team at national level through training and mentorship. • Actively participate in relevant Technical Working Groups (TWGs) formed by FMoH to improve the management of national health management information system and the data quality assurance activities. • Write the data use section of regular and ad hoc DHA reports to USAID and the government. • Supervising and guiding a team of technical staff supporting data use at national level. • Responsible for enforcing JSI’s Accountability Framework and Code of Conduct, and adhering to JSI’s polices on fraud management.