Position: Health Management Information System Advisor, Primary Health
Care Project (PHCPI)
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Project/Proposal Summary:
The Iraqi Ministry of Health is currently engaged to move forward with stabilizing and reorganizing its health services. Ensuring access to routine, high quality and equitable healthcare has emerged as a critical need and the Government of Iraq is committed to improving the quality of primary healthcare (PHC) services. To assist with these efforts, USAID’s Primary Health Care Project Iraq (PHCPI) has been designed to support the Iraqi Ministry of Health (MoH) to achieve its strategic goal through putting in place key building blocks to support the delivery of quality PHC services at the community and facility levels. Within this framework, PHCPI includes three components: 1) Strengthening Supportive Management Systems and Processes, 2) Strengthening Quality Clinical Care, and 3) Building Community Partnerships for PHC. These components, separately and together, will assist the Government to implement quality care for its population and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of PHC services. The Community Partnership component focuses on: 1) patient rights; 2) establishing effective behavioral change strategies with clients that foster healthy life style practices; and 3) developing and working with civil societies and other community groups to effectively link with PHCs. The PHCPI is 4 years project.
Position Description: MSI is recruiting for a Health management Information System Advisor for the PHCPI project based in Iraq. The primary responsibilities are aimed at providing technical input and oversight to the integration and use of data management information systems. Key to success will be building the capacity among information systems users at the national, provincial and district levels of government as well as medical personnel at PHC Clinics in Iraq. The Health management Information System Advisor is long term assignment (1 year) that is slated to start as soon as possible.
Responsibilities:
• Provide HMIS technical assistance in primary health systems requirements, analysis, design, specifications, supervision of development, piloting/testing, implementation and evaluation.
• Provide expertise in data warehouse design and integration of primary health care and general health data sets, including efficient inventory management system for primary health care.
• Evaluate and recommend selection and procurement of hardware and software in consultation with the, and provincial and district-level governmental entities in coordination with other project advisors, such as the ICT Systems/Networking Specialist, Health Commodities Specialist, Procurement officer, etc.
• Supervise regional project ICT/HMIS Specialists to ensure high quality work plan implementation.
• Ensure a high level of communication and close working relationships with the project team, project implementers, and other key stakeholders operating in the primary health care IT arena.
• Travel to the field to provide management oversight, capacity building and training, and ongoing technical assistance.
• Perform other duties as the assignments evolve with the changing conditions.
Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in Health Information, IT management, Knowledge Management, or extensive experience in HMIS.
• Ten years of experience in health information management on similar projects, international work experience required.
• Fluency in English and knowledge of Arabic are required.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
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