Core Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Support planning for prevention, preparedness, early detection, response, and recovery activities pertaining to disease outbreak

• Support implementation of surveillance through the components of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) that include Event-Based Surveillance (EBS) Indicator-based surveillance (IBS), Community Based Surveillance and Sentinel Surveillance

• Participate in conceptualization and development of SDI and EPR programs to ensure synergy with the structure and workflows in SPIM
• Collaborate with other SPIM and other directorates (including SDI and EPR) to analyze M&E data and develop data products (e.g., briefs, bulletins, dashboards) that present information to different audiences to inform public health decision-making

• Participate and support twice-weekly SDI and EPR epi-intelligence meetings

• Ensure and coordinate access to the key data variables SPIM needs to generate critical public health insight 
• Ensure effective coordination of data use across the various directorates

• Actively work with teams to review the quarterly and annual activity plans and set targets that will address performance goals of the clusters

• Work with teams to set key performance indicators and work to apply the 7-1-7 framework in evaluating programmatic effectiveness in response to specific epidemic responses

• Work with the Chief Informatics Officer to develop and implement protocols for the collection, cleaning, storage, and analysis of health-related data.

• Prepare and disseminate regular reports on public health indicators and data-driven insights.

• Responsible for maintaining the feedback loop on performance of the various cluster teams and working through performance improvement plans

• Participate in the development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), guidelines, tools and manuals

• Ensure optimal utilization of information technology tools for data collection, analysis, and reporting in order to ensure accurate data collection for decision making.

• Work closely with the Chief Informatics Officer to ensure the integration of emerging technologies to enhance data management and analysis capabilities.

• Develop training programs to enhance the data management, analysis and interpretation skills of Zambia National Public Health Institute staff

• Develop expertise and super user role of systems and applications (e.g. dashboards, eIDSR, ZEBRA) used by ZNPHI surveillance and response staff; support trainings and issue resolution as needed
• Track timely implementation of workplans and provide ongoing feedback support to teams

• Other duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Qualifications & Experience 

• Full Grade 12 School Certificate with minimum five O level credits including English and Mathematics
• Bachelors Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Informatics, Demography, Library and Information Science or related field.
• Masters Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Informatics or related field
• Experience in data analysis, ideally with surveillance or routine programmatic data
• Experience translating data into information and developing data products (e.g., presentations, briefs, bullets) designed to inform decision-making
• Experience working with health data, including infectious diseases or other public health intelligence, is desirable
• Experience making graphs and charts in Microsoft Excel is required
• Experience with an analytic software package (e.g. SAS, Stata, R) is desirable
• Experience developing dashboards (e.g., PowerBi, Tableau) is desirable
• Experience with GIS software (ArcGIS, QGIS) is desirable

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Team player
• Excellent interpersonal and public relation skills
• Capacity in decision-making and problem-solving