E-Health Medical Content Advisor
Médecins Sans Frontières
- Location:
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Grade:
- HQ Grade 9
- Category:
- Professional Staff
Posted Aug 10, 2026Apply by Aug 25, 2026 (2d left)
See your match score & applyThe 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, clinical terminology, and reporting structures are standardized, evidence-based, and aligned with MSF standards to support operational decision-making and program monitoring.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development, governance and continuous improvement of medical content within MSF Ubuntu digital health systems.
- Define and maintain standardized medical indicators, datasets, metadata, clinical terminology and reporting structures.
- Review requests for new medical content and determine technical feasibility, operational relevance and alignment with organizational standards.
- Coordinate medical content validation and approval processes involving technical advisors and subject matter experts.
- Ensure medical content complies with MSF intersectional standards, medical guidelines and interoperability principles.
- Collaborate with Data Science, Epidemiology and Digital Health teams to strengthen health information systems and data governance.
- Contribute to organizational digital health strategy and innovation initiatives.
- Participate in development of digital health policies, standards and governance frameworks.
- Conduct medical data analysis at portfolio level during planning and reporting cycle supporting Ubuntu medical operational choices and programming priorities.
- Provide technical support to country programs regarding implementation and use of medical content within DHIS2, EMRs and other digital platforms.
- Maintain project-specific metadata according to changing program needs.
- Support system changes, testing and deployment of medical content updates.
- Develop and maintain data collection guidance documents and metadata documentation.
- Provide expert advice on indicator definitions, reporting requirements and data interpretation.
- Support implementation of data quality improvement initiatives.
- Participate in software upgrades, user acceptance testing and rollout of new system functionality.
- Coordinate annual reporting processes including organizational indicators and strategic reporting requirements.
- Support programs in strengthening routine data use for monitoring, quality improvement and evidence-based decision-making.
- Support Med-Ops cell/s and country programs in medical programming data analysis and strategic discussions.
- Support implementation of medical data governance frameworks.
- Promote standardization and harmonization of medical datasets across MSF Ubuntu programs.
- Develop dashboards, visualizations and reporting tools that improve interpretation of medical data.
- Support analysis of routine health information for operational monitoring.
- Collaborate with Data Science and Epidemiology teams to improve data quality, completeness and consistency.
- Support development of indicator frameworks for monitoring program performance.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of data standards and reporting systems.
- Represent MSF Ubuntu within MSF intersectional Digital Health, DHIS2 and Health Information System Communities of Practice.
- Participate in technical working groups related to digital health, health information systems and interoperability.
- Coordinate medical content development with advisors across technical disciplines.
- Collaborate with external partners, academic institutions and software developers where appropriate.
- Represent MSF Ubuntu in digital health conferences, workshops and technical meetings.
- Support in establishing the E-health team in the upcoming years.
- Develop and maintain training materials on medical content and digital health systems.
- Deliver webinars, workshops and user training on medical data collection, reporting and data use.
- Mentor program teams on best practices in health information management.
- Support onboarding of new users and technical advisors.
- Provide second-line support for medical content related queries.
- Contribute to organizational learning on digital health and data governance.
Requirements
- Medical Doctor, Registered Nurse, Clinical Officer or other relevant health qualifications (Essential).
- Master’s degree in public health, Health Informatics, Epidemiology, Digital Health, Health Information Systems or related field (Essential).
- Minimum 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian or public health programs (Essential).
- Demonstrated experience developing, implementing and working with DHIS2 and/or Electronic Medical Records and/or Health information systems, including medical indicators, metadata, and reporting systems (Essential).
- Experience and skilled in medical data management, analysis and visualization (Essential).
- Proven experience in supervision, mentoring, and trainings skills.
- Demonstrated experience in supervision, mentoring, and training.
- Strong commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and continuous learning.
- Strong knowledge of DHIS2 configuration and metadata.
- Understanding of Electronic Medical Records and health information systems.
- Medical data governance.
- Data quality management.
- Indicator development.
- Dashboard development and data visualization.
- Health data analysis.
- Microsoft Office 365.
- Excellent documentation skills.
- Excellent fluency in spoken and written English (essential); French or Arabic (An Advantage).
Skills
- Medical Doctor
- Registered Nurse
- Clinical Officer
- Public Health
- Health Informatics
- Epidemiology
- Digital Health
- Health Information Systems
- Humanitarian Health
- DHIS2 Configuration
- Electronic Medical Records
- Medical Data Management
- Medical Data Analysis
- Data Visualization
- Medical Data Governance
- Data Quality Processes
- Indicator Development
- Dashboard Development
- Supervision and Mentoring
- Training Delivery
- MS Office 365
- Documentation Skills
Languages
English, French, Arabic