Reports To: HMIS Chief of Party
Established in 1971, Futures Group develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence-based solutions to improve the health and well- being of people around the world. We have assisted governmental and nongovernmental agencies, foundations, and the private sector by designing, implementing and evaluating programs in HIV, 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.
Futures Group provides HMIS support to the Government of Kenya (GoK) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Under a new contract, the Futures team provides a range of technical assistance including: support for the continued development and implementation of the national HMIS strategy; improving information flow to guide policy and program decisions; facilitating interoperability between disparate HMIS including specific efforts to harmonize and integrate laboratory, pharmacy, and electronic medical records (EMR) sub-systems; and developing a data warehouse.The clinical consultant located in Kenya will advise and provide technical expertise to the Chief of Party, and the broader project team. The individual will provide guidance and clinical expertise to aid the team in laboratory, disease selection and pharmacy drug mapping during the EMR roll out. The clinical consultant must possess clinical knowledge in mapping the national accredited pharmacy list with laboratory tests. The work requires innovation, often with very little guidance. This work is very technical in nature and knowledge is specialized. The individual must be familiar with the Kenyan health environment and would be required for the most accurate mappings in both laboratory and pharmacy. The successful consultant must be ready to take up the task soonest possible.
 Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Knowledge:A trained Medical Doctor with Postgraduate education, with extensive health facility-anchored skills both as a doctor and as a health informatics expert.Experience on Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ART)Understanding of public health information systems in Kenya, including EMRs.A minimum of 3- 5 years in the development of software systems, testing, solution implementation and training with particular emphasis to health informaticsIQCare knowledge/or experience preferredExperience working with the Ministry of Health, experience with EMRs desired but not requiredExperience in LOINC for laboratories systems, ICD10, HL7, and drug mapping is an added advantageMap the current set of laboratory tests found in EMR systems including IQCare with the LOINC codeMap the current set of HIV diseases found in various EMR systems with the ICD10 codeMap the current set of pharmaceuticals found in EMR systems with the pharmacy national drug codeEquipment to be used: General office equipment; Computers
Must be available for domestic and international travel for up to 30% of the time. 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.

Strategic Information and Tech Associate
Futures Group

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. 

Over the past 40 years, we have assisted governmental and non-governmental agencies, foundations, and the private sector by designing, implementing and evaluating programs in HIV, 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.

Purpose

Futures Group International develops and enhances strategic information (SI) systems at health facilities to collect and track data to improve patient and project outcomes, including reports for the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) indicators, National Ministry of Health (MOH) indicators, and specific project indicators. 

This information is essential to provide high quality care and treatment, procurement activities, tracking progress, providing accurate reporting to both the MOH and US Government and to be used by health facilities for adaptive management.

Position Summary

The Strategic Information and Tech Associate will be responsible for automating collection and reporting of Health Information at health facilities and delivering technical support and supervision. 

She/he will be responsible for ensuring that data reporting is comprehensive, clean and valid, and ensuring the further deployment of IQCare Electronic Medical Records System (EMR) and IQTools to all service delivery outlets in the network. Additionally, the SI and Tech Associate will contribute in HMIS development, through testing, recommending and implementing new system functionality and features. The position is open to Kenyan nationals.

Key Responsibilities

IT troubleshooting and bug reporting at health facilities that have technical difficulties Assist the SI team to remotely connect to the health facilities’ databases Build capacity of local partners to manage, analyze and make use of their data Assist in the capacity building efforts of the strategic information team. Continued development of IQTools and IQCare via 

Programming of SQL queries for all new clinical reports requested by the Clinical lead team and local partners o Programming of IQTools reporting system to incorporate changes in user requirements
Building and designing of data collection forms used in IQCare EMR system
Requirements gathering
Documentation of indicators and systems in use. 

