Job Title: Health Information System Officer (Fresher NGO Jobs)
Organisation: Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation -Uganda (Baylor-Uganda)
Duty Station: Mbale, Uganda
About the Company:
Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation -Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) is an indigenous not-for-profit child health and development organisation affiliated to the Baylor College of Medicine International Paediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI), a Network of paediatric HIV/AIDS care and treatment Children’s Clinical Centres of Excellence and international program offices in 11 countries across Africa and Eastern Europe.
Job Summary: The job holder will be responsible for the development of the project Health Information Systems and ensuring it is running smoothly. Supporting the cluster offices in maintaining e-Health systems across all Baylor Foundation Uganda supported sites.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build the capacity of project teams and health workers in the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technologies for data capture and spatial technologies for spatial data capture and analysis to guide programming for geographical areas with the highest-burden.
- Work with the M&E team to conduct quality checks on the system to ensure the systems are functioning as intended, and program needs are being met.
- Liaising with technology partners to ensure program requirements are translated into useful tools.
- Supporting the M&E team and the facility MRAs in troubleshooting system challenges and IT-related challenges.
- Carry out point of care installations for all facilities/sites supported by Baylor Uganda.
- Support the cluster team in troubleshooting software and hardware challenges at their cluster offices.
- Liaise with the main IT office to strengthen the network, communications and other IT services provision at cluster offices like email, CUG, IT security, HRIS, procurement systems, finance systems.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Degree in Computer Science or related course.
- 2 years of Experience in supporting eHealth systems.
How to Apply:
All interested candidates should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 26th May 2025
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