Digital Health and DHIS2 Specialist job at Path

PATH is a global nonprofit dedicated to achieving health equity. With more than 40 years of experience forging multisector partnerships and with expertise in science, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales up innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing heath challenges.

PATH has unparalleled expertise and experience in the development of new tools and strategies for malaria elimination and has the potential to become an acknowledged leader in accelerating efforts towards malaria elimination and global eradication.

PATH’s Center for Malaria Control and Elimination (CMCE) works with PATH staff and strategic partners to coordinate expertise and programming and maximize our collective impact toward malaria elimination.

PATH seeks a Digital Health and DHIS2 Specialist for the Department of State (DOS)-funded Reaching every at-risk community and household with malaria services (REACH Malaria) global project. REACH aims to provide implementation support services and technical assistance to countries to accelerate progress in comprehensive delivery of facility and community-based malaria services, including malaria case management, prevention of malaria in pregnancy (MiP), seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), health systems strengthening, data collection and use for service delivery, and other malaria and maternal and child health prevention interventions.

Responsibilities or duties

The Digital Health and DHIS2 Specialist will report to the Digital Health Lead/Manager and will be supporting the implementation and maintenance of the complex, multi-country DHIS2 configuration that will support Outreach, Training, and Supportive Supervision (OTSS) implementation and project monitoring. This position will also design and develop creative solutions to integrate datasets to monitor health facility quality of care, monitor project performance, and facilitate data use by project staff and national program staff.

Qualifications or requirements 

Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Informatics, or a related field

Experience needed

• Minimum of 5 years documented practical DHIS2 implementation experience.
• At least 3 years of experience with health informatics or digital health work in an international multi-country context
• Experience in supporting the roll-out, implementation, and use of digital health tools and applications, including the DHIS2 Android Capture App, ODK, and/or similar systems.
• Experience in DHIS2 system configuration and maintenance.
• Excellent oral and written communication in English.
• Available to travel nationally and internationally up to 25%.

Responsibilities:

• Support and maintain the multi-country DHIS2 configuration for both desktop and mobile applications. This includes working with Data sets, Event and Tracker Programs, Indicators, Program indicators, management of Users, User groups, Org Units and Org Units Groups, etc.
• Support multi country system administration, maintenance, configuration, analytics, and dashboard development for the REACH project, including the DHIS2 configuration, DHIS2 mobile applications, and other project applications as needed.
• Support the creation and maintenance of data validation rules and other data quality checks to improve data quality.
• Provide technical assistance and troubleshooting to country program staff to support the use of the web and mobile DHIS2 applications, and associated tools.
• Provide technical support to strengthen use of DHIS2 visualizations and dashboards for evidence-based decision-making through the DHIS2 Interpretations app and Data-to-Action approaches.
• Support capacity building of MEL Officers, other project staff, and national program staff in REACH supported countries to effectively use DHIS2 and other digital health tools and interpret data.
• Support the implementation of detailed plans to support the transition and integration of the project’s DHIS2 to national Ministry of Health or national malaria program systems, including both systems administration, ongoing maintenance, and management of day-to-day operations.

Desired skills:

• Oral, written and presentation skills in English and French.
• Experience writing queries to interrogate and analyze DHIS2 data (i.e. using DHIS2 API, SQL, Python, R or other programming languages).
• Experience developing data pipelines, automated data analyses, and visualizations.

• Support and maintain the multi-country DHIS2 configuration for both desktop and mobile applications. This includes working with Data sets, Event and Tracker Programs, Indicators, Program indicators, management of Users, User groups, Org Units and Org Units Groups, etc.
• Support multi country system administration, maintenance, configuration, analytics, and dashboard development for the REACH project, including the DHIS2 configuration, DHIS2 mobile applications, and other project applications as needed.
• Support the creation and maintenance of data validation rules and other data quality checks to improve data quality.
• Provide technical assistance and troubleshooting to country program staff to support the use of the web and mobile DHIS2 applications, and associated tools.
• Provide technical support to strengthen use of DHIS2 visualizations and dashboards for evidence-based decision-making through the DHIS2 Interpretations app and Data-to-Action approaches.
• Support capacity building of MEL Officers, other project staff, and national program staff in REACH supported countries to effectively use DHIS2 and other digital health tools and interpret data.
• Support the implementation of detailed plans to support the transition and integration of the project’s DHIS2 to national Ministry of Health or national malaria program systems, including both systems administration, ongoing maintenance, and management of day-to-day operations.

• Oral, written and presentation skills in English and French.
• Experience writing queries to interrogate and analyze DHIS2 data (i.e. using DHIS2 API, SQL, Python, R or other programming languages).
• Experience developing data pipelines, automated data analyses, and visualizations.

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Informatics, or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years documented practical DHIS2 implementation experience.
• At least 3 years of experience with health informatics or digital health work in an international multi-country context
• Experience in supporting the roll-out, implementation, and use of digital health tools and applications, including the DHIS2 Android Capture App, ODK, and/or similar systems.
• Experience in DHIS2 system configuration and maintenance.
• Excellent oral and written communication in English.
• Available to travel nationally and internationally up to 25%.