Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) is a non-profit organization that promotes socio-economic development by supporting global health and economic initiatives in Nigeria. It was established as indigenous organizational, registered in 2009 with its headquarter in Abuja, and presence in the four geopolitical regions of Nigeria.  It aims to provide technical assistance to the government and people of Nigeria in the implementation of public health and development programs.

The Global Fund Grant Cycle (GC7) is to ensure a coordinated and intensive effort to scale up the prevention, identification, and treatment of HIV in both general and key populations in Anambra state. The focus will be on facility and community-based approaches to reach epidemic control, and in addition, ensure improvement in the coverage of pregnant women on ART as well as target KP and AGYW programs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Assistant Technical Officer-Health Informatics

Location: Borno
Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Description

• The Assistant Technical Officer – HI will be engaged to ensure the optimization and full functionality of all supported databases (LAMIS inclusive) across all ACE supported facilities while also coordinating all Health Informatics related activities in the State.
• S/He will provide technical assistance for the design and content development for electronic information systems (LAMIS, DHIS, GIS and any other AHNi package) used for M&E operations.
• This function will include assisting the software programming team in developing actual logic statements for the coding of M&E indicators and software business rules where necessary and checking that all software development is done according to already established standards and procedures.
• Assist the software programming team in developing actual logic statements for the coding of M&E indicators and software business rules where necessary and checking that all software development is done according to already established standards and procedures.

Minimum Recruitment Standard

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science or other relevant field with 2-4 years’ experience in software development, DHIS 2 configuration. Deployment skills will be an added advantage
• MB.BS/MPH/MSc or similar degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, General Statistics or Biostatistics, Health Informatics and/or Management or M&E with 1 to 2 years relevant experience in project-level or state/national-level monitoring and evaluation system implementation.
• Familiarity with Nigerian public sector health systems and NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable.

Application Closing Date
29th November, 2024.