State Data Quality Assurance Officer - Assam

Key Responsibilities

- The State Data Quality Assurance (DQA) Officer will be responsible for ensuring a performance tracker system is used for the project activities and data quality assurance systems are in place.
- Will report to State Manager in Guwahati.
- Will work closely with other team members.
- Performance Tracking In alignment with the project design, the State DQA officer is expected to establish a performance tracker in coordination with the National team and provides orientation to the state team members on its use.
- Regularly uses the tracker both in the field and while preparing the report to ensure that the monthly activity deliverables are in progress.
- Flags delays or performance lags in consultation with the city coordinator and project lead to prepare an action plan, so that the team is able to improve on their performance.
- Ensures timely preparation of reports, documents and technical briefs in consultation with the donor and stakeholders.
- Supports in preparation of baseline for the project and ensures regular monitoring of the deliverables against those baselines.
- Assurance Although no patient or disease level data will be captured or shared for use in the project, there will be a significant level of data use in implementing the project activities from secondary sources.
- The project team will also generate process and output level information for use, State DQA officer will adapt the DQA system developed by the National Team to the
- Works closely with the subject experts to ensure that the secondary sources of data are relevant for planning and designing interventions.




- How those secondary sources of data can be used for projections about future disease outbreaks or patterns.
- Conducts field visit to observe field operations first-hand, interact with local stakeholders
- Ensures that all project activities comply with YRGMERF s organisational policies on ethics, safeguarding, data protection, and financial management
- Reporting and Documentation
- Ensures that the data quality checks are performed during field visits and the gaps are discussed with the team, subject experts.
- Progress monitoring and documentation of the activities for the submission to donor and stakeholders is a key responsibility of this position.
- Additional Duties
- Undertakes any other responsibilities assigned by the supervisor in support of project objectives.

Desirable Attributes
- Skills to use data in disease surveillance, One Health Activities
- Ability to learn rapid and work with senior and experienced subject experts
- Team player and helps in finding solutions, appreciating the team work
- Understanding of Assam Health Systems specific to Urban Health, Disease Surveillance is must
- Ability to learn new tools and techniques including predictive analysis for disease surveillance

Qualifications and Experience
- Masters in Statistics or Epidemiology or Population Studies with minimum 5 years experience in managing data systems and data use in programming in Karnataka under NUHM, Urban Health, Disease Surveillance, One Health Activities, National Vector Borne Control Program.

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📌 State Data Quality Assurance Officer - Assam
🏢 YRG Care
📍 Assam