About Us

Futures Group develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence-based solutions to improve the health and well being of people around the world. Since 1971, we have assisted governmental and non-governmental agencies, foundations, and the private sector by designing, implementing and evaluating programs in HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, population and family planning, maternal and child health, infectious diseases, and gender. Futures Group has deep expertise in policy and advocacy, research and strategic information, health markets and private sector engagement, modeling and economic analysis, patient monitoring and management/HMIS, strategic consulting, and program management.
Project Summary

Futures Group is bidding on an upcoming USAID proposal that will focus on strengthening the MOH and local partners to use strategic information for decision making. Monitoring and using strategic information is critical to provide high quality care and treatment regimens, ensure drug durability, track progress, and provide accurate reporting to both the NMOH and US Government.

PEPFAR has called for immediate, comprehensive and evidence based action to turn the tide of global HIV/AIDS and one of the specific goals is to strengthen and expand Strategic Information (SI) activities. Objectives of this project are:
• Strengthen the capacity of the MOH to effectively manage strategic information systems;
• Develop an expanded and comprehensive health map platform;
• Support the implementation of a comprehensive Health Management Information System (HMIS);
• Improve data quality and applied data use within GOH data reporting chains

Position Summary

The Chief of Party (CoP) will provide technical leadership to the Implementing Partners and MOH to strengthen capacity to effectively implement and manage strategic information systems and use data for decision making. The COP will provide technical expertise to improve HMIS and ensure that local requirements are met within the systems. The COP will ensure a coordinated approach to implementation of health informatics that integrates data collection, data quality, reporting, and data use. The COP will assist in the development of a framework for the integration of interoperable electronic systems resulting in improved access to data and streamlined reporting processes. He/she will be responsible for improving and harmonizing information systems that are user friendly and assisting to develop and implement a national HMIS/Informatics strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee senior technical managers responsible for delivering services in specific task areas.
• Regularly communicate with the donor and be ultimately responsible for partners’ performance.
• Oversee project management including planning activities, management of partner relationships, budgets, and reporting deliverables.
• Work closely with a wide array of stakeholders at the national, state, and local levels and gain consensus among key stakeholders.
• Establish positive working relationships with partners and to lead the process ensuring that the end results are achieved
• Support the development of a national HMIS strategy to include a plan for implementing comprehensive HMIS, health map, and improved data quality and use
• Help drive the direction of national strategic information to include innovative technologies to improve data capture and management. Data storage, security and privacy as well as access policies should be among the key areas to address.
• Ensure systems publish standards including data dictionaries and business rules
• Provide training and technical assistance and development of curriculum as required; provide training support via web, online, and virtual teleconference calls as required.
• Participate in weekly teleconference calls and emails; maintain strong relationships with MOH and key stakeholders.
• Tasks could include: software requirements gathering ( which needs requirements documentation, role/data flow diagram, data dictionary, data entry flow, state diagram, use cases, reports business rules, storyboard, and calculation examples; provide reporting status updates; and development of test plan and test cases).

It is expected that the COP is flexible to adapt to scope and activity changes and a fast paced development environment

Essential Job Functions

• Responsible for managing staff and deliverables
• Reviewing current HMIS operations in Haiti and analyzing Haiti HMIS needs in measurable deliverables
• With the technical monitor and the contracts department of Futures Group, the COP will coordinate outsourcing/subcontracting specialized functions relating to the project and managing small grants awarded herein
• In implementation, the project manager will ensure project deliverables are delivered within scope, quality, cost (budget) and time constraints and project is within corporate and regulatory limits
• Coordinate communications/linkages internal and external to the project
• Monitoring and controlling all project activities including measuring the current project activities, monitoring the project variables including cost and effort against the project plan and performance baseline and identifying corrective actions to circumvent issues and risks
• Financial analysis of the costs and budgets including outsourced services on a regular basis to be shared with Futures administration
• Coordinate closing efforts ensuring sustainability and proper handing over to the MOH and local partners

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree in public health or health statistics, or medical informatics with strong programming background
• Requires spoken and written fluency in English and French, Creole a plus; and computer literacy
• Analytical skills and knowledge of project management principles to manage projects, meet deadlines, and work with multi-disciplinary teams
• IT background including infrastructure software/hardware engineering, design and management and strong computer programming skills
• At least 10-15 years’ experience in strategic information and experience in Haiti a plus
• Has extensive experience in developing and managing informatics solutions (in the health sector) including experience in web and database technologies e.g. aspx and sql server respectively
• Has experience in managing grants (with USG) and can work in a multi-sectoral environment
• Has experience in monitoring technical innovative solutions following the USG ADS548R guidelines
• Has proven experience in leadership of informatics solutions and grants management especially in Haiti
• Domestic travel – up to 25%

Skills Required

• Project Management

• The ability to work well as part of multi-disciplinary team; skilled in trouble shooting and problem solving

• Verbal and writing skills are required to produce user manuals, training materials, programming specifications, email correspondence and documentation related to programming; training experience preferred

• Visual Studio, TFS, Microsoft .NET, MsAccess, SQL, SQL Server, MySQL

• International experience (Haiti) preferred and commitment to work in a team environment required

• Excellent communication skills

Physical Demands


• Regularly required to stand or sit, and move about the facility

Work Environment


• Usual office working conditions free of disagreeable elements.

Futures Group provides equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.