Assist the strategic information team to deploy and manage the IQCare (EMR) rollout and maintenance at health facilities Other responsibilities as neededQualifications

Minimum Requirements

B.Sc. Computer science, 3 years of .NET programming / Microsoft SQL Server database programming experience, Excellent computer skills ( Windows ,SQL, Microsoft Office, networking)Excellent VB.NET,C#,ASP.NET programming, SQL 2005,2008 database programming skills Experience working with Patient Management and Monitoring Systems (PMMS) /HMIS Experience in implementing US Government-funded projects. Have a good understanding of the health systems in Kenya Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge through formal and informal training. Demonstrated ability to work in a team as well as independently Excellent written and oral communication skills. Experience working with and designing/programming tools for health information data entry and reporting Ability to trouble-shoot, manage crisis, and problem solvingRegularly required to stand or sit, and move about the facilityUsual 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.
How to apply:

All applications for this position should be submitted online at www.futuresgroup.com via the Careers page.

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, 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.

Position Summary

The Deputy Strategic Information Advisor will be responsible for automating collection and reporting of Health Information at health facilities and delivering supportive supervision, monitoring and evaluation, and performance reporting, and managing a team of Strategic Information Associates and tracking technical deliverables.

The position will initially run from March 15th 2012 until October 2012 after which the position will be renewed annually. The position is based in Nairobi Kenya.

Key Responsibilities

Coordinate all monitoring and evaluation for a PEPFAR project including Global Health Initiatives (GHI) and Next Generation Indicators (NGI)
Supervise and coordinate the collection of accurate monitoring reports from the health facilities (monthly, quarterly, semiannual and annually) on all required indicators
Support information technology infrastructure and management for data management tools
Coordinate technical SI needs at sites (computers and hardware)
Build the data culture at health facilities to improve data demand and data use
Manage and provide training for data analysis at the service delivery outlets and coordinate technical assistance to sites in the analysis of data to address gaps in the program and services
Help the project to demonstrate that project interventions result in observable and measurable improvement in the quality of HIV care and treatment services and clients served.
Increase LPTF demand for quality information, methods, and tools, and facilitation of information use in decision making
Oversee coordination of data entry and set up SOPs to ensure there is no backlog; ensure that databases are backed-up on routine basis
Build and improve relationships with health facilities and partners
Liaise with prime recipient on routine basis to alert them to challenges and difficulties performing our work; highlight successes
Develop work plans and monitor it on monthly basis in coordination with SI Advisor
Other activities as identifiedQualifications

Technical Experience

Master’s in public health, epidemiology, statistics, or related field with 3-5 years significant experience or Bachelor’s degree with at least 6-10 years extensive experience in Strategic Information/M&E of health programsExperience in clinical setting is preferred
Experience working with Patient Management and Monitoring Systems (PMMS) and monitoring and evaluationAt least 3 years of experience in monitoring of HIV projects; andExperience and familiarity with USG and MOH (e.g. KePMS and DHIS) reporting systems
Familiarity with information dissemination at national and international level
Knowledge and experience in HIV patients’ data analysis and use of statistical data analysis packages e.g: Epi Info, SPSS, CSpro etc.Strong leadership and communication skillsExperience working with and designing tools to support decision making,
Training and workshop facilitation experienceAbility to trouble-shoot, manage crisis, and problem solvingKnowledge of both Swahili and English required
Proven experience in data analysis is requiredAbility or experience in writing abstracts and journal articlesAbility to oversee technical delivery of teamsAbility to develop and track operational plans/ results frameworks / SOWExcellent teamworkExcellent leadership skillsRegularly required to stand or sit, and move about the facilityUsual office working conditions free of disagreeable elements.How to apply:

All applications for this position should be submitted online at http://www.futuresgroup.com/ via the Careers page. 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.

Position: Data Warehouse Senior Technical Manager

Reports To: Chief of Party

Project Description:

Established in 1971, Futures Group develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence - based solutions to improve the health and well- being of people around the world.

We have assisted governmental and non-governmental agencies, foundations, and the private sector by designing, implementing and evaluating programs in HIV, 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.

Futures Group provides HMIS support to the Government of Kenya (GoK) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Under a new contract, the Futures team provides a range of technical assistance including: support for the continued development and implementation of the national HMIS strategy; improving information flow to guide policy and program decisions; facilitating interoperability between disparate HMIS including specific efforts to harmonize and integrate laboratory, pharmacy, and electronic medical records (EMR) sub-systems; and developing a data warehouse.

