Data Entry Clerks at Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi)

Job Title: Data Entry Clerk

Background

• The Accelerating the Control of HIV Epidemic in Adamawa, Borno, Yobe & Taraba States (ACE-1) Project implemented by AHNi, and the consortium partners is a robust, sustainability-focused, high-impact, evidence-based HIV/AIDS intervention funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
• It aims at fast-tracking the attainment of UNAIDS 95:95:95 targets and achieving epidemic control in the focus states. Effective October 1, 2024, AHNi-ACE-1 took over the HIV implementation for the general population in Taraba State.
• AHNi verified and retained the Adhoc personnel transitioned from RISE for the first 3months to ensure adequate HR availability to continue service provision in all facilities.
• AHNi-ACE-1 in collaboration with the Taraba State Government seeks to engage Adhoc personnel to fill the following roles across the 29 Supported Health Facilities in Taraba.

Overall Responsibilities

• The incumbent will carry out paper and electronic data entry and monitoring, the reconciliation of data from the community outreach program, testing from the CBOs/partners, other testing modalities and drug refills from CPARP and other DSD models.

Specific Roles and Responsibilities
The services of the Professional Case Manager will include but not limited to the following:

• Carry out paper and electronic data entry, monitoring, and reporting of HIV services
• Work with Medical records officer and service providers to ensure documentation of services in requisite data capture tools.
• Prepare a daily summary report and enter it into the daily performance tracker.
• Follow up on data gaps and outliers identified in the daily SRM meetings.
• Follow up on the update of the Viral load tracker and ensure facility submission every week.
• Daily upload of EMR to NDR.
• Daily upload on the EMID platform for COVID 19
• Institute situation room meetings at the facility/with the State team for the daily update.
• Monitor reporting rate and outlier analysis daily.
• Ensure gaps and outliers are corrected within 2 hours.
• Update runs charts and ensure data use at the facility.
• Daily reconciliation of community and facility reports.
• Monthly validation of all service registers and generation of Monthly summary forms for all data sets on the DHIS2 and EMID platforms.
• Submit monthly MSF to LGA and the State Office.
• Provide support to medical record officers at spoke sites.
• Ensure Community data is completely and correctly reported daily
• Any other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

Recruitments

• B.Sc / HND / National Diploma (ND) qualification/ National Certificate of Education (NCE) Computer Science/Statistics/HIM or other Health-related qualifications with at least One (1) year post-qualification experience in managing comprehensive TB and HIV programs in resource-constrained settings
• Experience in a similar position is an added advantage
• Knowledge about the operating environment i.e. Adamawa, Borno, Adamawa, Yobe and Taraba States.
• Ability to read and write in English. The ability to communicate in Hausa or other local language will be an added advantage.
• Must be computer Literate for the position of Data Entry Clerk
• Must be able to use an Android device.
• Must be a resident in the LGA of assignment.
• Candidate MUST NOT be an employee of the State or Nigerian Government (Any violation of this condition will attract outright dismissal from the Adhoc services with sanctions)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Up-to-date knowledge about HIV interventions and programming at facility and community levels.
• Knowledge about the operating environment i.e. Adamawa, Borno, Yobe and Taraba States
• Knowledge of the Nigerian clinical setting, including government and non-government settings.
• Sensitivity to cultural differences and understanding of the social, political, and ethical issues surrounding HIV infections.
• Ability to work well with others and to develop and maintain compatibility among project staff, subcontractors, consultants, and recipients of assistance.
• Ability to communicate in the local dialect.
• Well-developed computer skills.

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is no 9th December, 2024. Qualified and interested candidates should send their updated Resume to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted. It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy.

Official Job Website: https://ahnigeria.org/