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DHIS2 DATABASE MANAGER

actionagainsthunger

WASHINGTON DC, District of Columbia, 20020

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Salary:

$80000  - $85000 Year

Job type:

Monday to Friday

Job Schedule:

Day shift

Job benefits:

Health insurance
Paid time off
Employee discount
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k)
401(k) matching
Flexible schedule
Parental Leave
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible spending account
Others

Description:

The DHIS2 Database Manager is responsible for supporting the Action Against Hunger MEAL staff in adopting DHIS 2 into daily work processes, developing DHIS 2 modules, advancing collective DHIS 2 implementation, and providing technical support to new DHIS 2 users within the MEAL and Program teams. The position involves establishing new procedures as well as effectively implementing existing ones to collect, analyze, and disseminate data.


KEY ACTIVITIES IN YOUR ROLE WILL INCLUDE
Purpose: Provides technical leadership on DHIS 2 implementation and makes recommendations on how to integrate DHIS 2 into business operations following best practices for quality, testability & operability.

Engagement: Works closely with members of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Team. Attends and participates in staff meetings and workshops and Mentors and coaches MEAL staff.

Delivery: The position demands great communication skills, flexibility, proactivity, and efficiency, with demands and expectations prone to changing on a day-to-day basis.



Essential Job Duties

- DHIS 2 Configuration

Lead and support country offices to configure and implement DHIS2 for data management and dashboards.
Conduct technical research on the new system features and provide relevant presentations to the end users.
Recommending improvements and assisting in changes to best practices.
Maintain data integration components such as SQL queries, stored procedures, data extraction and cleansing, and integration with system front-end components.
Create scripts to integrate with Scheduler for automating production runs.
Collaborates with all roles within the MEAL team to implement DHIS 2 in data collection and data entry relevant projects.
Develop, update, repair, and modify DHIS 2 modules to comply with project requirements.
- Data Management and Analysis

Support team members in analyzing the collected data. Work with MEAL teams to build out analytical use cases and visualizations for DHIS2.
Create dashboards with frequently used favorites and standard reports based on the migrated indicators from different countries' data sources at all levels.
Provide support for the systems after they go live in a very dynamic, geographically distributed, and timeline-sensitive work environment.
Automate the export functions for various global MEAL reports, including but not limited to quarterly project/country reports, to ease the integration with dashboards.
Support the preparation of dashboards and infographics in MEAL departments using dashboards.
- Quality Assurance

Develop and implement Quality assurance and Security protocols.
Develop controls such as program rules and validations to ensure data completeness and accuracy.
Works closely with other teams across the organization and contributes to team meetings to understand and mitigate issues as well as improve performance

Skill:

Strong project management skills
Detail-oriented
deadline-driven
with strong organizational skills

Others Requirements:

3 years
5 years’ experience
4-5 years of experience

Category:

Manufacturing

Positions:

On going position

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