Position Summary:

The Data Warehouse Senior Technical Manager will advise and provide technical expertise to the Chief of Party, and the broader project team.

This individual will lead the project’s strategy for and implementation of the data warehouse, define the business and information requirements, resolve high-level business and information issues, coach both the HMIS/NASCOP and Futures Group team in the development of the data warehousing solution, provide continuity in all major data warehousing solution decisions, and determine how technology can be applied to meet the client’s needs.

The work requires innovation, often with very little guidance. There is an organizational reliance on the knowledge, initiative and experience of the Data Warehouse Senior Technical Manager. Work is very technical in nature and knowledge is specialized.

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Knowledge:

Demonstrated technical expertise in design, development, deployment and maintaining large data warehouse (DW) or very large databasesDeep technical understanding of data warehouse model and design methodologies, ETL, Data Marts, OLAP, OLTP,Metadata, normalization, 3NF, Dimensions, SCD Slowly Changing Dimensions,Experience in requirements gathering for DW, creating Use Cases, UML , Enterprise Architect, ER Diagrams, Data Dictionary, Test Cases,Demonstrated technical experience integrating different data sources (e.g health, finances, vital statistics, education, planning) from different databases (MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle) while addressing issue of data quality;Strong operational experience in improving in database performance, optimization, data aggregation, SQL queries for coding for interactive dashboards, charts and reportsA minimum of 5 - 7 years’ proven technical experience is requiredDesired Datawarehouse business intelligence (BI) experience, software tools (Business Objects, Cognos, Microstrategy) or any open source BI software tools (Pentaho, JasperSoft, SpagoBI, icCube)Strong understanding of public health information systems in Kenya, including EMRs.Oral and written communication skills, Good writing skills are required to develop and articulate data warehouse strategy and implementation plan and present ideas to various audiencesA university degree in computer science or information technology or any related discipline is required as a minimum, post graduate qualification and /or relevant certification courses will be an added advantageDesign , develop, test, deploy, maintain, large, robust data warehouse at MOHLead technical responsibility for development of national health data warehouse and identified data sourcesLead in design, modeling, architecture of robust data warehouse platform;Lead technical responsibility to integrate data from different data sources (health, finances, vital statistics, education) into data warehouse solutionLead the information gathering and documentation process in consultation with the Ministries of HealthLead in development of data warehousing standards and SOPs , and test casesResolve performance, database issues associated with maintaining and enhancing large data warehouseAdditional Information

Equipment to be used: General office equipment; Computers

Physical demands: N/A

Must be available for domestic and international travel for up to 30% of the time.

All applications for this position should be submitted online at http://www.futuresgroup.com/ via the Careers page before September 27, 2011.

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.

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Job Description

Title: Operations Associate

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Center/Dept: Futures Group Kenya Office

Company Profile

Established in 1971, Futures Group develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence - based solutions to improve the health and well being of people around the world.

We assist 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.

Position Summary

The Operations Associate will be technically accountable to and will assist the Kenya Futures Group Finance Officer achieve all financial, administrative and operational deliverables within Kenya Futures Group scope of works.

Technical Experience

University Degree in Commerce or related field6 months working experience, with knowledge of USG funding mechanism and CPA being an added advantage
Responsibilities

Under the technical supervision of the finance officer:

Prepare Bank reconciliationAssets MaintenanceMaintain the inventory list for all assets purchased per projectEnsure all assets are tagged appropriatelyPrepare transfer letters for any transferred equipmentSolicit 3 quotes for all requisitions as fitFor all RFP place adverts in the national publications as fitPrepare and maintain all vendors filesLocal Hire functions for FXTEs and Consultants:Place advertisement in the local paperPrepare files for the review panel for all candidatesSend all names of the candidates to HQ for Denial ScreeningFor successful candidate send FG standard recruitment documents for completionDistribute Interview packets of CVs, Biodata and FG interview Guide to the interview PanelConfirm interviewees salary history using Salary Verification FormPrepare draft Contracts for review by COP/SD for onward transmission to HQSet up personnel files as well as vendor file (Expense and Travel Report)Obtain VEID from FG Finance and Accounting DepartmentReview all staff timesheet for correctness and forward to COP/SD for signatureMaintain leave, sick, compassionate maternity/Paternity leave records for all staffMaintain stock bins for all purchases as well us keep store room keysMake all travel arrangements for all approved travel which includes hotel, air travel and local running among othersFor workshop and meeting, prepare list of all invitees, affiliates and reimbursement categories as well as the reimbursed amountsAny other duties as required by Chief Of Party or Senior DirectorAll applicants are requested to direct their resume’s to futuresgroupcareers@gmail.com by September 20th 2011 with the email title reading Application for Operations Associate, Futures Group Kenya

