Technical Assistant

Workplace Circumstances

• Environment: Government
• