Job Vacancies @ Systems for Development (S4D) – 3 Positions

Systems for Development (S4D) is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Project Manager
2.) Health Information System Architect
3.) Job Vacancy For Health Information System Integration Analyst

See job details and how to apply below.

1.) Project Manager

The Service Delivery Innovation Strategic Initiative was approved by the Global Fund Board to support the achievement of the Global Fund’s 2017-2022 Strategy to build resilient and sustainable systems for health (RSSH). It aims to support innovations that strengthen health service delivery and improve HIV, TB, and malaria outcomes. Under this objective, the Global Fund is providing support to the Government of Ghana (GoG) to increase the use of data to manage its supply chain operations for improved efficiency and increased impact. This will be done through facilitating the implementation of MoH and GHS framework that will ensure implementation of quality data production mechanisms and establishment of a culture of data use in all supply chain management decision-making and performance management.

Systems for Development (S4D), a US-based leading consultancy firm focused on transforming organizational performance through sustainable information and communication technology, is seeking a Project Manager to support this work.

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As part of developing the data structure and implementing the Ghana public health supply chain Information Exchange (HIE) platform to ensure quality data production and systems interoperability, S4D will establish a data management framework and lead the design, configuration, and implementation of an HIE. This will enable MoH to capture, process, and use quality data while ensuring all applications within the eco-system talk to each other, reducing redundancy and cost of operation. The Project Manager will be responsible for the Roadmap and Delivery of the Ghana MoH/GHS public health supply chain data management strategy and implementation of the HIE platform. S/He will lead the establishment of data production and use strategies in the entire supply chain as well as lead the visualizing and designing of an MoH/GHS enterprise HIE framework. The project manager will ensure that the right deliverables from data architecture, design, and analytics meet the MoH/GHS operational data needs. S/He will lead demand and delivery of the solutions needed to realize this vision. In addition, S/He will ensure that the Operations function is well set up to manage these solutions in the MoH/GHS capacity. S/He should have a sound understanding of public health supply chain data needs, and data industry best practices including the DAMA International's Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK) and the Data Management Maturity Model (DMM) evaluation process. S/He should have a sound understanding of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures for data exchange and data management within the healthcare industry, knowledge of healthcare IT and government programs, and experience with health IT data format and transport standards including HL7, FHIR, RESTful APIs.

Job Title: Project Manager

Job Location: This is a long-term position based in Accra, Ghana. Interested applicants outside Ghana are however encouraged to also apply.

Company Name: Systems for Development (S4D)

Job Description:

To ensure effective data production and use on all S4D systems-relatedprojects, the project manager will take overall leadership of the data management, production, and utilization, and implementation of the HIE by performing the following activities:

• Manage the overall implementation of the Data Management Project and HIE platform planning and implementation throughout the project lifecycle, from Project initiation to the closing phase.
• Continuously monitor progress against set objectives for achieving the Data Management Model (DMM) on Institutional Level as defined in the DMM and in line with the recent decision for implementation
• At the project’s initiation, establish the project brief and the overall business case for data management, considering both the overall implementation cost as well as the (transversal) synergies to be achieved by each of the functional areas by 2023
• Monitor HIE platform implementations for accuracy and timeliness to ensure the focus on successfully achieving the project goals including compliance
• Develop a detailed understanding of the MoH supply chain IT Plan and IT Stakeholders, specifically focusing on the HIE
• Initiate, facilitate, coordinate, and report for the regular ‘Assess and Adjust’ process to update and adjust the consolidated data management roadmap across business areas in line with the level of achievement over the past period, the changing environment, and institutional objectives, and update/maintain the overall business case and roll-forward consolidated roadmap for MoH/GHS public supply chain.
• Manage and monitor the evolution of the project scope, time, and cost. Ensure project management is in compliance with the Project Management Framework and monitors and controls the subsequent phases of the project according to the objectives set by the project Steering Committee.
• Ensure that the scope and timeline of the project and each of its subcomponents are realistic while securing the expected benefits and objectives
• Project manages the onboarding of new data partners and users; processes terminations as needed.
• Provide day-to-day management of HIE operations and activities, including system audits, technical assistance, client support, training, and utilization reports, and assistance in planning and implementing the architecture for HIE expansion.
• Define and operate an adequate project governance structure by continuously evaluating various risk parameters and organizing, preparing, conducting, coordinating, facilitating, and reporting on all project management activities necessary to achieve the project’s objectives and ensuring project controls are documented and recorded accordingly.
• Maintain a global view of the project progress, as well as a detailed view of the status of individual deliverables.
• Report on project development/changes, identify decisions requiring validation and prepare relevant documents for the Steering Committee.
• Escalate the project’s issues and risks to the Steering Committee and ensure that mitigating actions are undertaken and effectively monitored.
• Establish and operate proper change management, internal communication, and mobilization around the Data Management Project in close liaison with all functional areas’ stakeholders at all Directorate levels.
• Consider any initiatives/projects running in parallel, which might either be a prerequisite or a dependency on the Data Management Model and its implementation and address any impact these might have on the data management project.
• Ensure a proper degree of quality assurance by reviewing the project documentation and deliverables for completeness and quality, to achieve the overall project goals.
• Facilitate the design and establishment of the future MoH/GH Data Management Organizational Structure
• Advice on leading practices and emerging trends in Data Management and HIE architecture.

