Médecins Sans Frontières E-Health Medical Content Advisor Jobs in South Africa
Médecins Sans Frontières E-Health Medical Content Advisor Jobs in South Africa;The E‑Health Medical Content Advisor provides strategic, technical, and operational leadership for the design, governance, implementation, and continuous improvement of medical content across MSF Ubuntu’s digital health ecosystem. The role ensures medical data models, indicators, metadata, terminology, and reporting structures are standardized, evidence‑based, and aligned with MSF intersectional standards and strategic priorities.
The Advisor works closely with the Ubuntu health department, Data Science, Epidemiology, Medical Operations, country programs, and intersectional partners to ensure high‑quality medical data are collected, visualized, analyzed, and used for operational decision‑making, monitoring, research, and strategic planning.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic & Technical Leadership
Lead development, governance, and improvement of medical content in digital health systems.
Define and maintain standardized indicators, datasets, metadata, and reporting structures.
Review requests for new content and coordinate validation with advisors/experts.
Ensure compliance with MSF standards, guidelines, and interoperability principles.
Contribute to digital health strategy, innovation, and policy development.
Conduct portfolio‑level medical data analysis to support operational choices.
Program Support
Provide technical support to country programs on DHIS2, EMRs, and other platforms.
Maintain project‑specific metadata and support system changes.
Develop guidance documents and metadata documentation.
Advise on indicator definitions, reporting, and data interpretation.
Support data quality improvement initiatives and annual reporting processes.
Strengthen routine data use for monitoring and decision‑making.
Data Governance & Analytics
Support implementation of medical data governance frameworks.
Promote harmonization of datasets across MSF Ubuntu programs.
Develop dashboards, visualizations, and reporting tools.
Collaborate to improve data quality, completeness, and consistency.
Contribute to continuous improvement of reporting systems.
Representation & Coordination
Represent MSF Ubuntu in intersectional Digital Health and HIS communities of practice.
Participate in technical working groups on digital health and interoperability.
Collaborate with
external partners, institutions, and developers.
Represent MSF Ubuntu in conferences, workshops, and technical meetings.
Capacity Building & People Management
Support establishment of the E‑Health team.
Develop and deliver training materials, webinars, and workshops.
Mentor program teams on health information management.
Provide second‑line support for medical content queries.
Contribute to organizational learning on digital health and governance.
Qualifications
**Education**
Medical Doctor, Registered Nurse, Clinical Officer, or other relevant health qualification (Essential).
Master’s degree in Public Health, Health Informatics, Epidemiology, Digital Health, or related field (Essential).
**Experience**
Minimum 5+ years in humanitarian or public health programs.
Demonstrated experience with DHIS2, EMRs, or health information systems.
Skilled in medical data management, analysis, and visualization.
Proven supervision, mentoring, and training experience.
Strong commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and continuous learning.
**Competencies**
Technical: DHIS2 configuration, EMRs, HIS, data governance, quality management, indicator development, dashboards, visualization, analysis, Microsoft Office 365, documentation.
Behavioral: Commitment to MSF principles, strategic thinking, service orientation, planning, innovation, teamwork, communication, coaching, cross‑cultural awareness, networking, security awareness.
Languages
Excellent fluency in spoken and written English (Essential).
French or Arabic (Advantage).
How to Apply
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