Posted date | 2nd August, 2024 | Last date to apply | 11th August, 2024 |
Country | Pakistan | Locations | Islamabad |
Category | Others | ||
Type | Full Time | Position | 1 |
Status | Closed |
Introduction
The Fleming Fund (FF) is a U.K. Department of Health and Social Care programme to help low and middle-income countries fight Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). AMR poses a severe global threat, expected to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. With potential costs reaching $100 trillion, its impact on the global economy is significant. Fleming Fund Grants aim to tackle the AMR challenge in developing countries including Pakistan. The grants are funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care and managed by Mott MacDonald for the country, regional and fellowship grants. Pakistan has received Fleming Fund support since 2019 in the form of two Country Grants, 9 Fellowships, and central and local procurement of equipment, reagents, and consumables. Between 2017 and the end of phase-1 of the program in March 2023, the program has provided financial support to grantees to establish and support local development of national AMR surveillance systems.
In partnership with the Fleming Fund, DAI's programme in Pakistan collaborates with the Pakistani government to strengthen systems using a “One Health” (OH) approach – a multisectoral approach to complex health problems that reaches across human health, animal health, and environment sectors. As global leaders in One Health, the DAI team helps incorporate One Health across programme interventions. DAI is helping Pakistan become a leader in combating antimicrobial resistance, and a model for better management of antimicrobials in human and animal populations. DAI and its consortium partners have successfully secured an additional round, Phase 2, of the Fleming Fund Country Grant in Pakistan which spans from January 2024 to December 2025. The Phase 2 of the FFCG programme focuses on achieving four intermediate outcomes: 1) Production of quality AMR/U/C and burden of disease data; 2) Conducting quality data analysis; 3) Sharing quality data analysis with decision-makers; and 4) Contributing to sustainable investments at both the country and global levels to counter AMR.
Position Summary
The Fleming Fund Country Grant (FFCG) requires data entry operator for Pakistan to implement the activities pertaining to one health sector with special focus on laboratory capacities at Pakistan Public and private laboratories to enhance and meet the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) AMR Surveillance in low- and middle-income settings a roadmap for participation in the global antimicrobial surveillance system (GLASS), and human health sites reporting as per Fleming Fund priorities. (Work Area 1.03)
Major Responsibilities
Data entry:
- Data entry into the DHIS-2 reporting system.
- Maintain and update the procurement sheet for sampling and perform comparative analysis (procured items vs testing done).
- Convert research/publication-related data from hard copies to soft copies.
- Data analysis using SPSS/R/Python related to specific research or operational needs/demands
- Visit provinces to support data entry as required.
- Virtually guide provincial sites/NIH on identified data related issues and possible solutions.
Data Review & Correspondences
- Review data received from sentinel sites.
- Review data received from the National Institute of Health.
- Review international data for comparative analysis.
- Share data with concerned partners and donor agencies as directed and/or required.
- Support the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team with any data analysis related to One-Health within the human health sector
Data Analysis
- Analyse human health data.
- Analyse animal health data.
- Conduct comparative analysis of One-Health data wherever required.
- Support the Governance and Advocacy team in data presentation and visualization as needed.
- Perform analysis and visualization of different data types (SWOT, Gap Analysis, LAT, SLIPTA) and create corresponding data visualizations.
Additional Tasks
- Assist in the development and maintenance of data management systems especially AMR Dashboards
- Provide training and support to team members and government counterparts on data entry and analysis procedures.
- Ensure data accuracy and integrity through quarterly audits and provide identified issues to government
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate data insights into program strategies and decision-making processes.
- Stay updated with the latest trends and best practices in data management, analysis, and visualization.
Other Duties
- Undertake any other activity assigned by the Supervisor related to data entry, analysis, visualization, or other relevant tasks.
- AMR Surveillance is an evolving field, and in the future, there is the possibility of additional but regular responsibilities to be part of the TORs.
Requirements (Education, Experience, Skills, Languages etc.)
- Essential: Bachelors in data sciences or computer sciences, with masters in public health, healthcare management or other public health discipline OR
- Bachelors in health sciences with masters in data sciences, health data sciences or closely related data sciences discipline OR
- Preferred: Bachelors in data sciences or allied with masters in Microbiology/pathology or closely related alliance OR Bachelors in biology with masters in data sciences, health data sciences or closely related qualification
- Experience: Three years of experience, with two years exclusively in in data management
- Expertise: Expertise in R programming and/or Python. Additional expertise in SAS/SPSS will be and added advantage
- Management Skills: Ability to cope and deliver competing priorities and deliver under pressure
- Skills: Excellent written and verbal commands in English and Urdu.
- Master’s degree in medical/veterinary/biological science/allied health sciences/Agriculture/ or Environmental Science