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Qualification Required & Experience

• Advanced university degree; specialized certification and/or training in project management, change management, or risk management an asset.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in a multinational organization working on global scale projects.
• Strong familiarity with the public health environment and HIE services and products.
• Develop a detailed understanding of the State Medicaid Health IT Plan and Health IT Stakeholders, specifically focusing on the HIE.
• Leverage HIE capabilities and resources to support MoH public health improvement strategies.
• Proven and successful track record in leading projects and implementing organizational change in international organizations.
• Proven prior experience in global implementation and transformation projects in data management, and capable to provide input and advice on leading practice and emerging trends in Data Management.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Demonstrated experience in managing multiple projects effectively while facilitating group success.
• Provide day-to-day management of HIE operations and activities, including system audits, technical assistance, client support, training, and utilization reports, and assistance in planning and implementing the architecture for HIE expansion.

Desired Key Skills:

• Influential leader to energize the delivery team and maintain momentum
• Must be result-oriented; takes commitments and deadlines seriously
• Self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision and independently
• Demonstrates a sense of passion and pride in own work. Positive attitude and adapts well to change. Inspires passion and excitement around shared goals.
• PRINCEII, Agile/Scrum qualifications
• Previous gaming experience would be beneficial, but not essential
• Experience in regulated sectors, and high compliance environments preferred
• Solid experience in managing end-to-end data projects
• Experienced in agile ways of working, able to provide coaching and training to others in this approach to upskill colleagues
• Work as part of a flexible, committed, and active team to continuously deliver high-quality solutions and outcomes in a rapid delivery environment based on realistic but aggressive task delivery schedules
• Proven experience in the delivery of Data Production and Use projects using Agile and DMBOK guided approaches and tools
• Proven skills in Modern Data Warehousing techniques and Data Platform solutions
• Experience in defining methods, standards, best practices, and QA processes for project delivery
• Experience in Recruitment as well as Resource and People Management
• Experience in Stakeholder Management
• Experience in Public Health Supply Chain Management
• Desire to collaborate with internal teams, Global functions, and stakeholders to deliver great outcomes in the most effective way

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

To apply, kindly submit your application to:

hrmanagement@s4dconsulting.net No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted.

Closing Date: 12 August, 2022

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2.) Health Information System Architect

The Service Delivery Innovation Strategic Initiative was approved by the Global Fund Board to support the achievement of the Global Fund’s 2017-2022 Strategy to build resilient and sustainable systems for health (RSSH). It aims to support innovations that strengthen health service delivery and improve HIV, TB, and malaria outcomes. Under this objective, the Global Fund is providing support to the Government of Ghana (GoG) to increase the use of data to manage its supply chain operations for improved efficiency and increased impact. This will be done through facilitating the implementation of MoH and GHS framework that will ensure implementation of quality data production mechanisms and establishment of a culture of data use in all supply chain management decision-making and performance management.

Systems for Development (S4D), a US-based leading consultancy firm focused on transforming organizational performance through sustainable information and communication technology, is seeking a Health Information System (HIS) Architect to support this work.

