Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Malawi
Palladium Group is seeking to fill the role of Senior Digital Health Technical Officer.
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
- Strengthen adherence to the principles for digital development and a user-centered approach to design, development and implementation of digital health solutions
- Provide adequate version management of digital health software solutions
- Coordinate with the software development team and all the relevant departments in building and testing digital health intervention
- Coordinate user acceptance testing and documentation of digital solution test results
- Conduct pre and post digital health solution implementation review
- Create and maintain user guides and documentation of digital health solutions that are implemented
- Provide regular updates to head of the digital health on implementation of specific digital health solutions
- Maintain regular communication between QMD, USAID, and implementing partners
- Participate in relevant technical working groups, digital health meetings, workshops, and training
- Coordinate regularly with other product owners and product managers to disseminate updates on products, prioritise and identify opportunities for interoperability between products, and discuss potential new products
- Periodically review products that have been deployed in the field to ensure they continue to satisfy user requirements
- Provide high-level support to QMD in designing and conducting information systems assessments and conducting regular system audits at facility and district levels
- Build ICT capacity and ensure adherence to global standards in digital health and development solutions
- Actively contribute to QMD’s annual work plan and desired programme outputs in digital health
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Public Health, Health Informatics or related fields
- Five years, minimum, of professional experience in information management systems/data analytics, with experience developing and/or implementing eHealth solutions in an African context
- Experience in working with national health information systems and platforms such as DHIS2, CommCare,OpenSRP, Logiak, or RapidPro
- Demonstrated experience working on systems interoperability
- Understanding of digital best practices, including the principles for digital development
- Superior knowledge of project management principles to manage projects and work with multi-disciplinary teams, including a broad and extensive knowledge of IT principles, the software development life cycle, methods and techniques
- Relevant experience working with government counterparts at the national and sub-national level and excellent diplomatic and stakeholder management skills are required
- Understanding of governmental structures and processes in Malawi and current eHealth initiatives in Malawi preferred
- Fluency in English
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