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Position: Data Warehouse Consultancy

Reports To: Chief of Party

Project Description:

Established in 1971, Futures Group develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence-based solutions to improve the health and well- being of people around the world.

We assist 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/ health management information systems (HMIS), strategic consulting, and program management.

Futures Group provides HMIS support to the Government of Kenya (GoK) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Under a new contract, the Futures team provides a range of technical assistance including: support for the continued development and implementation of the national HMIS strategy; improving information flow to guide policy and program decisions; facilitating interoperability between disparate HMIS including specific efforts to harmonize and integrate laboratory, pharmacy, and electronic medical records (EMR) sub-systems; and developing a data warehouse.

Position Summary:

The Data Warehouse Consultant will advise and provide technical expertise to the Chief of Party, and broader project team on a short-term basis. The period for this consultancy is not to exceed three (3) months.

This individual will provide expert-level advice and guidance regarding the project’s strategy for and implementation of the data warehouse, define the business and information requirements, assess existing data sources, resolve high-level business and information issues, coach the team in the development of the data warehousing solution, provide continuity in all major data warehousing solution decisions, and determine how technology can be applied to meet the client’s needs.

The work requires innovation, often with very little guidance. There is an organizational reliance on the knowledge, initiative and experience of the Data Warehouse Consultant. Work is very technical in nature and knowledge is specialized. Depending on availability of funding and evolution of this portfolio, this short-term consultancy may evolve into a full-time position in Year 2.

Minimum Qualifications:

Demonstrated experience designing, developing, deploying or maintaining a data warehousing project.A minimum of 5 years expert knowledge in IT domains and other relevant experience is required.A university degree in computer science or information technology (IT) or any related discipline is required as a minimum; post graduate qualification will be an added advantage.Knowledge of various EMR in Kenya.Experience working in all stages of the development life cycle of data warehouse and ETL.5 years Demonstrated experience applying data warehousing tools on at least one other project or work assignment.Demonstrated experience with requirements gathering, documentation, and conceptualization of solutions.Demonstrated experience developing implementation framework for data warehouse.Provides essential skills in Health Integrated Enterprise (HIE) to foster EMR coding of information for interoperability with the data warehouse.Performs needs assessment and conceptual description of the data warehouse including business information requirements and data sources.Assists in the full design and development of the data warehouse interoperability standards, hardware/infrastructure etc.Defines the hardware and infrastructure setup both at the data warehouse level and at client node level for effective data access.Leads in development of data warehousing standards and SOPs on uploading, storage and extraction of data.Assists in identifying strategies to popularize the use and utility of the data warehouse.A broad and extensive knowledge of IT principles, methods and techniques; analytical skills and superior knowledge of project management principles to manage projects and work with multidisciplinary teams.Verbal skills are required to communicate technical information to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise as referenced above.Strong writing skills are required to develop and articulate data warehouse strategy and implementation plan and present ideas to various audiences.Strong understanding of public health and EMR systems in Kenya.Understanding of emerging / new technologies and potential application.Strong background in facilitating and training of health care workers in health related events.Ability to synthesize information and utilize communication approaches to disseminate information.Analytical skills required to conceptualize the development of IT architectures and frameworks.Additional Information:

Equipment to be used: General office equipment; Computers

Physical demands: N/A

Must be available for domestic and international travel for up to 30% time.

To respond to this position, please email your resume and cover letter to futuresgroup@gmail.com with the title position in the subject line of your email before July 15th 2011.

