Assistant Technical Officer - Health Informatics (HI) at Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi)

Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) is an indigenous non-governmental organization that promotes socio-economic development by supporting a broad range of global health interventions, education, and economic initiatives in Nigeria. AHNi is an organization with robust interest in advancing the collective goals of the people and communities served. AHNi currently has its headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria.

To strengthen our operations and interventions in the country, we are seeking qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Assistant Technical Officer - Health Informatics (HI)

Location: Borno
Department: ACE Cluster 1
Job Category: Fixed Term

Job Description

• Will support the development, implementation and supervision of all AHNi’s Electronic Information Systems at the State and facility levels.
• S/He will provide technical assistance for the design and content development for electronic information systems (LAMIS, DHIS, GIS and any other AHNi package or database tools) used for M&E operations.
• This function will include assisting the software programming team in developing actual logic statements for the coding of M&E indicators and software business rules where necessary and checking that all software development is done according to already established standards and procedures.
• Assist the software programming team in developing actual logic statements for the coding of M&E indicators and software business rules where necessary and checking that all software development is done according to already established standards and procedures.

Minimum Recruitment Standard

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science or other relevant field with 3-5 years’ experience in software development, DHIS 2 configuration. Deployment skills will be an added advantage.
• MB.BS/MPH/MSc or similar degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, General Statistics or Biostatistics, Health Informatics and/or Management with 1 to 2 years’ relevant experience in project-level or state/national-level monitoring and evaluation system implementation.
• Experience working at the national level on health programs with knowledge and experience in data collection and analysis.
• Familiarity with Nigerian public sector health systems such as NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable.

Application Closing Data
20th November, 2024.

Method of Application
Interested and Qualified candidates should forward a suitability statement (Application Letter) and Resume (CV) as a single MS Word document to: AHNi-M&[email protected] using the Job Title and Location as the subject of the email.

Note

• Only applications sent electronically (i.e., by e-mail) with the job title and location clearly indicated as the subject of the mail will be considered and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• AHNi is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Disclaimer: AHNi does not charge Candidates a fee for a test or interview.