Main purpose of the job:
- Coordinate the data processing and data management activities such as developing standard operating procedures, overseeing data capturing, and providing analysis output and data quality control
Location:
- Ezintsha – 32 Princess of Wales Terrace, Parktown – Johannesburg
Key performance areas:
- Develop and implement data management work plans
- Develop, implement and maintain all data-related SOPs
- Monitor and evaluate the progress of data management for respective projects
- Quality assures all data captured from patient files is in accordance with requirements and SOPs
- Quality assures all data captured into facility registers
- Raise and resolve queries with relevant stakeholders
- Oversee the maintenance of patient files and archiving
- Participate in and represent the data management team at meetings
- Perform daily back-ups
- Provide support for [URL Removed] data capturing and reporting as required
- Import and export data between Data Management software programs
- Generate accurate reports and conduct analysis of the reports as required
- Quality assure monthly data reports from database reports and facility register reports
- Ensure database data is cleaned and quality assured on a monthly basis
- Compare, analyze and interpret data proactively and notify the relevant stakeholders of the findings
- Compile monthly and annual progress reports as required
- Compile ad-hoc data reports as requested for specific evaluation outputs
- Attend to all staffing requirements and administration
- Supervise and manage the duties of subordinates to ensure optimal staff utilization and maintenance of sound labor relations
- Perform and facilitate performance development and assessments
- Identify substandard performance by team members and take necessary corrective action
- Coach and train subordinates and team members to ensure the acquisition of knowledge and skills required by the organization
- Promote harmony, teamwork, and sharing of information
- Take ownership and accountability for tasks and demonstrates effective self-management
- Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of own work are consistently and accurately maintained
- Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
- Take ownership of driving your own career development by participating in ongoing training and development activities such as forums, conferences, policy-setting workshops, etc.
Required minimum education and training:
- Degree in Computer Science, Science or Statistics, Information Science, or any other relevant degree
- A valid driver’s license
Required minimum work experience:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in data management, analysis, and reporting
Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities:
- Master’s degree
- Experience implementing and managing data systems
- Working with donor-driven programs
- Knowledge/experience in STATA, SAS, and MS SQL Server technologies advantageous
- Knowledge/awareness of data warehousing theory and methodologies
- Knowledge/awareness and skills in data handling, modeling, and or database architecture design advantageous
- Good understanding of data quality and ability to develop data quality reporting mechanisms
- Monitoring and evaluation of routine data collection
TO APPLY:
- Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
- Please Apply Online and complete your registration on Ditto Hire (our application tracking system) to enable and protect you as a candidate to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions. This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL. However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market.
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- Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
- The closing date for all applications: 18 November 2022.
- Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
- Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful.
Please note:
- Our Client, WHC – Ezintsha, maintains mandatory Covid-19 requirements, and as such only Covid-19 vaccinated incumbents will be considered for positions.
- WHC, in accordance with its Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.
- AJ Personnel is only responsible for advertising the advertisement on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium.
- AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position.
About The Employer:
Background
Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited (“WHC”) is a wholly-owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health Sciences. WHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research and other activities necessary to support its academic objectives.