As part of developing the Ghana public health supply chain information exchange platform, S4D will work with the key MoH and its agencies stakeholders to implement a data exchange platform that will enable the integration of multiple systems that support public health supply chain management and provide the capability to bring together multiple data sets for data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics. The HIS architect will be responsible for leading the design, configuration, and implementation of the Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform. S/He will identify HIE adoption levers, barriers, and success factors. S/He will lead the translation of business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases, and data warehouses. S/He will be a senior visionary who translates business requirements into technology requirements and define data standards and principles. The HIS architect will be responsible for visualizing and designing an MoH/GHS enterprise HIE framework. This framework will describe the processes used to plan, specify, enable, create, acquire, maintain, use, archive, retrieve, control, and purge all Ghana MoH supply chain data. S/He will also lead the development of integrated designs to meet HIE requirements and align with the MoH/GHS enterprise strategy and related business architecture as guided by the OpenHIE framework.S/He should have a sound understanding of architecture, design, and development of data warehouse and business intelligence solutions.

Job Title: Health Information System Architect

Job Location: This is a long-term position based in Accra, Ghana. Interested applicants outside Ghana are however encouraged to also apply.

Company Name: Systems for Development (S4D)

Job Description:

• To ensure effective implementation of the HIE platform, the HIS architect will take leadership of the HIE design, configuration, and implementation by performing the following activities:
• Lead the development of Ghana MoH/GHS public health supply chain HIE platform
• Identifying HIE adoption levers, barriers, and success factors
• Establish and implement Ghana public health HIE user adoption, change management, and facility onboarding plans, processes, methodologies, and capabilities
• Lead the translation of business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases, and data warehouses
• Define the data HIE framework, standards, and principles, including modeling, metadata, security, reference data such as product codes and facility categories, and master data such as sites, vendors, materials, and employees
• Define HIE adoption metrics (number of users, number of times HIE is launched, data volumes, etc.)
• Identify leading practices for the adoption of HIEs
• Architect, build, test, and validate integration and EDI solutions and ancillary applications including complex HIE and integration solutions
• Support development and implementation of adoption framework for all end users and key stakeholders
• Assist with providing technical architecture guidance across the engineering lifecycle (analyze, design, build, test, deploy and support)
• Participate and assist in the introduction of new capabilities and the enhancement or troubleshooting of existing capabilities
• Assist in the development of detailed designs, data flow diagrams, and everything in between.
• Responsible for effectively managing the HIE connectivity components including the exchange portal and the data interfaces with the various systems
• Troubleshoots connectivity and interface issues and coordinates the correction of those issues.
• Coordinate with MoH and GHS technical teams in defining application requirements and resolving project issues.
• Generate a list of components needed to build the designed system

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Qualification Required & Experience

Desired Skills, Experience, and Qualification Required:

• Minimum Masters’ degree (preferred in IT, System Architecture)
• Working understanding of Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Electronic Health/Medical Record (EMR/EHR) concepts and practice management/electronic health record interfaces to external systems
• Knowledge of HIE interfaces, standards, and functionality
• Knowledge of SQL and SQL Query Technologies
• Knowledge of Database Structures
• Knowledge of Healthcare Data and Technologies (HL7, CCD, FHIR, and others)
• Knowledge of Health Information Mediator
• 3+ years’ experience managing Health Information Technology Activities
• Demonstrated progressive project management experience leading projects requiring an end-to-end Interoperability workflow perspective, effectively managing more than one project, and working independently as well as in a team situation meeting aggressive deadlines
• Have a solid understanding of the cloud, databases, and the applications and programs used by those databases.
• Understands data modeling, including conceptualization and database optimization
• Minimum 4 years of professional experience, preferably in consulting or at high-tech companies
• Strong passion for the following topics – Advanced Data Analytics, System Architecture Data Quality Management
• Understanding Supply Chain Control Towers
• Strong knowledge of Visibility and Analytics Networks
• Ability to develop strategies for data management and data production and use
• Practical knowledge of tools, and architecture frameworks including TOGAF, Zachman, and Open HIE
• Strong knowledge of technology trends across IT and digital and how they can be applied to companies to address real-world problems and opportunities
• Team-oriented and collaborative working style, both with clients and those within the organization
• Growth mindset, positive attitude & strong interest to solve client challenges, adapt to a changing work environment, and dealing with new issues
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

To apply, kindly submit your application to:

hrmanagement@s4dconsulting.net

No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted.

