Monitoring & Evaluation IT Officer at NACOSA

• The M&E IT Officer will add critical skills to the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) team as S/he will provide high IT skills and act as a link between M&E and IT service providers. The person will build a strategy for the governance of all data. S/he assists in creating links between IT, strategy and statistics. S/he will fulfill the following duties: data governance, IT controls, IT security, IT support, application service provider liaison, and product setup. 

The key performance areas of the role are:

• Creating and enforcing policies for effective data management from data collection, through data storage, and into analytics reporting.
• Understanding, maintaining, and enhancing the data system requirements within the Global Fund (GF) grant.
• Act as the main point of contact between NACOSA and various IT services providers for data management system related issues.
• Support data analysis, when necessary, in order to determine root cause of data challenges in the system.
• Lead the setup of business rules with IT service providers meeting GF and other data management expectations.
• Ensure the correctness of the scripts (typically python, SQL, and JavaScript) used by IT service providers to extract, manipulate, and present data.
• Understand the competencies of the system tools the data required to meet the business users’ requirements.
• Understand the workflows within and between applications.
• Conduct comparative cost analysis on quotations versus products offered.
• Contribute to processes, procedures and governance to manage the IT service providers.
• Ensure maintenance of security protocols and analytics.
• Support and ensure data governance processes are followed.
• Ensure compliance with data governance standards such as PoPIA, GDPR, and any other relevant standards.
• Establish data as a product that is consumable by different parts of the organisation.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Data Science or relevant field
• Minimum of 2 years’ proven experience in IT and data management
• Experience in health data and monitoring and evaluation, experience in the social development sector is preferred.
• Experience with SQL, Python, and JavaScript is preferred.
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook)
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently in a fast-paced, high stress environment.
• An analytical mindset with problem solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Process driven with the ability to perform duties in a structured environment.
• Ability to act with integrity and honesty in the performance of all functions.
• Results-oriented, professional, accountable and proactive
• Demonstrated ability to drive high quality data management processes.
• Valid unendorsed driver’s license and minimum 2 years driving experience.

Closing date for submission of applications 27 May 2023