Data Entry Supervisor – Benishangul - Supervise the collection, entry, validation, analysis, and reporting of all routine medical data from the project to ensure complete, accurate, and timely information for operational decision-making.
- Ensure high-quality reporting of primary healthcare activities, including OPD consultations, EPI, nutrition (MUAC/ATFC), sexual and reproductive health (ANC, PNC, family planning), STI services, mental health, and NCD consultations.
- Monitor and validate surveillance data for epidemic-prone diseases, including malaria, cholera, measles, acute watery diarrhoea, pneumonia, acute malnutrition, and other priority conditions, ensuring rapid reporting of alerts in accordance with MSF and Ministry of Health protocols.
- Conduct routine data quality assessments through verification, cleaning, cross-checking, and reconciliation of source registers, tally sheets, and electronic databases to ensure completeness, consistency, and accuracy.
- Produce timely daily, weekly, monthly, and ad hoc epidemiological and statistical reports to support project monitoring, outbreak preparedness, operational planning, and evidence-based decision-making.
- Collaborate closely with the Epidemiologist, Project Medical Referent, medical teams, laboratory, pharmacy, HPCE, and Ministry of Health staff to ensure that health information accurately reflects project activities and population health trends.
- Support community-based surveillance by ensuring timely compilation, validation, and reporting of community health and disease surveillance data generated through health promotion and community engagement activities.
- Train, mentor, and supervise data entry staff and healthcare workers on MSF health information systems, reporting tools, data quality standards, confidentiality, and proper documentation practices.
- Ensure secure management, routine backup, confidentiality, and protection of all project medical databases and patient information in accordance with MSF data protection policies.
- Participate in emergency preparedness and outbreak response activities by strengthening surveillance systems, supporting rapid data analysis, and producing timely epidemiological information during public health emergencies.
- Support integration of MSF health information systems with Ministry of Health reporting requirements, promoting harmonized indicators, joint monitoring, and capacity building of MoH counterparts.
- Identify abnormal trends, unexpected increases in morbidity or mortality, data inconsistencies, or reporting gaps, and immediately escalate findings to the Epidemiologist and Project Medical Referent for appropriate action.
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