Mothers2Mothers Data Officer Job in Kenya

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Mothers2Mothers Data Officer Job in Kenya

Data Officer (fixed term contract) Mothers2Mothers
Through its peer education and psychosocial support services to PMTCT clients, m2m seeks to contribute to the reduction of vertical HIV transmission and improve the health and wellbeing of mothers living with HIV and that of their infants and other family members, as well as improve client retention to ensure that mothers and their babies access all priority services in the PMTCT cascade using the Mentor Mother Model.
m2m now provides peer education and support services in six African countries namely Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland and Uganda at more than 600 health facilities.
Every year, m2m conducts annual evaluations with m2m countries.
The annual evaluation is designed to assess achievements of m2m country PMTCT programmes in accordance with m2m’s strategic objective.
Recently, m2m embarked on improving its scope of work by including Reproductive Maternal and Child Health components to its programme strategic objectives to enable clients and their families improve their overall health.
This change has necessitated revision of our M&E data collection tools.
As expected the transition has brought about some challenges that need to be addressed before the commencement of the 2014 annual evaluation.
m2m has been implementing its Mentor Mother Model in Kenya since 2008 and currently operates 30 health facilities across the country.
Purpose of the Fixed Term Contract
In preparation for the 2014 annual evaluation m2m seeks two experienced data officers to conduct 1) a data quality audit / inspection (i.e. quality assurance) and 2) a PMTCT service uptake quality improvement exercise utilizing the m2m programme logbooks kept at health facilities.
This will be a 2 month fixed term contract.
Scope of Work
The primary responsibilities of the Data Officer will be:

To work with the Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator (MEC) and Mentor Mothers to inspect the m2m programme logbooks to ensure that client records are accurately transferred from the old logbooks to the new logbooks at selected health facilities.

Probe to determine to what extent the guideline for transferring client records was adhered to.

Where data transfer mistakes occurred, correct them.

Under the guidance of the MEC, ensure that future data entry will be done correctly through participating in training of mentor mothers

Under the guidance of the MEC, participate in the “18 months infant test uptake QI intervention” Expected Deliverables

Participation in orientation / training to understand the task at hand

Completed “data quality audit tool” per health facility

Field notes based on observation

Facility based report with detail of the data quality outcome as well as data quality improvements made

A formal report on training of Mentor Mothers to avoid future mistakes in recording client information in logbooks

Completed “infant testing tracking quality improvement” template

Desired background and experience We are seeking someone with both strong research qualifications and programme experience, including:

A post-graduate degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. public health, social sciences or the like)

Proven experience in managing and processing data, including conducting data quality audits

Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to concentrate on detail for long periods of time

The ability to deliver accurate work

The ability to work independently and in a team

Good interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to deliver to deadline

Advanced conceptual and analytical skills

Fluent in Swahili How to apply:
Interested applicants should submit a cover letter and CV to kmmprecruitment@m2m.org by 20 October 2014.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us after one month of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.