NGO IT Jobs – Senior Management Information Systems Advisor at Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

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Organization: Management
Sciences for Health (MSH)
Duty Station: Kampala or
Nairobi
About MSH:
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is a nonprofit international
health organization with over four decades of experience in strengthening
health systems, and capacity of local institutions. MSH takes a comprehensive
approach to improving health to achieve scalability, lasting impact, and
sustainability. Our mission is to save lives and improve the health of the
world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge
and action in public health. For more information please visit our website www.msh.org.
Job Summary: The Senior MIS
Advisor oversees MIS activities that contribute to medicines supply management.
He/she leads the cross-functional product development team in the evolution and
delivery of CPM’s portfolio of pharmaceutical management solutions. The Senior
MIS Advisor is responsible for all aspects of product definition, including
internal product development, stakeholder management, as well as the
client-facing definition and presentation of the solutions. He/ she will
supervise and provide technical support to members of their cluster, the
coordination of data collection activities in support of operational research,
sector assessments and evaluations, organization of national and provincial
workshops and trainings. The individual will play a lead role in evaluating
systems and identifying gaps in functionality.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
  • The candidate should possess a Masters
    Degree in Masters Degree in Computer Science or a technical related field
    or the equivalent with seven (7) plus years experience in providing
    technical assistance in promoting national and provincial levels technical
    competency in pharmaceutical management information systems.
  • He/she needs to have five (5) plus years
    experience with computerized system development, implementation &
    capacity building and two (2) plus years of overseeing entire product
    development and implementation of systems.
  • The candidate needs to have knowledge of data warehousing, Business Intelligence and data
    visualization considerations, monitoring and evaluation, data analysis
    (both qualitative and quantitative).S/he should have strong experience in
    providing training ,setting up training programs and workshops.
  • The successful candidate needs to be a
    strong team player with excellent interpersonal, facilitation,
    relationship-building, negotiating and influencing skills.
  • S/he should work with minimal supervision
    under tight timelines and be able to support cross technical teams and be
    available to travel internationally.
  • The ability to speak French, Portuguese,
    Spanish will be an added advantage.
NB: Management Sciences for
Health is an equal Opportunity employer offering employment without regard to
race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin,
citizenship, physical or mental handicap, or status as a disabled or Vietnam
Era veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates should visit MSH website Job number
13-6899 at https://jobs-mshicims.com. If you cannot apply online or have
difficulty doing so, please email an explanation of your problem to
iRecruiterproblem@msh.org only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Please note that any form of canvassing by candidates will lead to
immediate disqualification.
Deadline: 20th
September, 2013
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