Health Information System Officer 

Job Description

Solthis is an international health NGO which contributes to the strengthening of health systems to  improve the access to quality care in countries with limited resources and/or with the vulnerable  populations. Solthis is registered and has been operating in Sierra Leone since 2011 where our teams  have been providing comprehensive technical support at both health facility, national and  community levels to improve quality of HIV care. 

From 2022, Solthis will support the implementation of the New Funding Model 3 (NFM3) to  accelerate the achievement of 95-95-95 targets in Sierra Leone by 2024.  

The intervention through quality-oriented capacity building approaches, will complement the  national healthcare workers’ capacity building activities such as on-site training, clinical mentorship,  supportive supervision and coordination planned by the NACP & NAS in the NFM3. It will focus on 

strengthening the capacity of healthcare workers (HCW) (at Health Facilities (HF) and Key Population  Drop-In Centers (DIC)) levels and DHMT staff to provide quality of HIV services delivery including  prevention, HTS, ART, eMTCT, DSD, EID, Viral Load, TB/HIV etc. It will also strengthen the Supply  chain management and laboratory component to improve the accessibility and availability of HIV  commodities at health facilities and DICs, and to support DHMT to allocate the available resources  in the best possible way to minimize service provision disruption. Finally, the intervention will  support Data management system and usage of data to improve HIV related indicators. The  intervention will be implemented in seven districts including Wester Area (Rural and Urban, Port  Loko, Bombali, Tonkolili, Bo and Kenema Districts) 

Under the supervision of the Health Information System Manager, the Health Information System  Officer will support HCWs and DHMTs for the proper use of national data collection tools, and  supervision/analysis tools and methodologies, at facility and district levels. Some of the main  responsibilities will be: 

Mission 1: capacity building of HCWs and DHMTs for data collection, management and analysis 

• Assess the HIS gaps, identify data quality challenges and design interventions to strengthen  capacities, including knowledge and skills of professionnals involved in data collection and  management of HIV care services 
• Facilitate trainings to strengthen healthcare and M&E workers capacities on data collection  and reporting tools use and data analysis and visualization in collaboration with national  stakeholders and DHMTs  
• Conduct mentoring, on the job training and supportive supervision focusing on record &  documentation, reporting and data usage, in collaboration with DHMTs 
• Support the Solthis Medical Teams and HCW in the monthly and quarterly data collection  process at the facility level 
• Provide support to health care workers during reporting period to ensure summary reports  are of accurate and of quality and reported on time 

Mission 2: coordination with and technical assistance to DHMTs 

• Liaised with DHMT and NACP to ensure the availability of patient registers and monthly  reporting tools at health facility. 
• Randomly attend monthly in charges and coordinating partners meeting to support HIV  focal person 

Mission 3: Data management, monitoring, evaluation and learning 

• Analyse data collected and contribute to data quality with audit 
• Ensure feedback on the data collected at the different levels of the health pyramid in order  to improve practices 
• Support project team members in the use of the M&E tools and in the organization of data  collection activities, particularly with regard to the scores adapted, 
• Provide support to DHMT M&Es and HIV focal person to analyze reports coming from health facility and data entry into the DHIS2.

Mission 4: project management,  

• Contribute to the update of project management documents (action plan, project  narratives, etc.) and to other programming exercises 
• Contribute to the internal monthly reporting process as well as donor reports • Participate in the knowledge and experience capitalization process 

Skills required

How to apply? 

Starting date: As soon as possible 

Project duration: 5 months  

Salary & benefits: According to professional experience and Solthis salary grid Solthis  Submission of applications: Please send your application in English (CV in PDF, cover letter in PDF, references,  dates of availability) to the Deputy Admin Finance Manager: 

recrutement@solthis.org , quoting reference “HIS Officer”, by Febuaray 04, 2024. 

The position is opened to Sierra Leonean exclusively. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply This non-contractual document is subject to change according to the needs of the service Solthis reserves the right to close any vacancy before the advertised deadline. Thank you for your understanding.