Health Information System Assistant

Job Description

The Organization
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.  

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
•   No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday 
•   All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
•   Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued. 
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Save the Children International seeks to always be a child safe organization through fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and to improve the living standards of the child.
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Position: Health Information System Assistant
Location: Hodiedah
Grade: 5
Contract Length: 6 months

The Opportunity:

Assist the HIS officer to ensure that all health and nutrition information is organized and kept in proper way, help in keeping all health and nutrition data on the HMIS database with full coordination with Program coordinators and Managers. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

Key Areas of Responsibilities: 
•   Assist in the training for the new staff in health and nutrition information system formats and make sure that all concern people at health facility level is understand the reporting system.
•    Enter weekly and monthly report into health and nutrition data base after he/she receive it from health and nutrition Officer. And ensure that all information entered is correct and valid.
•   Analyse health and nutrition information data per each program and illustrates the achievement for each month and quarter and presented in monthly program meeting 
•   Feedback the nutrition officers about the common mistakes in the reports to be corrected and return back.
•   Do the report regularly health and nutrition data for program coordinator and program manager.
•   Do analyze for the data and make report against the indicators of the program to see the level of the achievement.
•   Working effectively as team member with the field team to improve the quality of the health and nutrition data.
•   File all checked and received hard copies of reporting format in to archive
•   Save the data entries regularly as well as the statistical results.
•   Keep files by month/year stored into the computer with clear segregation (draft version, final versions)
•   Take up any job-related assignment as required by supervisor.
•   To conduct monthly meetings with community health volunteers to discuss all related issues and to put plan for the coming period.
•   To take any other relevant task given by the supervisor.    
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
•   Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
•   Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
•   Creates a managerial environment to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding.
Ambition:
•   Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
•   Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale
Collaboration:
•   Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
•   Works collaboratively to achieve shared goals and thrives on diversity of people and perspectives; knows when to lead and when to follow and how to ensure effective cross-boundary working.
•   Communicates clearly and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes dialogue and ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence and trust. 
•   Invests time and energy to actively develop self and others to help realise their full potential, and to build the organisation’s capability for the future. 
Creativity:
•   Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest standards; promotes and shares best practice within and outside the organization. 
•   Develops and implements innovative solutions to adapt and succeed in ever-changing and uncertain global and working environments. 
•   Takes effective, considered and timely decisions by gathering and evaluating relevant information from within or outside the organization. 
Integrity:
•   Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence.
•   Displays consistent excellent judgement.

Qualifications and Experience:

•   Bachelor or diploma in Statistics/nursing or public health

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
•   Experience in information system management particularly health and nutrition more than 2 years
•   Experience in Nutrition information system management 
•   Knowledge of spread sheets (Excel)
•   Good in English and fluent in Arabic.
Excellent writing and communication skills

Application Information:
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.  A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers/apply

The Organization
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
· No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
· All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
· Violence against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Application Information:
Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/jobs We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.