Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, non-profit medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, pandemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare. MSF started working in Yemen since 1986 and have been present in the country continuously since 2007. Today, MSF works in 23 hospitals across the country, and provides support to more than 17 health facilities across 13 governorates, in line with our principles of independence, impartiality and neutrality. For more information, visit our Arabic website, www.msf-me.org

Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium in Yemen mission is looking for Yemeni nationals to recruit for the Supervisor Medical Data Entry position:

Location: Mocha Project
Contract Duration – 1 year renewable
Contract type: Fixed – Term
Reporting to:  Project Medical Referent
Supervises: Data Entry Operator

MAIN PURPOSE

Ensure completion of all activities related to medical data entry and data management into the project/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.

Accountabilities

• 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
• Supervise DHIS2 data entry and making analysis of data from DHIS2.

Requirements

Education

• Essential proven computer literacy, secondary education or qualifications either in administration, data entry or in statistics. Degree in Information and Technology (IT) desirable.

Experience

• Essential: Essential working experience of at least one year with MSF.

Language:

• Mission working language (English) and local languages essential (Arabic).

Knowledge:

• Essential knowledge of use of computer including processing of documents (Word, Excel).
• Desirable knowledge on medical statistics data bases.
• DHIS2 knowledge and management mandatory.

Competencies:

• Results and Quality Orientation
• Teamwork and Cooperation
• Behavioural Flexibility
• Commitment to MSF Principles
• Stress Management