Closing Date: 12 August, 2022

3.) Job Vacancy For Health Information System Integration Analyst

The Service Delivery Innovation Strategic Initiative was approved by the Global Fund Board to support the achievement of the Global Fund’s 2017-2022 Strategy to build resilient and sustainable systems for health (RSSH). It aims to support innovations that strengthen health service delivery and improve HIV, TB, and malaria outcomes. Under this objective, the Global Fund is providing support to the Government of Ghana (GoG) to increase the use of data to manage its supply chain operations for improved efficiency and increased impact. This will be done through facilitating the implementation of MoH and GHS framework that will ensure implementation of quality data production mechanisms and establishment of a culture of data use in all supply chain management decision-making and performance management.

Systems for Development (S4D), a US-based leading consultancy firm focused on transforming organizational performance through sustainable information and communication technology, is seekinga Health Information System Integration Analyst to support this work.

As part of developing the Ghana public health supply chain information exchange platform, S4D will work with key MoH and its agencies stakeholders to implement a data exchange platform that will enable the integration of multiple systems that support public health supply chain management and provide the capability to bring together multiple data sets for data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics. The integration analyst will be responsible for partnering with the key stakeholders to define functional and technical specifications, evaluate various integration options, design integration standards, and prototype and deploy integration solutions for the Health Information Exchange platform. S/He will be responsible for defining and documenting the overall integration architecture and design decisions that meet application architecture. S/He will be responsible for supporting the end-to-end flow of data, including connectivity, data formats, and HIE platforms.

Job Title: Health Information System Integration Analyst

Job Location: This is a long-term position based in Accra, Ghana. Interested applicants outside Ghana are however encouraged to also apply.

Company Name: Systems for Development (S4D)

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Job Description:

To ensure effective implementation of the HIE platform, the integration analyst will perform the following activities:

• Primary owner for the design, build, and maintenance of highly complex interfaces and other data integration elements for the MoH health information exchange platform
• Work with the stakeholders and the HIE lead architect to align on application integration architecture supporting HIE needs.
• Independently resolves the highly complex interface errors and data integration issues
• Functions as a data integration expert on cross-functional projects.
• Advanced understanding of the data flow among applications throughout the HIE architecture
• Works directly with the HIE implementation team to resolve complex data integration issues.
• Evaluate, deploy, and maintain pre-built APIs from other solutions as well as develop custom APIs.
• Make recommendations on state-of-art integration tools and methodologies.
• Be able to troubleshoot and integrate with Database Management Systems
• Unit testing of entire HIE as required for deployment of new systems
• Maintain ongoing assessment, design, development, and implementation of Integration and EDI systems and applications
• Acts as primary technical and subject matter expert addressing problems of system integration and overall compatibility
• Provides direct support for all EDI applications and systems including work queue management, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process monitoring, error analysis, vendor support, and user provisioning
• Applies high-level, specialized data exchange expertise to improve processes and support strategies as well as assist in Interoperability tasks
• Participate in business requirement gathering sessions; collaborate with the Data Analysts on translating business requirements into technical requirements; participate in technical designs and test planning.
• Investigate and resolve issues with existing integration workflows and develop documentation for current and future integrations, including field mappings, transformation rules, flow diagrams, and training materials

Qualification Required & Experience

Desired Skills, Experience, and Qualification Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
• Minimum of two (2) or more years of experience with IHE standards, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and basic knowledge and familiarity with public health systems
• Possesses skills and knowledge of application integration life cycle components, including event triggers, workflow, data transformation, message routing, message queuing approaches, etc.
• Possesses logically structured thinking abilities and can develop sound business cases to support planning and critical decision-making
• Proven expert knowledge of integration engine coding and file manipulation as well as considerable knowledge in vendor and data consumer processes
• Demonstrated proficiency in EDI file structures and processes
• Advanced presentation and facilitation skills
• Proven ability in workflow, data analysis, and design techniques, including needs assessment, and specification development,demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Experience with leading or participating in the gathering and documenting of business processes and requirements for the system with key business users.
• Ability to drive clarity and informed decision-making in the fact of ambiguous or shifting requirements, quantitative methods, planning, and gap analysis.
• Proven track record working with various data exchange systems, and the ability to successfully integrate third-party systems and applications.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

To apply, kindly submit your application to:

hrmanagement@s4dconsulting.net

No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted.

Closing Date: 12 August, 2022

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