Recruitment for Data Scientist

Partners in Health Care is a leading healthcare organization committed to providing high-quality medical services, innovative healthcare solutions, and patient-centric care throughout Nigeria. Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of Nigerians by delivering accessible, affordable, and top-tier healthcare services.

All PiHC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organization’s core values:

Quality Care, Compassion and Collaboration. These attitudes and believes guides our actions and relationships.

Generic responsibilities

• Ensure adherence with PIHC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines

• Implement delegated responsibilities according to plan of action
• Defining, coordinating, and monitoring all data related activities including data collection, analysis, reporting, monitoring and evaluation processes according to PiHC protocols, standards and procedures in order to ensure quality medical care for patients and their communities and to improve the health condition of the population
• Develop a comprehensive implementation strategy tailored to Nigeria’s context.
• Ensure Smooth day to day running of the department
• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the laboratory function

Specific responsibilities

• High level representation of PiHC interests in external meetings and planning efforts nationally. 
• Monitor performance Indicators and advise program team accordingly.
• Manages the PiHC team and PiHC operations and provides strategic oversight of operations.
• Participate in designing, reviewing, and adapting data management (DM) tools according to PiHC protocol, and ensure that all the deployed DM tools at the site are up to date.
• Providing technical support to the field workers in the implementation of routine data collection at Field locations, and ensure strict adherence to the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Support in participant follow-up schedules. Support the site field team in the identification and resolution of challenges encountered during data collection.
• Developing and implementing data quality assurance methods to ensure accuracy and reliability of the information, respect, and confidentiality all participant information and good clinical practice.
• Managing and supervising the work of the field team for quality assurance Also, monitoring the fieldworker activities by conducting data quality checks of study participants.
• Identification of training needs and providing coaching and capacity building for the staff on issues related to data.
• Participate in the planning and recruitment, with support of the HR department, of the fieldworkers and the data team to ensure an appropriate team in terms of size, capabilities, and skills for proper implementation of the program.
• On a weekly, monthly basis or upon request, prepare data reviews or/and field visit reports about the implementation of the study, and make presentations during the Program or management meetings.
• Performing additional activities whenever needed and as requested by the supervisor
• Responsible for providing implementation support and guidance to Team members.

Coordinate and oversee donor visits within the Country in coordination with the Team Members

Functional/Technical

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• Experience managing public health programs in resource limited settings.
• Experience managing medical researches.
• Experience in the implementation of donor funded program.
• At least 4 years’ experience working with an NGO.
• Experience working with young people and adolescents providing prevention services with referral options.

Your profile (Eligibility Requirement)

• Minimum of Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Epidemiology or Public Health
• Master degree in Statistics and Computer Science is an added advantage
• Minimum of Four (4) years of work experience, working with Developmental Organization or other NGOs is an Added Advantage.
• Must be proficient in the use of data management tools
• Possess a Positive attitude (demonstrate integrity, confidentiality, approachability and diplomacy).
• Ability to withstand work-related pressure, and deliver task in line with PiHC quality standard
• Must possess good communication skills both verbal and written.
• Fluency in English Language is a must

How to apply:

Interested and qualified candidates should kindly send in their application letters and Resume as a single PDF document via mail to [email protected] using Job title and location as the subject of the mail.

Partners in health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer.