Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, August 20 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau (UPMB), a leading Christian organization coordinating over 320 Member Health facilities all over Uganda is implementing several projects.
UPMB is an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis. We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact. We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.
UPMB together with Health Hearts Africa are implementing a two-year project intended to improving Access to Comprehensive Integrated Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease Services including Prevention, Linkages and Care in Uganda by 2026.
For successful implementation of this project, UPMB is inviting applications from suitably qualified individual to work as part of a professional and self-driven team for the position, to be based in Kampala respectively with routine travels upcountry as follows;

Key Responsibilities:
• Coordinate with Project M&E Officers/specialists to implement robust M&E systems, identify and monitor key program activities to document results and attribution.
• Collection, and reporting of district data to inform programing at district facility level.
• Conduct data verification and support quality control & improvement activities among UPMB health facilities to ensure quality DHIS2, PIRS(includes PIRS-DHIS2 synchronization), and other data is collected
• Conduct routine facility-based data quality assessments
• Implement M&E activities at facility level in line with set standards as guided by M&E Officers/
• Specialist.
• Support facilities to aggregate surge and COT data on a weekly basis
• Provide guidance and support to data clerks (at Health facilities) to ensure they are equipped to support the health facilities of allocation.
• Track monitoring indicators of all health component activities and periodically provide data to the project team.
• Establish and maintain a system to track availability of HMIS tools, patient files, and logistics for proper storage of patient records
• Ensure patient registers at health facilities are updated in time for HMIS reporting
• Provide M&E technical guidance to health facility teams on M&E aspects relating to project program areas
• Work with M&E Officer for community to strengthen community M&E systems (includes LQAS) in the district through ensuring availability of data collection tools, equipping district community teams with data collection skills and reporting in time to submit in DHIS2
• Support the District HMIS teams to ensure that relevant HMIS reports, HRIS reports (aggregated data) are entered into the DHIS2 &HRIS (pre-designed electronic system by MoH
• Participate in facility Continuous Quality Improvement project
• Surge reporting, APN and Non suppressor.

Qualifications
• Degree in M&E/ Statistics/Degree/Medical records/data management/Public Health with a bias in M&E or a related qualification in a related field
• At least four (4) years of experience in M&E programs for large NGOs or large Health facilities with good working knowledge of the Uganda national HMIS.

Required attributes
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills
• Ability to work closely in a team environment
• Adaptable and able to work in stressful conditions
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated but with the ability to make good use of the experience and efforts of others
• Fully computer literate with working knowledge of database and spreadsheet applications
• The job will require a lot of travel; evening and weekend hours may be required from time to time.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 48

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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