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• Work closely with district teams led by
  the district Biostatisticians in training and mentorship of facility
  M&E staff.
• Work with Consortium partners and district
  teams to quantify and ensure availability of all necessary HMIS tools at
  the PNFP supported facilities.
• Mentor and coach Facility teams & as
  well community partners on appropriate use of HMIS data collection tools
  for data recording.
• Mentor facility records assistants and
  data volunteers on use of MoH recommended electronic patient monitoring
  systems (DHIS2, OpenMRS conjointly with WAOS and TWOS) for data management
  and data aggregation to enhance timely reporting.
• Support facilities to ensure completeness
  of entries into the openMRS, data cleaning and reporting.
• Support facilities to ensure timely and
  accurate completion and submission of HMIS reports and other required
  reports to the district biostatisticians in the 12 districts of Masaka
  Region.
• Train and mentor lower level facility
  staffs in computer packages that enhance program implementation and
  reporting.
• Support the PNFP facilities in the region
  to conduct regular data quality assessment as per MoH DQA guidelines on
  data collected at health facilities and ensure regular feedback is given
  to ensure continuous improvement.
• Mentor and coach facility staffs to
  summarize data collected, analyzed, displayed and used for decision making
  at the facility level.
• Perform monthly basic analysis on data
  from HMIS data to inform UEC-UCMB Regional Project on the progress of
  activity implementation and/or change strategies to improve performance.
• Prepare generate narrative and
  quantitative reports for submission to the Prime Partner.
• Effectively participate in conjunction
  with consortium district based partners dissemination meetings by ensuring
  availability of relevant data and documentation as a contribution from the
  PNFP subsector.

• The ideal candidate must hold a Bachelor’s
  degree in Biostatistics/Statistics or its equivalent
• At least two years’ experience in Health
  Information Systems (HMIS, DHIS & OpenMRS)
• Knowledge of common Statistical analysis
  and database management packages Ms Access, Ms Excel, STATA, SPSS, EPiDATA
• Knowledge of MER 2.1 PEPFAR indicators
• Ability to monitor Data collection and
  data entry into management systems and write good project reports and
  plans.
• Strong IT skills (generic applications,
  internal communications systems, and software packages to support M&E
  management)
• Extensive knowledge of error resolution in
  data entry
• Good mentoring and coaching skills

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