Project Officer (Data Management) - EngenderHealth India

Title: Project Officer, Data Management

Location: Ahmedabad

Project Summary: 

The primary project strategy is to provide technical assistance to the State and district to improve access to quality family planning services. The provision of IUD has been identified as a major gap in FP services available in India’s public health system. To address this gap the EAISI project will focus on increasing access to high quality IUD services including postpartum IUD.

Job Summary: 

Project Officer, Data management will be mainly responsible for collection, entry, compilation, database maintenance, validation and analysis of project data to show project’s achievement.

Responsibilities:

• Work in close coordination with project officers under the guidance of supervisor
• Support project officers in collection & entry of received data  from the facilities
• Ensure quality data collection technique are established and used by all concerned project officers/field staff
• Compile, validate, evaluate and analyze the data on routine basis to improve its quality
• Troubleshoots data submission and data error issues
• Share findings of data on monthly basis to supervisor on time to minimize the errors
• Responsible to deliver quality data on time as per project’s requirement
• Visit at least once to the facility with District data entry operator or M&E person to strengthen his/her knowledge and skill about data management
• Establish close relation with M&E person of the district to strengthen Govt. mechanism of data collection, entry and compilation
• Support clusters for project activities(HDO, ASHA orientation, IP and SOJT) wherever required
• Provide district/zone wise analyzed report to the project staff as and when required
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual data reports or as per requirement
• Attend and participate in data related meetings of the office or in assigned zone
• Do other work as assigned by supervisor

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Good knowledge of reproductive health; family planning; IUD - advantages, prevalent myths and misconceptions in community and how to overcome them
• Good knowledge on quality improvement and quality assurance of health services
• Strong communication, facilitation, liaison, and motivation skills
• Good training skills
• Ability to collect data; expertise in compilation; analysis of data and writing reports
• Computer skills - MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Internet Explorer
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Willingness to travel to peripheral health facilities and villages up to 75% of time
• Local candidate with own vehicle and willing to travel within a district will be preferred 

EngenderHealth provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status.

To apply for this position, please visit our website at www.engenderhealth.org and click on the careers link. Then click on the “India” link to locate the job title and submit your application online along with your CV.”