Overview
Provides strategic, technical, and operational leadership for the design, governance, implementation, and continuous improvement of medical content within digital health ecosystems.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development, governance and continuous improvement of medical content within digital health systems.
- Define and maintain standardized medical indicators, datasets, metadata, clinical terminology and reporting structures.
- Review requests for new medical content and determine technical feasibility, operational relevance and alignment with organizational standards.
- Coordinate medical content validation and approval processes.
- Ensure medical content complies with intersectional standards, medical guidelines and interoperability principles.
- Collaborate with Data Science, Epidemiology and Digital Health teams to strengthen health information systems and data governance.
- Contribute to organizational digital health strategy and innovation initiatives.
- Participate in development of digital health policies, standards and governance frameworks.
- Conduct medical data analysis at portfolio level during planning and reporting cycle/s.
- Provide technical support to country programs regarding implementation and use of medical content within DHIS2, EMRs and other digital platforms.
- Maintain project-specific metadata according to changing program needs.
- Support system changes, testing and deployment of medical content updates.
- Develop and maintain data collection guidance documents and metadata documentation.
- Provide expert advice on indicator definitions, reporting requirements and data interpretation.
- Support implementation of data quality improvement initiatives.
- Participate in software upgrades, user acceptance testing and rollout of new system functionality.
- Coordinate annual reporting processes including organizational indicators and strategic reporting requirements.
- Support programs in strengthening routine data use for monitoring, quality improvement and evidence-based decision-making.
- Support Med-Ops cell/s and country programs in medical programming data analysis.
- Support implementation of medical data governance frameworks.
- Promote standardization and harmonization of medical datasets across programs.
- Develop dashboards, visualizations and reporting tools that improve interpretation of medical data.
- Support analysis of routine health information for operational monitoring.
- Collaborate with Data Science and Epidemiology teams to improve data quality, completeness and consistency.
- Support development of indicator frameworks for monitoring program performance.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of data standards and reporting systems.
- Represent MSF Ubuntu within MSF intersectional Digital Health, DHIS2 and Health Information System Communities of Practice.
- Participate in technical working groups related to digital health, health information systems and interoperability.
- Coordinate medical content development with advisors across technical disciplines.
- Collaborate with external partners, academic institutions and software developers where appropriate.
- Represent MSF Ubuntu in digital health conferences, workshops and technical meetings.
- Support in establishing the E-health team in the upcoming years.
- Develop and maintain training materials on medical content and digital health systems.
- Deliver webinars, workshops and user training on medical data collection, reporting and data use.
- Mentor program teams on best practices in health information management.
- Support onboarding of new users and technical advisors.
- Provide second-line support for medical content related queries.
- Contribute to organizational learning on digital health and data governance.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian or public health programs (Essential).
- Demonstrated experience developing, implementing and working with DHIS2 and/or Electronic Medical Records and/or Health information systems, including medical indicators, metadata, and reporting systems (Essential).
- Experience and skilled in medical data management, analysis and visualization (Essential).
- Proven experience in supervision, mentoring, and trainings skills.
- Demonstrated experience in supervision, mentoring, and training.
Qualifications
- Medical Doctor, Registered Nurse, Clinical Officer or other relevant health qualifications (Essential).
- Master’s degree in public health, Health Informatics, Epidemiology, Digital Health, Health Information Systems or related field (Essential).
