Rwanda: Chief Informatics Officer

Position Title: Chief Informatics Officer
Reports to: Executive Director, IMB/PIH Rwanda
Location: Rwinkwavu, Rwanda

Organizational Profile
Partners In Health (PIH) is an international health organization relentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. PIH partners with local governments to build capacity and works closely with impoverished communities to deliver high-quality health care, address the root causes of illness, train providers, advance research, and advocate for global policy change.
PIH currently has implementation programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Sierra Leone and Navajo Nation. In 2005, PIH and its Rwandan sister organization, Inshuti Mu Buzima (IMB), began working in partnership with the Government of Rwanda to address the critical HIV/AIDS epidemic afflicting the population and to comprehensively strengthen the public health system in rural, underserved districts in Rwanda. Through our partnership with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we also support a wide range of programs in dozens of other countries around the world.

Primary Responsibilities
Team Leadership:

• Provide leadership and synergy for the functions of Information Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Geographical Information Systems, Monitoring and Evaluation across all the IMB sites in Rwanda and networking with Boston Informatics team;
• Develop and nurture mutually beneficial and respectful relationships with the MOH, RBC and District Health teams responsible for Informatics;
• Strengthen health information systems across all IMB programs and service areas whilst collaborating with all key program area leadership;
• Manage and facilitate the professional development of a growing team and support health information system capacity-building efforts for program staff within organization;
• Oversee monitoring of all IMB programs, including selection of indicators and creation of logic models and M&E plans, in collaboration with relevant program managers;
• Liaise with donor organizations in the development and negotiation of monitoring and evaluation plans and performance indicators for grants;
• Lead the development of health information systems strategic planning and budgeting;
• Represent the Informatics team at senior IMB meetings, high-level meetings with external partners, the MOH and conferences; and,
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with key counterparts in partner organizations, including government agencies, non-profit organizations and community leaders.

Data Analysis & Utilization:

• Lead interpretation and communication of M&E analyses to leadership for strategic decision-making;
• Develop tools to facilitate improvement of data quality and increased data utilization at the facility level;
• Develop specific data collection protocols that ensure accountability and a robust stream of information to decision-makers and key stakeholders;
• Support the design and implementation of Clinical Quality Improvement projects;
• Oversee the development of M&E sections of grant proposals and donor reports;
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to assess project performance against program objectives, logic models and targets;
• Lead priority setting for dissemination of PIH M&E work in peer-reviewed journals and at international conferences, in coordination with IMB leadership and PIH Boston Monitoring, Evaluation & Quality team;
• Encourage data-driven decision-making at district and national MOH levels; and,
• Ensure the timely dissemination of results and conclusions from monitoring, evaluation and quality improvement activities, both within PIH and to other partners and stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Master’s level degree in health related or Informatics field is required;
• Minimum 5 years professional experience in developing and/or executing health information and monitoring and evaluation systems;
• Significant personnel management and mentorship experience, particularly within a cross-cultural context;
• Demonstrable experience in quantitative evaluation methods, including statistical software such as STATA;
• Mastery of data manipulation and data mining in Ms. Excel;
• Strong written and spoken English skills and ability to communicate clearly with a variety of stakeholders;
• Ability to independently prioritize multiple tasks, work under pressure, and meet deadlines;
• Work experience in resource-limited settings and/or rural areas;
• Willingness to travel to remote sites regularly;
• Experience with operational research and peer-reviewed publication preferred; and,
• Ability to live in and work in rural Rwanda full-time required.

Online applications only, please apply through our website.