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• Build working relationships with people at
  all levels over a wide range of disciplines and cultures.
• Daily healthcare data collection at all
  three health centres in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement and its community
  outreach programs.
• Prepare weekly and monthly reports.
• Apply technical knowledge and skills to
  implement and/or assist in community delivery of program activities.
• Maintain respectful and constructive
  relations with staff and partner staff.
• Work closely with other RMF health and
  technical staff to ensure a sensitive, functional and accurate health
  information data system.
• The Data Clerk will assess and analyze the
  data sand thus needs of persons of concern in the Bidibidi Refugee
  Settlement in a participatory manner, using an Age, Gender and Diversity
  (AGD) perspective to form a firm basis for planning.
• Ensure data is available in both hard and
  soft copy.
• Develop systems to efficiently store and
  protect healthcare data.
• Ability to locate and retrieve data
  swiftly and effectively.
• Process healthcare data and enter in
  alignment with Uganda MOH/UNHCR/RMF formats.
• Ensure timely reporting data at facility
  level and zonal level; check completeness and errors of the reporting data
  according to instructions.
• Provide routine field visits,
  communication/feedback to facilities/partners on the data completeness,
  errors, as well as other quality issues.
• Compile the cleaned monthly summary data
  to the designed database.
• Actively contribute to the preparation of
  progress and donor reports of program results for dissemination at all
  levels.
• Ensure that the RMF health projects are in
  accordance with the established Ministry of Health policies of Uganda and
  international protocols, guidelines and best practices.

• The applicant must also hold an
  Information Technology Diploma or equivalent degree from recognized
  institute.
• The applicants for the Data Clerk jobs
  must be educated to GSCE level or equivalent (including English and Math).
  
• At least three years of relevant
  experience in data entry functions and filing, and related clerical work
  in a health centre III or IV, or hospital setting.
• Excellent working knowledge of MS office
  applications
• Proven experience of data management using
  SPSS and/or Excel
• Experience and understanding of (research)
  data processing and experience of overseeing data processing and
  allocating resources accordingly.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Excellent time management and
  organizational skills to meet a demanding work load.
• Experience working with complex data sets.
• Need to be numerate, accurate and have
  excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent computer skills (Microsoft
  Office Applications). Familiarity with HIS Software is a plus.
• Must be fast and meticulous in entering
  data. Working experience with UN and/or international agencies is
  desirable.
• Applicants should be in alignment with
  Real Medicine Foundation’s values of respect and dignity, its vision of
  ‘Liberating Human Potential’ and ‘Empowering Local Leadership,’ and its
  mission of providing humanitarian support to people living in disaster and
  poverty-stricken areas, focusing on the person as a whole by providing
  medical/physical, emotional, social, and economic support.
• Languages: Excellent knowledge
  of English and good working knowledge of one additional Ugandan language.

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