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Data Clerk / Information Technology (IT) and Telecommunications

Temporary Data Clerk Full Time

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Lighthouse Trust is a registered Public Trust established to manage Centres of Excellence (CoEs) and provide leverage for leadership and delivery of integrated HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support services in Malawi. Lighthouse has been involved in the development of locally applicable HIV care and treatment models. It is strategically positioned in Malawi’s national HIV response due to its close collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH). The Lighthouse in close coordination with MoH provides integrated services at Kamuzu Central Hospital, Bwaila Hospital, and some health facilities in urban and rural areas in Lilongwe, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Zomba Central Hospital and Mzuzu central hospital in Mzuzu. Its strategic approach focuses on client- centred care based on four goals which are:

Goal 1: Service delivery: to enhance high-quality, integrated HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services for adults and children

Goal 2: Model interventions and operations research: to develop, pilot, evaluate, and disseminate innovative programs and policies across the continuum of prevention, treatment, care and support for HIV infection and its co-morbidities, both infectious and non-infectious.

Goal 3: Quality management: to ensure that all patients at Lighthouse clinics and all supported sites are receiving quality health care and services as recommended by the MoH and other health development partners by utilizing quality improvement (QI) methodologies in a multidisciplinary team approach.

Goal 4: Capacity strengthening: to build and strengthen healthcare capacity for high quality HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services.

Lighthouse Trust, with support from the United States of America President’s Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through a Cooperative Agreement with Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has two grants to operate Centres of Excellence for Comprehensive Integrated HIV Care and Treatment Services in Lilongwe (Grant #NUZGGH002131). In order to achieve the above – mentioned goals, Lighthouse wishes to recruit a highly qualified and experienced person to fill the position of:

Position Title: Temporary Data Clerk
Report to: M&E Officer
Team: M&E
Contract Period: May -July
Location: Blantyre and Lilongwe

Job Purpose

The Data Clerk shall work closely with the M&E Officer to ensure that data collection for AIT, HTS and ANC and reporting is complete and accurate within the required time frame.

Responsibilities (include, but are not limited to):

  • Identify, sort and organize HTS registers.
  • Collect disaggregated HTS data from AIT, HTS and ANC registers using appropriate data collection tools.
  • Verify data for errors at facility, compare with monthly MOH reports and identify areas of data discrepancies if any.
  • Provide support to HTS providers in addressing issues affecting the data based on observations in liaison with data officers.
  • Conduct data entry in Lighthouse databases.
  • Compile facility specific data disaggregation report
  • Conduct routine data cleaning and report issues requiring supervisor’s attention.
  • Cross check documented outcomes from AIT/ANC contact registers and query back to HTS providers where outcomes are questionable before updating outcomes in AlT database.
  • Proactively develop personal skills by working with experts in the field, attending appropriate training, correspondence, reading and so on.
  • Contribute to Lighthouse as an organization by participating in regular institutional and team meetings.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Required Qualifications, Experiences and Other Attributes

  • Diploma in Computer Studies, Computer Science, IT, Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Health, or any other related field.
  • Computer skills
  • Prior exposure to MoH HTS registers
  • Worked in an organization/institution that has HIV/AIDS program
  • Experience in collecting age and sex disaggregated data or similar exercise.
  • Experience in data entry and working with databases.

Application Procedure

Eligible candidates meeting the required qualifications and experience should send their applications with cover letter, detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV), copies of certificates, names, addresses and telephone numbers of three traceable referees.

Applications should be received not later than 14th April 2023 to the following address:

The Executive Director
Lighthouse Trust
Kamuzu Central Hospital
P O BOX 106
LILONGWE
Or email to: recruitment@lighthouse.org.mw

Only shortlisted candidates will be communicated

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