Job Title : Requirements Engineers:
Number of position: Two
Duty station: ICAP Ethiopia head office (Addis Ababa)
Job Summary:
The Requirements Engineers are charged with working with the project stakeholders and end users to elicit, understand, analyze, and document the requirements for an EMR, HMIS and LIS systems in order to fulfill stakeholder requirements. The Requirements Engineer will also be responsible for producing specifications and determining operational feasibility.
Duties and responsibilities:
· Participate in identifying, documenting and sharing best practices of data use for evidence-based clinical and public health practices to strive for quality and equitable health service delivery
· Participate in the landscape and gap analysis of the existing HIS, including EMR and lab information systems to identify gaps or factors that hinders information use for program or patient monitoring at health facility and administrative level
· Develop system analysis tool and undertake systematic system analysis
· Develop detailed and comprehensive system requirements on all aspects of patient and information flow, interoperability, data collection, aggregation, analysis, use, and reporting
· Compares stakeholders needs to what different systems have to offer and helps identify which system meets all/most of needs and present the detailed and comprehensive system requirements to all relevant stakeholders
· Coordinate and undertake in-house/field testing of the developed HIV Care Module of EMR and document and provide systematic feedback to the programmers
· Follow-up the enhancement of the system based on in-house/ field testing feedbacks
· Participate in development of system documentation
· Develop training materials encompassing both ICT (hardware and software) and health program monitoring
· Provide Training of Trainers (TOT)
· Identify any gaps between system requirements or end-user needs and the existing /newly developed electronic systems, including DHIS 2 and EMR, and provide support to enhance the system accordingly
· Participate in developing data validation rules to be followed during data collection and software customization or development
· Participate in different HIS technical working groups (TWGs) and support the FMOH and RHBs in development of strategic information and other areas as required
· Provide technical assistance in adopting eHealth standards to facilitate information system interoperability.
· Complete performance reports regularly
· Carry out other tasks as required
· BSc Software engineering, ICT, Computer engineering or related fields ,Masters in Health Informatics is advantageous
· More than 5 years of experience, experience in Health sector is advantageous
· Preferably working on the health information management, including HMIS, eHMIS, EMR or other patient monitoring systems
· Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the Ethiopian heath system and health information systems in general and HIV-related information management, including patient monitoring
· Ability to lead and produce results with a strong knowledge of results-based management
· Ability to organize information using appropriate mode of presentation and style and to communicate effectively, illustrating relevance of information to the intended audience
· Strong analytical, negotiation and communication skills, including ability to produce high quality reports and knowledge products
· Strong oral and written skills in English and Amharic
· Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel, and basic knowledge of databases including SQL/oracle or any other RDBNS is required