Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Namibia
Palladium Group is seeking to fill the role of Policy Lead.
Palladium is a child-safe organisation that works with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical lead for the health information systems (HIS) policy and governance activities of the project
- Support the MOHSS in advancing the national HIS and eHealth strategies
- Develop and disseminate information standards and interoperability toolkit (policies, practices, principles)
- Provide expert scientific advice, consultation, and leadership to Namibia’s MOHSS collaboration to review, adopt, and implement internationally-consistent information standards
- Support the MOHSS to develop strategy and plans for implementation of country data systems for electronic CBS
- Support the assessment and development of data privacy, confidentiality, and security policies
- Support development of national policy and frameworks for implementation of unique patient identifier
- Support the development of EMR standards
- Lead the project’s policy team and supervise team members
Requirements
- Advanced degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, Informatics, Evaluation or a related field
- Five years, minimum, of experience working to strengthen health information systems governance at national and nonnational levels
- Expertise and experience in interoperability and health exchange policies and standards
- Knowledge of eHealth/digital health strategy, policies, and data standards, preferably within the Namibian context
- Proficiency and demonstrated experience in building consensus amongst broad groups of stakeholders including host government, USG agencies, development partners, preferably related to health information systems
- Experience in facilitating development and monitoring of government-led HIS strategy and operational plans and establishing monitoring systems for the plans
- Expertise in cybersecurity
- Strong professional and interpersonal communication skills (including data visualisation, report writing and presentations)
- Ability to work well in teams and maintain positive relationships in complex and demanding situations
- Attention to detail and ability to effectively and efficiently perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities often within a required timeframe
- Unwavering dedication to ethics and compliance with Palladium’s code of conduct and ethics
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