Job Position: mHealth Project/IT Assistant
Duty Station/Location: Baitadi/Banke DHO with frequent travel to rural communities
Reports to: Project Manager
Direct Reports/Supervision: Health workers and FCHVs of Baitadi/Banke
Purpose of the position:
â— The mHealth Project/IT Assistant is responsible for supporting the Project Manager, mHealth trainers and M&E team to implement the mHealth Program. His/her main responsibility is to monitor the dashboard and communicate and coordinate with FCHVs, health facility and district focal persons and work closely with district HMIS team.
Key job responsibilities are:
Monitor gateway, web-app and dashboard
- Monitor gateway on a weekly basis and ensure the phone has adequate credit
- Monitor web-app and dashboard on a daily basis and provide feedback to the respective FCHVs and DHO staff, if necessary
- Assist FCHVs via phone, if needed
- Share data with the health facility on a monthly basis and share feedback, if necessary
- Work very closely with district HMIS team and focal person for data management, data validation feedback
- Communicate with the Tech Lead and Project Manager in case of any trouble in the webapp, dashboard and other software related issues
Prepare for FCHV training
- Coordinate with health facility in-charges to gather information and documents from FCHVs
- Coordinate with local telecom office to collect SIM cards for the FCHVs
- Coordinate with health facility and FCHVs to fix any software/hardware problem on mobile phone
Coordinate and liaise with DPHO /health facility
- Work closely with district program focal persons
- Orient HMIS team on webapp access
- Data comparison with HMIS Report on a monthly basis
- Communicate with the health facility team to validate data and ensure sound performance of FCHVs
Support administrative task
- Review training documents and ensure complete documentation of trainings for financial and administrative purpose
- Assist trainers to maintain sufficient and appropriate documentation of the training activities
- Coordinate with central finance team to ensure smooth functioning of training activities
- Provide technical and administrative support to DPHO, if requested
- Coordinate with and timely report to central finance team on financial and administrative matters
- Maintain documents for administrative and financial record keeping as per the organization’s norms
Support health worker/FCHV training
- Webapp setup before the training plan
- Check the gateway phone before the training in terms of balance, message reply, errors, etc.
- Assist training session as per need
- Accomplish tasks delegated by the Project Manager as per organization’s need
You may also responsible for other duties assigned by the company and supervisor from time to time including travelling within Nepal. The company retains right to change your duties and responsibilities, from time to time, in its sole discretion.
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If this role inspires and intrigues you, please get in touch. For Baitadi, send an email with subject line: “mHealth Project/IT Assistant - Baitadi” and a copy of your current resume, along with a cover letter to Manoj at manoj@medicmobile.org, copying jobs@medicmobile.org. For Banke, send an email with subject line "“mHealth Project/IT Assistant - Banke” and a copy of your current resume, along with a cover letter to Parash at Parash@medicmobile.org, copying jobs@medicmobile.org. Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible, as interviews will be held on a rolling basis until the role is filled. The ideal start date for this position will be May 15, 2017.