Background

The Center for Impact, Innovation and Capacity Building for Health Information Systems and Nutrition (CIICHIN) is a research and technical organization committed to advancing data-driven health policies, strengthening health systems, and improving public health outcomes. CIICHIN’s mandate focuses on health information systems strengthening, digital health innovation, applied research, and capacity building to support countries in achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

CIICHIN supports a range of local and international digital health initiatives aimed at improving health information use, strengthening interoperability, and promoting evidence-based decision-making. The organization works with partners to design and implement sustainable and scalable digital health strategies that align with national and global priorities, ensuring that data is effectively used to drive policy and program decisions.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen digital health initiatives with a focus on data use for decision-making
• Provide technical leadership in the design, implementation, and monitoring of digital health strategies
• Support institutional and partner capacity to effectively use digital health data for policy and program improvement
• Lead the assessment and mapping of metadata across key indicators and datasets to support data governance and interoperability
• Facilitate integration of data from national health information systems and project-specific platforms to enable harmonized analytics and reporting
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and harmonization of indicator definitions, metadata standards, and data structures across systems
• Oversee the development and management of data pipelines, ensuring end-to-end data flow, quality assurance, and readiness for analysis

Qualifications

• Master’s degree (or higher) in Health Informatics, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field
• Minimum of 3 years of combined experience in digital health systems strengthening and business analysis within health institutions
• Strong expertise in digital health strategy and system strengthening, data use and evidence generation for decision-making, health information systems and interoperability approaches
• Demonstrated experience supporting digital health initiatives at large scale
• Proven track record in capacity building, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership
• Experience in contributing to or leading grant proposal writing and donor engagement
• Excellent communication, presentation, and partnership management skills

• Strengthen digital health initiatives with a focus on data use for decision-making
• Provide technical leadership in the design, implementation, and monitoring of digital health strategies
• Support institutional and partner capacity to effectively use digital health data for policy and program improvement
• Lead the assessment and mapping of metadata across key indicators and datasets to support data governance and interoperability
• Facilitate integration of data from national health information systems and project-specific platforms to enable harmonized analytics and reporting
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and harmonization of indicator definitions, metadata standards, and data structures across systems
• Oversee the development and management of data pipelines, ensuring end-to-end data flow, quality assurance, and readiness for analysis

• Master’s degree (or higher) in Health Informatics, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field
• Minimum of 3 years of combined experience in digital health systems strengthening and business analysis within health institutions
• Strong expertise in digital health strategy and system strengthening, data use and evidence generation for decision-making, health information systems and interoperability approaches
• Demonstrated experience supporting digital health initiatives at large scale
• Proven track record in capacity building, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership
• Experience in contributing to or leading grant proposal writing and donor engagement
• Excellent communication, presentation, and partnership management skills