New Job Opportunity Dodoma at JHPIEGO Tanzania – Business Analyst
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Overview
Jhpiego is an international non-profit health
organization affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University. For more than
46 years now, Jhpiego has empowered front-line health workers by
designing and implementing effective, iow-cost, hands-on solutions to
strengthen the delivery of health care services for women and their
families.
By putting evidence-based health innovations into everyday
practice, Jhpiego works to break down barriers to high-quality health
care for the world’s most vulnerable populations.
Jhpiego,
implementing a number of projects in Tanzania, wishes to recruit the
following positions below, available for immediate filling…
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Location TZ-Dodoma
Posted Date (2/1/2021 10:25 PM)
Job ID 2021-4130
Category International Positions
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Overview
Jhpiego seeks a Business Analyst to provide
technical assistance and programmatic support for an upcoming CDC
opportunity entitled “Strengthening the Government of Tanzania’s
Capacity to Develop, Implement and Use Digital Health to Achieve HIV/TB
Epidemic Control through Interoperable Information Systems, Governance,
Quality Improvement and Workforce Support under PEPFAR.” The project
aims to build affordable, effective client level and aggregate HIS, the
digital infrastructure to exchange data among diverse health related
HIS, and a data and technology competent workforce using a technical
assistance model. These HIS and data use activities will ensure that
health services are digitally linked to community, facility, laboratory,
reporting, surveillance, commodity/supply chain, mortality and other
health related systems with a goal to maximize efforts to achieve and
sustain epidemic control. The successful applicant will be expected to
partner with the GoT to plan, design or adapt, develop, implement,
evaluate and use secure, standards based interoperable HIS for client
care and program improvement.
The Business Analyst will provide
technical assistance and programmatic support, at national, provincial,
and district levels. The project will operate over a five-year period.
The position will operate under the leadership of the Principal
Investigator/Project Director, and will ensure the technical and
methodological soundness of project activities. In collaboration with
project team and partners, the position will support the design and
implementation of project strategies based on scientific evidence.
This position is contingent upon award from CDC. Tanzanian nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Responsibilities
- Provide
technical assistance to the strategic direction and definition of
appropriate project activities in close collaboration with the Principal
Investigator/Project Director and technical teams - Ensure
interventions supported by strategic technical assistance are evidence-
and best-practice-based and aligned with project, MOH, CDC, and PEPFAR
goals and technical priorities - Conduct user research, draft user stories, and meet with product owners to validate and enhance them
- Collaborate with Visual/UI designer and add/update stories based on user response.
- Create wireframes for the user stories and review them with users and gather feedback
- Document workflows and processes based on requirements
- Document requirements and provide final technical review and validation of requirements
- Document
successes, lessons learned and challenges in implementation as well as
reports of project activities and results, and other reporting
requirements as requested - Coordinate, facilitate, and lead
meetings to determine needs of customers, as well as determine the
impact of system changes or changes to program implementation. - Work with stakeholders and the project team to prioritize collected requirements
- Provide capacity building support through training and demonstrations as required
- Oversee
requirements tracking process, assign requirements to the appropriate
service provider, and communicate status to customers - Support the collection and reporting of requirements related metrics
- Verify completion of requirements with customer and service providers, ensuring expectations are appropriately met
- Ensure
user stories include validation criteria which reasonably covers all
areas necessary for complete testing of the new functionality - Provide additional support and guidance to clients during the implementation phase to include development of training resources
- Proactively
contribute to the quality of the product by seeking and proposing new
or alternate approaches to address the requirements - Research,
review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing
requirements gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or
further leveraging these processes - Maintain excellent relationships with CDC and in-country stakeholders
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Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s
Degree in public health, health information systems, laboratory
science, computer science, or other related technical discipline - At
least 3 years’ experience in implementing and/or providing technical
assistance to donor-funded projects and in the design and implementation
of overseas health projects; preferably for HIS or Digital
Health-related projects, and in Tanzania - 5+ years of relevant applications/systems requirements and modeling experience
- 3+
years of experience on the technical aspects of applications
development projects through the full system development life cycle - Experience in modern requirement gathering techniques, including creation of user stories, epics, and themes
- Experience with agile, iterative cycles (sprints)
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), Microsoft Project and SharePoint
- Proficient in Dev/Ops tools especially JIRA
- Experience
implementing and/or providing technical assistance in facilitating HIS
skills transfer and capacity building of the MOH and local
institutions/stakeholders; experience developing and maintaining HIS
systems, including the scale-up of an electronic health record (EHR)
system to all provinces in its full deployment package; continued
maintenance of the MOH’s national data warehouse (NDW), systems
interoperability, and health information exchange (HIE); and advancing
the production and timely utilization of information in response to
national HIV/TB priorities - Demonstrated experience training
government and provincial-level healthcare workers on HIS support and
systems development, deployment, and maintenance - Demonstrated experience providing capacity building assistance
- Skilled
in at least two or more of the following technical areas: health
information systems, data management and analytics, software
development, health workforce development, and HIS governance - Demonstrated
in-depth understanding of the Tanzanian healthcare system, particularly
the public health system, experience living and working in Tanzania
preferred - Familiarity with CDC/PEPFAR’s administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems desired
- Excellent
diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain
interpersonal and professional relationships with CDC, host-country
counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as
NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector - Expertise in research to practice—identifying and adapting best practices to specific project contexts
- Excellent verbal, written interpersonal and presentation skills in English and Swahili
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Ability to travel nationally to project sites 30% of time
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Human Centered Design approach for developing digital and health information systems services
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work in a team environment and have sound judgment.
- Attention
to detail, quick learner, have a positive attitude, ability to
multi-task, self-motivated and able to work in a fast-paced environment - Knowledge
of methodology and subject matter related concepts, practices,
standards and procedures with a general knowledge of other related
business disciplines - Able to work closely with all project
stakeholders such as business users, project managers, and business
analysts while delivering solutions - Works with limited supervision
Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee
benefits package including: medical and dental plans; paid vacation,
holidays and sick leave; personal accident insurance; 403(b) retirement
plan; life and disability insurance; travel insurance; education
assistance plan and more.
Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.
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