data analyst- 261 days

1. Background

The Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) at the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) plays a critical role in safeguarding public health through the delivery, monitoring, and evaluation of routine immunization and supplementary vaccination activities. Accurate and timely data is essential for guiding decision-making, improving program performance, and ensuring that vaccination services reach all target populations especially in the context of increasing demands on the healthcare system and the need for high-quality immunization data.

To strengthen evidence-based planning and enhance the quality, analysis, and use of immunization data at national and sub-national levels, the MoPH–EPI program requires the support of a dedicated Data Analyst. This role will contribute to improved data management systems, enhanced reporting quality, strengthened monitoring processes, and more precise identification of program gaps and priorities. The Data Analyst will work in close collaboration with MoPH EPI teams, district staff, PHCCs, and UNICEF.

2. Work Assignment: Deliverables & Activities

The Data Analyst will be responsible for supporting the EPI program in the collection, cleaning, verification, analysis, visualization, and reporting of immunization and vaccine-related data. The incumbent will ensure the availability of high-quality data for monitoring routine immunization performance, evaluating vaccine coverage, monitoring stock levels and cold chain indicators, and informing strategic planning and operational decisions. The role includes strengthening data systems, developing dashboards, supporting digital platforms, and enhancing data use practices within the MoPH EPI program.

Essential job functions:

• Support the efforts to strengthen and harness data for management and decision making, and timely communication and visibility support
• Ensure quality EPI data, desegregated by nationality, sex and age.
• Support in providing needed data by EUTF Third Party Monitoring Team/ EUTF evaluation team or other requested data
• Interpret EPI data, analyze results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports
• Perform data quality analysis on health information system platforms (PHENICS and MERA), and develop data monitoring tools and indicators to access data quality
• Develop and implement databases, data collection systems, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality
• Track that the consumption and stock data of vaccines are collated from all PHCs and provided on timely manner to UNICEF for accurate forecasting of agreed supply
• Support IT department in providing several indicators to be automatically tracked through EPI electronic registry (such as quality indicators to ensure effective storage of vaccines at all EPI points; quality indicators to ensure acceptable wastage of vaccines and proper vaccine waste management; and no stock out any EPI point).
• Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems. Support in any quantitative or qualitative data collection that is needed for assessing or monitoring EPI services in the field.
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets
• Filter and “clean” data by reviewing computer reports, printouts, and performance
• Identify and recommend new process improvement opportunities
• The work is of a highly confidential nature and the Analyst must maintain the highest standards of confidentiality
• Any other tasks as required by the director of the EPI.