Medecins Sans Frontieres is a private, non-profit international humanitarian organization dedicated to providing medical assistance to populations in crisis, without discrimination and regardless of race, religion, gender, creed or political affiliation.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Supervisor, Data Entry
Location: Jega, Kebbi
Contract Period: Indefinite
Open to: The vacancy is open to all residents of Nigeria
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensure completion of all activities related to medical data entry and data management into the mission database. Supervise, organise and plan the activity of Data Entry officers/operators, as well as identify their training needs in order to provide a good service support and reliability of the data collected.
- Supervise, organise and plan the activity of Data Entry officers to have a reliable record of medical activity performed, as well as identify their training/technical support needs in order to provide a good service support and reliability of the data collected.
- Ensure collation and entry of all data identified by project managers for collection (e.g. morbidity, mortality, surveillance of diseases of epidemics, nutrition, psychological and women’s health, etc) into the appropriate data management system while ensuring quality of data
- Do quality control data officers’ performance on regular basis
- Know and ensure proper use of software used for recording (i.e. Fuchia, Epi Info, etc.).
- Ensure accuracy of the medical data entered into the mission’s database on a regular basis, according to MSF protocols and carry out regular back-ups.
- Provide technical support to data entry officers/operators in project sites and give response to their training needs.
- Provide regular statistical reports for the medical team as well as informing the superior of any missing information, major changes or big differences in data.
MSF Section / Context Specific Accountabilities
- On a weekly basis or as needed, ensure that all project databases are diligently checked for any errors and eliminate bad data (redundant, incomplete, and incorrect data).
- Provide management and supervision to the medical data team to ensure high quality data is maintained across all medical activities.
- Support the Medical Data Processing Officer to ensure that all units across the medical activities (ATFC, ER/ICU, ITFC, <6 and Isolation) have correct and sufficient hardcopy data collection forms.
- Provide technical support to the data team in the implementation and maintenance of new / existing data collection tools and processes (e.g., reviewing patient/data flow, reconciling data collection, encoding and entry for the purpose of monitoring and evaluating activities).
- Timely identification of needs within the data team (associated with HR, learning and development, technical support etc.) to ensure high quality data/data system management, ensuring that issues are promptly reported to Project Medical Referent/Activity Manager to address needs.
- Conduct and support in analyses of project data for the purpose of routine reporting and ad-hoc requests as needed.
- Support data team in organizing and archiving patients file in the archive room
- Give technical support to medical doctors and nurses to indicate needed information in the patients’ files
- In line with LGAs / sMOH, monitor and report to PMR news of outbreak.
Requirements
- Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree in relevant fields.
Application Closing Date
22nd January, 2023.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Important Information
- Candidates should submit their application, including cover letter, resume and copy of relevant certificates and NYSC certificate / Exemption Letters to; the link above.
- MSF is an equal opportunity employer, both men and women are encouraged to apply.
- Only short-listed candidates will be notified and invited for interview;
- Dual Employment is considered gross misconduct as contained in MSF Belgium Internal Regulations (IR) guideline and hence not acceptable.
- Applications should be sent through the indicated channel, else the application will not be entertained.
- Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the next steps.
- MSF reserves the right to cancel any step or whole of the recruitment process at any stage.
- MSF Belgium takes this opportunity to thank all potential candidates for their application.
