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Digital Health and DHIS2 Specialist,Reaching every at-risk community and household with malaria services (REACH Malaria) global project

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At a Glance

Location
Zambia, Lusaka Country Program Office
Employment
Full time
Experience
5+ years
Posted
2026-03-19

Key Requirements

Required Skills

PythonRSQL

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years documented practical DHIS2 implementation experience.

At least 3 years of experience with health informatics or digital health work in an international multi-country context

Experience in supporting the roll-out, implementation, and use of digital health tools and applications, including the DHIS2 Android Capture App, ODK, and/or similar systems.

Experience in DHIS2 system configuration and maintenance.

Experience writing queries to interrogate and analyze DHIS2 data (i.e.

using DHIS2 API, SQL, Python, R or other programming languages).

Responsibilities

Support and maintain the multi-country DHIS2 configuration for both desktop and mobile applications.

This includes working with Data sets, Event and Tracker Programs, Indicators, Program indicators, management of Users, User groups, Org Units and Org Units Groups, etc.

Support multi country system administration, maintenance, configuration, analytics, and dashboard development for the REACH project, including the DHIS2 configuration, DHIS2 mobile applications, and other project applications as needed.

Support the creation and maintenance of data validation rules and other data quality checks to improve data quality.

Provide technical assistance and troubleshooting to country program staff to support the use of the web and mobile DHIS2 applications, and associated tools.

Provide technical support to strengthen use of DHIS2 visualizations and dashboards for evidence-based decision-making through the DHIS2 Interpretations app and Data-to-Action approaches.