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Data Entry, Lilongwe , Malawi

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI – formerly the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative) under the leadership of former President William Jefferson Clinton III, has worked since 2002 to reduce the pricing of HIV/AIDS medicines and tests, and to work with governments around the world to further turn the tide on the disease by building the systems needed to deliver care and treatment.

In 2006, CHAI signed an MOU with the Malawi government to strengthen health systems in the most challenged districts, provide national support to HIV/AIDS drug pricing and programmatic work, support the pilot and scale-up of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) initiatives, expand access to ART for children, strengthen Malawi’s lab system, and scale up an integrated nutrition program for children. CHAI’s support to Malawi has expanded to include Human Resources for Health, Vaccines, and Health Financing.

CHAI’s new eMTCT Program combines approaches that address both facility and community-level barriers to access, retention and adherence to integrated ART/PMTCT/MNCH services for HIV-positive mothers and their infants. The PRIME Study in Mangochi and Salimadistricts,compares the impact and cost-effectiveness of using mother-infant-pair (MIP) clinics in improving retention of mother-infant pairs on PMTCT care and their quality of care. MIP clinics have been found to improve uptake of high-quality care, by providing integrated HIV and MNCH services under one roof, including education, counselling and psychosocial support for HIV positive mothers. This program is seeking operationally-focused and research oriented individuals to enable the research findings in implementation of this program to inform the national eMTCT strategy.

CHAI is seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual to be involved in preparation of source documents (CRFs) ready for data entry, Data entry to the study specialized database and excel sheets,and verification of the data and maintaining confidentiality as per the PRIME Study standard operating procedures on data entry and processing, documentation and verification, managing source documents, data transfer and physical and electronic storage of data and confidentiality, as well as Good Clinical Practice.The data entry clerk may also be called on to assist with other duties in the office, including administrative and financial duties.  The Data Entry Clerk will report directly to the M&E Manager.
Responsibilities:
  • Preparation of  source data for entry into the OpenMRS database by reviewing the case report forms to identify incomplete, inconsistent or illegible information and compiling and sorting the CRFs to establishing entry priorities as per Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on physical and electronic storage of CRFs and confidentiality.
  • Processing of Participants CRFs by reviewing data for deficiencies; resolving discrepancies as per PRIME Study SOP on handling data queries or returning incomplete CRFs to the M&E Manager for resolution.
  • Entering of the participants CRFs into the OpenMRS database according to the data entry and processing SOP.
  • Verification of entered Participants data by doing double data entry of the CRFs to achieve accuracy
  • Entry of handwritten checklists and field notes to excel spreadsheets
  • Maintaining the confidentiality of the data being entered by following the PRIME Study SOPs on maintaining confidentiality of study participants’ data
  • Responsible for daily backup of the OpenMRS database and any other study data according to protocols
  • Responsible for making sure that the computer hosting the database is always working and reporting any problem with the computer
  • Office administrative and financial tasks
  • Perform any other duties as assigned by the M&E Manager
Qualifications:
  • Diploma in Information Technology, information systems, business administration, or related field;
  • 1+ years of experience in data entry.
  • Experience with Microsoft Excel
  • Proven ability to learn new things quickly, attention to detail, making independent decisions, maintaining confidentiality and very good typing and computer skills.
  • Proven ability to “hit the ground running” with minimal supervision, learning new software
  • Team player, able to work flexibly, and take directions from manager
  • Must be willing to be based full time in Mangochi district.
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