HB Kunene

• Leading a team of Data Managers, Data Analysts and Data Engineers providing technical support across different projects
• Working with Project Managers to identify the Level of Effort (LOE) required for the Data Science team to meet the deliverables of the projects
• Participate in stakeholder engagement and requirements gathering in conjunction with the Business Analyst
• Provide technical advice and support to stakeholders regarding the product or solution provided to them
• Provisioning of Data Science Coordinator services to manage a group of data managers that manage databases with wide-ranging obligations, including but not limited to the responsibility for supervision, quality control, and mentorship, as detailed below:

coordination of designated staff with respect to project functions and reporting; providing required management, supervisory and administrative support; assisting with the induction and training of new employees; timeous delivery of project deliverables; liaison with project funders and clients, including but not limited to attending meetings as instructed by the HISP-SA Project Manager, submitting reports and any related obligations; Conducting regular performance appraisals for the team;

• Providing project management services (as a Data Science Technical Lead) for the following projects:

Africa CDC Saving Lives and Likelihood (SLL): Development of dashboards that provide Africa CDC Leadership with real time information on the population fully and partially vaccinated against COVID-19 for different member states. This included tracking of vaccine orders and confirmation of delivery

Safe Surgery: The development of a tracker system for capturing surgeries in real time and ensuring interoperability between the safe surgery patient record and aggregated HMIS is established.

Zambia Evidence 4 Health: The project where an assessment of the Zambian Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) was done. Findings of the assessment were reported, and an HMIS improvement plan was developed. Implementation plans were developed to motivate the Ministry of Health to implement the suggested changes.

Millennium Challenge Cooperation (MCC) Lesotho Health System Strengthening: An assessment of the digital health solutions that are in use in Lesotho and suggestions for improvements that need to be made. A research protocol, which was approved by the Committee of Ethics before the assessments took place, was developed. Assessments were done in line with the research protocol.

• Leading a team of Data Managers, Data Analysts and Data engineers and providing technical support across different projects
• Working with Project Managers to identify the Level of Effort (LOE) required for the Data Management team to meet the deliverables of the projects
• Providing technical support for the use of District Health Information System and related software;
• Provisioning of data manager coordinator services to manage a group of data managers that manage databases with wide-ranging obligations, including but not limited to the responsibility for supervision, quality control, and mentorship, as detailed below:

coordination of designated staff with respect to project functions and reporting; providing required management, supervisory and administrative support; assisting with the induction and training of new employees; timeous delivery of project deliverables; liaison with project funders and clients, including but not limited to attending meetings as instructed by the HISP-SA Project Manager, submitting reports and any related obligations; Conducting regular performance appraisals for the team;

• Providing project management services (as a Data Management Technical Lead) for the following projects:

Ilifa Labantwana: A project where Early Childhood Development Centre partial care registration data was collected from different sources within each province and combined into one report. This involved analysis, identification of errors, and cleaning of the data.

• COVID-19: A COVID-19 database was developed at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic with tight deadlines as there was a need to use the database immediately
• Zambia Evidence 4 Health: The project where an assessment of the Zambian Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) was done. Findings of the assessment were reported, and an HMIS improvement plan was developed.

• Provide technical support to KwaZulu Natal and Eastern Cape Department of Health Provincial Information Officers (PIOs) with regards to DHIS 1.4 and DHIS2 (webDHIS)
• Facilitate trainings for DHIS 1.4 and DHIS2
• Conduct on-site pre-submission workshops with PIOs and sometimes with District Information officers (DIOs)
• Compile pre-submission reports and share with the stakeholders
• Conceptualisation of new DHIS2 instances according to the client’s expectations
• Configuration of new DHIS2 instances according to the client's expectations
• Management of DHIS 1.4 and DHIS2 instances, ensuring that integrity errors are identified and fixed immediately
• Assessment of data quality, providing feedback to the PIOs and DIOs and recommending remedial action
• Projects involved in: Khuphukani – Provincial Support: providing technical support to provinces to be able to produce quality data to submit to the National Department of Health (NDoH). This also included the transition from DHIS 1.4 to DHIS2 in 2016
• SHIS – Patient Experience of Care (PEC): Development of the system based on DHIS2, which made it possible to do an assessment of how the patients both in outpatient/primary health care (PHC) and inpatient departments experienced the health services they received. This included setting up the reporting and data quality matrix.

• Facilitate the collection and submission of quality data from 25 PHC facilities and 2 district hospitals
• Contributing to the compilation of District Health Plan (DHP) Quarterly and Annual reports and other Adhoc reports for the sub-district
• Validation of data received from facilities for onward submission to the District Office
• Compile Pivot reports (raw and indicator) for program Managers for monitoring program performance within the facilities
• Provide support to Data Capturers in PHC facilities and Information Officers in District Hospitals
• Keep all DHIS, Tier.net, PPIP, and ETR.net computers updated with the current version.

• Validation and capturing of data received from wards and departments and making telephonic enquiries to follow up on non-submission of data
• Analyse and interpret data and respond to information requests
• Capturing on Health Information Programs (PTSS, TOP)
• Submission of data to District and Head Office
• Supervision of data capturing staff
• Giving feedback to management
• Facilitating Information meetings and taking and preparing minutes
• Interrogation of Information
• Compiling Monthly, Quarterly and Annual Reports to present to Management for decision-making and for submission to the district office
• Providing secretarial services to the CEO in the absence of the CEO’s secretary Collecting, capturing, and reporting on National Tertiary Service Grant data.

• Validation and capturing of data received from wards and departments, making telephonic enquiries to follow up on non-submission of data
• Analyse and interpret data and respond to information requests
• Capturing on Health Information Programs (PTSS, TOP)
• Submission of data to District and Head Office
• Administrative duties (Filing, Typing, Faxing, and attending to the District Office’s queries.) Providing secretarial services to the CEO in the absence of the CEO’s secretary