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Tanzania: HIV Infrastructure Advisor II
RTI is seeking an Infrastructure Advisor who will provide technical advice to CDC Tanzania as part of a project team, working on schemes through all stages of a project's procurement and development. The Advisor will develop knowledge of fundamental project issues for a range of sectors, but particularly social infrastructure for a CDC HIV infrastructure development project. He/she will manage projects, including financial, technical and contractual matters and compliance with internal quality procedures and directives.
Qualifications: BA/BS and at least 5 years' experience advising on infrastructure projects. Significant project experience in the social infrastructure sector, experience engaging the private anti public s.tors to build and manage alliances and facilitate resources to achieve expected results in productive infrastructure projects. Experience reviewing engineering and infrastructure studies and analyses, infrastructure designs and inspections of public and private sector funded initiatives. Experience working with and managing a range of clients and stakeholders including Tanzanian government authorities and/or lenders. Strong oral and written communication skills in English required. Experience of preparing basic financial models preferred. Evidence of working on varied technical topics and flexibility to adapt knowledge to areas outside immediate experience.
Tanzania: Health Information Systems Advisor
RTI is seeking a Health Information Systems (HIS) Advisor who will support CDC Tanzania in providing technical assistance to the Tanzanian govemment to integrate and coordinate surveillance and programmatic data analysis to support decision-making for planning and policy needs, including cataloguing, reviewing, a. tracking of health-related data available in country. The HIS Advisor will work with partners and Tanzanian Ministry of Health (MOH) counterparts to design and develop a national HIS integration framework. The framework will integrate health data from all existing, diverse data sources, and will provide a secure environment for users to extract consolidated public health data. This coordination of surveillance and programmatic data analyses will support decision making for planning and policy needs, including cataloguing, reviewing, and tracking of health related data available in country.
Qualifications: University degree in information systems. ICT systems/business analysis or business and management. At least 6 years demonstrated experience in healthcare-related database and data warehouse design and development for U.S. Government-funded projects, other internationally funded programs, Tanzanian NG0s, or private sector. Strong knowledge and experience in data warehouse principles and technology. Experience with business process analysis, workflow, requirements specification development, and data modeling. Strong knowledge and experience with data extract, transform, and load (ETL) principles, methods, and technology, and the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) for electronic data transfer. Knowledge of DHIS 2 data structures, analytic, data visualization, data import/export capabilities, and API desired. Strong oral and written communication skills in English required.
To apply please send your CV and cover letter to globalhealthresearch@rti.org. Please use Indicate position title(only) in the subject line.
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Source: The Guardian January 30, 2018