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JOB DETAILS:

Full Time
Position Number: MUWRP/10/11/2022
Position Title: Data Officer – Prevention (1) Position
Position Location: Kayunga
Contract Tenure: 1 Year with a possibility of extension subject to availability of funding.

Position summary:
The Data Officer – Prevention main responsibility will be to support the HIV prevention, care and treatment program in all M&E related program activities with specific focus on data quality and use including; collection, summarizing, analysis, dissemination, storing and timely reporting of all data generated from the PEPFAR prevention Program. S/he will assess the current M&E systems, capacity of data staff and address the identified gaps through capacity building and technical support and conduct on site visits to provide technical support through coaching and mentorship for improved data collection, reporting and utilization and support understanding and compliance with M&E procedures.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Improve quality of routine and adhoc program data and/reports through data audits, data cleaning and verifications on weekly, monthly and quarterly basis and ensure routine analysis for high level indicators
• Establish report tracking systems to improve completeness and timeliness of reporting
• Plan with program teams, sub grantee data officers, DHT and program technical advisors to ensure that sub grantee and district performance review meetings are conducted monthly and quarterly focusing on prevention indicators.
• Conduct routine cleaning of various systems (KP tracker, OVC tracker, UDOTS, OVCMIS. PrEP) to ensure quality data and reports are generated, no backlogs exist and systems are used for program performance tracking and production of quality, reliable and accurate reports
• Work with the district Bio-statistician, CDOs , HMIS FP and Program data officer to forecast, quantify and distribute HMIS program and PEPFAR tools required to support data capture and reporting.
• Provide weekly analysis of surge indicators to the CBOs, sites and program teams to guide targeted community and facility level prevention interventions and monitor performance
• Weekly data reviews with sub grantee data teams to improve data collection and utilization of this site and other facilities on the mainland
• Build capacity of data teams supporting the OVC and prevention program in quality reporting for all indicators and data verification processes.

Required Education and Knowledge and experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, Quantitative Methods, Demography, Population Studies or any other relevant discipline from a recognized University. Additional training in Project Monitoring & Evaluation is required.
• A minimum of three years related experience, proven track record in M&E/ PEPFAR data management and reporting.

Additional skills
• Strong skills in data analysis and vast experience in working with information systems promoted by the ministry of Health and PEPFAR e.g. DHIS2
• Strong skills in using GIS tools for data analysis and mapping
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently to achieve set goals.
• Ability to meet very tight deadlines.

Supervisory Controls: The job holder will serve under the supervision of Program Officer M&E
Physical Ability:
• Ability to permanently reside in Kayunga
• Ability to frequently travel to the MUWRP PEPFAR supported sites in Kayunga, Mukono, Buikwe and Buvuma Islands.

JOB DETAILS:

Contract
Position Number: MUWRP/03/11/2022
Position Title: Data Entry Specialist (4) Positions
Position Location: Mukono General Hospital.
Contract Tenure: 6 months with a possibility of extension subject to availability of funding.


Position summary:
Under the supervision of the Senior Data Manager, the incumbent’s primary responsibility will be to receive and handle data, process and send to the respective collaborating projects as well as data archiving.


Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for verification, coding, cleaning and filing of study documents
• Responsible for data entry work of the questionnaire respondent codes.
• Organization of entered questionnaires according to clusters and visits
• Safe custody and retrieval of entered questionnaires.
• Identifying and reporting errors to responsible Study personnel.
• Participate in Filling and archiving of documents
• Perform any other relevant duties as might be assigned by the Supervisor.

Required Education and Knowledge and experience:
• At least a Degree in Computer Science or Statistics.
• A minimum of 2years relevant experience.
• Data entry in a Clinical /biomedical research environment is an added advantage.
• Fluency in verbal and written English
• Highly organized and sensitive to detail
• Quick at learning and adopting to research setting environment
• Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision
• Personal integrity, liable and dependable

Supervisory controls: The candidate will report directly to the Senior Data Manager
Physical Ability: Ability to professionally communicate in writing and verbally or other means deemed appropriate. The ability to frequently travel between MUWRP sites in Uganda.

JOB DETAILS:
Job Summary: The ICT Security Administrator will coordinate and monitor the data security of the Hospital’s Information Systems, compliance with standard ICT security practices, providing consultation and creating a general awareness on the ICT security to all staff.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• The security administrator will ensure the network’s security, protect against unauthorized access, modification, or destruction, and troubleshoot any access problems.
• Develop and support organizational security standards, best practices, preventative measures, and disaster recovery plans.
• Identify and report on both application and infrastructure security breaches.
• Ensures vulnerability scans are run on an established schedule. Implements software patches and security fixes.
• Develops and maintains system documentation of environment and application configuration
• Providing technical support to end users including security related organizational policies
• Develop, manage and implement the data privacy monitoring plan including regular assessments to ensure compliance to with the Uganda Data Protection & Privacy Act
• Maintain records of all data processing activities conducted by the hospital
• Conduct staff training and awareness sessions in data protection and privacy
• Serve as the point of contact between the person, institution or public body, and the Personal Data Protection Office
• Perform any other duties incidental to the above as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
• Minimum of a Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related course from a recognised Institution.
• Relevant Professional Security Certifications an added advantage.
• Experience with Firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, Wireless security, Encryption, Data security, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft 365 Cloud Solutions, VMware, Cisco switching and PowerShell scripting.
• Experience with network troubleshooting tools and techniques.
• Experience with Linux operating systems.
• Technical expertise and experience with the ability to develop a security plan, coordinate and implement it, and monitor the IT environment
• An understanding of regulatory standards and how to ensure the business achieves compliance