Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, June 09, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The COVID-19 SI Officer will provide technical assistance and support to in all aspects of COVID19 strategic information, including monitoring and evaluation (M&E), information systems development and maintenance, management of time-bound M&E personnel, and surveillance across all Regions.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
• Coordinate and facilitate timely data entry for all regions in the Chanjo Covid government database and Internal THPS Analytics System (TAS) database. Work with organize stakeholder's
• meetings and joint supportive supervision.
• Work with the Regional M&E Managers, Data Manager and regional technical team to ensure all
• the teams involved in data collections and entries received key orientation and other necessary
• capacity building to make sure there is accuracy of reported data
• Work with Health Care Workers at the facility to make sure COVID-19 register fields are filled
• properly and together develop structured data filling workflow at each health facility.
• Assist Data officers to ensure that COVID-19 registers are well documented and neatly kept and
• easily accessible when needed
• Lead development and operationalization of the COVID-19 M&E strategy, including the
• confirmation of monitoring indicators and disaggregation components; development and management of the M&E workplan(s); and recording and reporting of COVID-19 data in narrative
• reports and electronic information systems.
• He/she reviews completeness on paper-based tools and compare with electronic data entries with
• source documents on a regular basis to verify accuracy of data and make corrections as needed.
• He/she fix any errors and problems observed in the database, and report any hardware/software
• malfunctions to district data manager as needed.
• He/she is responsible to develop all weekly, monthly, quarterly, and other reports on all indicators
• for submission and review to regional level and entries to the central level systems.
• Provide technical assistance and support to national and sub-national partners in all relevant
• aspects of COVID-19 monitoring and evaluation, continual quality improvement, and data analysis,
• visualization and use.
• Collaborate closely with other regional Si team members to facilitate joint implementation, sharing
• of information, and problem solving in areas where COVID-19 interventions overlap with HIV and
• TB programming
• Ensure high quality, timely reporting of COVID-19 results to Government, donor agencies and
• THPS, as per the requirements of each COVID-19 project.
• Recruit and/or manage COVID-19 M&E consultants at national or sub-national levels.
• Ensure that implementation of COVID-19 M&E field activities adheres to THPS/MOH/IVD COVID-19
• monitoring and evaluation strategies and plans.
• Participate actively in program planning and review processes.
• He/she conducts data analysis presentations and progress tracking at district level in collaboration
• with the District Data manager and Regional si leaders.
• He/she work with DDM to conduct data verification on monthly basis and data quality assessment
• on quarterly basis at his/her district level.
• He/she ensures timely data entry and reporting on time for their regions, tracking referral forms
• and verify with registers at facilities is another role covered by SIOS.
• He/she also participate in generation of queries and data cleaning.
• Assist the COVID-19 Program Epidemic control officer in preparing and submitting donor reports
• and other relevant materials (e.g. data briefs), as per the requirements of each COVID-19 project.
• Representing THPS in the national M&E technical working groups meetings
• Perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:
• Minimum of three years professional experience in M&E positions, with responsibility for
• developing and implementing M&E activities for international development initiatives.
• Bachelor or Master's degree in public health, statistics, demographics, public policy, international
• development, economics, or related field. Master's degree or advanced certificate in M&E,
• statistics, or economics preferred.
• Proven success in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems across the project
• lifespan (e.g. initiation to closeout), preferably in health.
• Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies (e.g., qualitative, quantitative, mixed method,
• Experience in planning and managing surveys; developing and refining data collection tools; conducting data quality assessments and oversight; and managing and providing ongoing capacity development to M&E field officers.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Interested applicants should send their application cover letter one page maximum and CV four pages maximum to ( recruitment@thps.or.tz  ) by June 17, 2022 with a position tittle as a subject line, for example "Health Promotion Officer. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. Please do not attach any certificates when submitting online.

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