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Position: Data Warehouse Consultancy
Project Description:
Established in 1971, Futures Group develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence-based solutions to improve the health and well- being of people around the world.
We assist 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/ health management information systems (HMIS), strategic consulting, and program management.

Futures Group provides HMIS support to the Government of Kenya (GoK) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Under a new contract, the Futures team provides a range of technical assistance including: support for the continued development and implementation of the national HMIS strategy; improving information flow to guide policy and program decisions; facilitating interoperability between disparate HMIS including specific efforts to harmonize and integrate laboratory, pharmacy, and electronic medical records (EMR) sub-systems; and developing a data warehouse.

The Data Warehouse Consultant will advise and provide technical expertise to the Chief of Party, and broader project team on a short-term basis. The period for this consultancy is not to exceed three (3) months.

This individual will provide expert-level advice and guidance regarding the project’s strategy for and implementation of the data warehouse, define the business and information requirements, assess existing data sources, resolve high-level business and information issues, coach the team in the development of the data warehousing solution, provide continuity in all major data warehousing solution decisions, and determine how technology can be applied to meet the client’s needs.

The work requires innovation, often with very little guidance. There is an organizational reliance on the knowledge, initiative and experience of the Data Warehouse Consultant. Work is very technical in nature and knowledge is specialized. Depending on availability of funding and evolution of this portfolio, this short-term consultancy may evolve into a full-time position in Year 2.

Demonstrated experience designing, developing, deploying or maintaining a data warehousing project.
A minimum of 5 years expert knowledge in IT domains and other relevant experience is required.
A university degree in computer science or information technology (IT) or any related discipline is required as a minimum; post graduate qualification will be an added advantage.
Knowledge of various EMR in Kenya.
Experience working in all stages of the development life cycle of data warehouse and ETL.
5 years Demonstrated experience applying data warehousing tools on at least one other project or work assignment.
Demonstrated experience with requirements gathering, documentation, and conceptualization of solutions.
Demonstrated experience developing implementation framework for data warehouse. Provides essential skills in Health Integrated Enterprise (HIE) to foster EMR coding of information for interoperability with the data warehouse.
Performs needs assessment and conceptual description of the data warehouse including business information requirements and data sources.
Assists in the full design and development of the data warehouse interoperability standards, hardware/infrastructure etc.
Defines the hardware and infrastructure setup both at the data warehouse level and at client node level for effective data access.
Leads in development of data warehousing standards and SOPs on uploading, storage and extraction of data.
Assists in identifying strategies to popularize the use and utility of the data warehouse. A broad and extensive knowledge of IT principles, methods and techniques; analytical skills and superior knowledge of project management principles to manage projects and work with multidisciplinary teams.
Verbal skills are required to communicate technical information to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise as referenced above.
Strong writing skills are required to develop and articulate data warehouse strategy and implementation plan and present ideas to various audiences.
Strong understanding of public health and EMR systems in Kenya.
Understanding of emerging / new technologies and potential application.
Strong background in facilitating and training of health care workers in health related events.
Ability to synthesize information and utilize communication approaches to disseminate information.
Analytical skills required to conceptualize the development of IT architectures and frameworks. Equipment to be used: General office equipment; Computers Must be available for domestic and international travel for up to 30% time.

To respond to this position, please email your resume and cover letter to futuresgroup@gmail.com with the title position in the subject line of your email before July 15th 2011.

Futures Group Kenya Jobs.: Program Management Certification Trainer
Reports To: Chief of Party
Futures Group provides health management information systems (HMIS) support to the Government of Kenya (GoK) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Under a new contract, the Futures team provides a range of technical assistance including: support for the continued development and implementation of the national HMIS strategy; improving information flow to
guide policy and program decisions; facilitating interoperability between disparate HMIS including specific efforts to harmonize and integrate laboratory, pharmacy, and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) sub-systems; and developing a data warehouse.

The Program Management Certification Trainer will advise and provide technical expertise to the Chief of Party and broader project team on a consultancy-basis for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days.

