Background
Ethiopia’s health indicators have been remarkably improved from one of the worst in Sub-Saharan Africa to amongst the stand out performers in just two decades. The lives of millions of children have been saved, millions of new infections and death from communicable diseases such as HIV, Malaria, and Tuberculosis have been averted. All this was done while building a health system that can sustain the gains over the long term.
Despite the impressive progress made, Ethiopia still has high rates of morbidity and mortality from preventable causes. There is also disparity in uptake and coverage of high impact interventions amongst different regions and Woredas. The quality of health care in terms of improving patient safety, effectiveness, and patient-centeredness, in both public and private facilities, is often inconsistent and unreliable.
The Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP), in line with our country’s second growth and transformation plan (GTPII), has set ambitious goals to improve equity, coverage and utilization of essential health services, improve quality of health care, and enhance the implementation capacity of the health sector at all levels of the system.
Objective
The senior HMIS adviser will provide advice to Policy Planning Monitoring and Evaluation director on health information system. Besides day to day advice, he/she will develop different HIS training manuals and standards, as well as provide direct ad-hoc strategic advice as required by the target beneficiaries.
The advice provided to the Director and case teams under the directorate directly linked with the information revolution transformation agenda and the HSTP strategic objectives. As such, the senior advisor will be working closely and coordinate activities with the team of other technical advisors in the directorate.
Scope
To provide high level advisory role to the Director of Policy planning, Monitoring and Evaluation on the implementation of information revolution with respect to improving data quality and enhancing information use for evidence-based decision making. The incumbent will also provide high level technical support for regional health bureaus and lower levels as needed.
Specific deliverables include but not limited to:
Duration
Payment
Reporting
Duration: One year with possibility of extension for 5 years
Location: Addis Ababa, Federal Ministry of Health, Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate
Expected background and Experience
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Required Number: Two(2)