District Strategic Information Evaluation Officer

Duties and Responsibilities

-Lead the implementation of all SIE activities in the district.
-Provide supportive supervision to health facilities and communities on SIE-related activities, including recording and reporting using appropriate tools.
-Intensively mentor facility-level MOHCC staff to ensure they can collect, consolidate, verify, analyze, and use data for facility-level data-driven decision-making and quality improvement activities.
-Collaborate with the District Health Information Officer (DHIO)/Data Entry Clerk (DEC) to build the capacity of facility staff on SIE-related activities.
-Participate in DHT coordination meetings and provide feedback on trends and performance updates -from health facility-level data analysis.
-Work with facilities to ensure systematic filing (cohort) and management of ART patient booklets, both in hard copy (green books) and electronic (ePMS/EHR/ePOC) to promote quality patient care.
-Support the efficient and effective use of e-health systems in facilities for quality service provision, e.g., appointment setting and defaulter tracking.
-Ensure timely and complete entry of data from priority sites onto MOHCC DHIS.2, DATIM, ACCE DHIS2 database, and other necessary platforms.
-Participate in the continuous review of monitoring tools and provide feedback to ensure that the tools are relevant for the program.
-Use data to identify key program issues to ensure monitoring systems are improved to address bottlenecks.
-Collaborate with DHIO to cascade national-level SIE practices, including rolling out revised guidelines, tools, and approaches for the district.
-Support the district to implement strategies in response to PEPFAR MER and other data requirements.
-Ensure longitudinal patient monitoring aspects of case-based surveillance are done to ensure high-quality HIV programming retains people in care and keeps them virally suppressed to avoid recurrence of the epidemic.
-Support program documentation efforts through success stories, research, and manuscripts drafting.
-Supervise the SIE Assistant and Data Entry Clerks where relevant.
-Conduct data quality improvement activities at the district and facility levels, including data triangulation meetings, data review and analysis, and on-site data verification.
-Ensure facility managers conduct routine register checks and OI/ART care booklet audit.
-Provide backup support to the program team at the district level and prepare reports for the district and the sites.
-Support sites in maintaining a DECs supervision system using the DEC schedule.
-Support site data consolidation meetings.
-Build the capacity of sites to utilize site-level data to improve service delivery through Quality Improvement (QI) corners, specifically assisting facilities to monitor progress on QI indicators using relevant graphs.
-Ensure the Electronic Patient Monitoring System is up to date per the given time.
-Conduct data analysis, reporting, and utilization.
-Provide strategic information for district-level decision-making in relation to program performance monitoring and planning for implementation.
-Support district and facility-level teams to produce cascades for relevant HIV services.
-Analyze routine monthly, semi-annual, and annual data in line with the data analysis plan and provide feedback to programs and the DHT.
-Work with community partners to de-duplicate and analyze HTS data and linkage trends.
-Perform cohort analysis for linkage and entry point analysis for HIV-positive clients.
-Produce high-frequency reports, monthly and quarterly SIE reports based on agreed indicators guiding decision-making and program implementation at the district level.