The Program Management Certification Trainer is expected to have substantial expertise in IT domains related to Health, EMR, operationalizing software development methodologies (Agile, SCRUM, SDLC, Zackman, RUP) providing documentation support to .NET technical teams; providing templates; and reviewing technical documentation for compliance with relevant frameworks.

This individual will provide expert knowledge of and experience in applying Project Management Principles (PMP) to software development.

The Program Management Certification Trainer is also expected to have extensive working knowledge of EMR; having an understanding of IQCare is desired along with other components of IQSolutions would be an added advantage.

The work requires innovation and strong technical leadership. There is an organizational reliance on the knowledge, initiative, and experience of the Program Management Certification Trainer.

Work is very technical in nature and knowledge is highly specialized. Recommendations are recognized as expert.

Additionally, the Program Management Certification Trainer will work in close coordination with the HMIS Senior Technical Manager to develop strategic and project plans, and is responsible for resolving complex software business rules issues while ensuring integrity of databases.

10 years Expert knowledge in IT Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) principles and other domains and ability to operationalize PMBOK .NET programming team
5 years as expert trainer in Agile Software Development Methodology Lifecycle (SDLC) applied to IQCare
5 years of experience holding Project Management Institute ( PMI) compliant Project Management Principles (PMP) training courses
Knowledge and experience as SCRUM master using each of the following Project Management Tools Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Scrum, CMMI, Open Source tools and Enterprise Architecture (EA)
5 years of experience with Electronic Medical Records Systems (EMRs)
5 year experience using software Testing tools (automated and manual process)
Provides technical advice and training to senior technical leads in Agile SDLC framework; SPRINT; user requirements template, business analysis document, data dictionary mapping for EMR, IQSolutions and HL7 process.
Provides programming team best practices Use Cases for interoperability; Use Case Scenarios; templates and CMMI process applied to EMR systems, including IQSolutions and HL7.
Plans for major project milestones on EVM, TQM, CPM to reduce schedule and risk mitigation.
Provides guidance and advice to senior technical programmers, technical team.
Advises technical team on setting up IT policies, practices, and standards for operationalizing Agile SDLC, PMP principles in EMR and IQSolutions environment, and contributing to HL7 compliance for interoperability.
Provides user requirement templates, data dictionary mapping of ICD10 coding and Continuity of Care (CCD) standards in EMR interoperability.
Defines project terms of reference; manages the selection and provision of the appropriate technology; collaborates in determining priorities and deliverables, monitors service levels; evaluates against success measures; and makes presentations to management (internal and client organizations).
Provides detailed test plan and test database; establishes unit testing process, smoke testing, and regression testing for EMRs, and IQSolutons platform for HL7 interoperability and ICD 10 coding.
Supports bi- weekly technical working groups meetings with communications documents and schedules updates in concert with senior technical team.
Responsible for tracking tasks, activities, goals, and milestones in accordance with Agile SDLC and PMP.
Responsible for cross-functional version control and updates to EMR to EMR as well as IQCare to IQTools. Extensive expertise knowledge of IT principles, agile methods and SCRUM techniques; analytical skills and superior knowledge and certifications, and training in project management principles to manage projects and work with multi-disciplinary teams applied to IQSolutions.
An expert knowledge in IT domains of healthcare and finance in order to provide advice to clients and senior management.
Ability to quickly grasp the functional interrelationships and user issues critical to the success of software applications.
Expert ability to guide project managers and technical staff toward defining specifications that address their near-term needs, and anticipating longer-term requirements.
Evaluation skills to understand and present the costs/benefits of alternative development projects to prioritize them in order of their potential contribution to business performance.
Strong writing skills are required to produce specifications, correspondence and documentation related to IT.
Analytical skills are required to conceptualize and manage the development of IT architectures, frameworks, strategies, and training experience preferred.
Solid experience with Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Scrum, CMMI, Open Source tools and Enterprise Architecture (EA) in supporting EMRs including IQSolutions. Equipment to be used: General office equipment; Computers Must be available for domestic and international travel for up to 30% time.

To respond to this position, please email your resume and cover letter to futuresgroup@gmail.com with the title position in the subject line of your email before July 15th 2011.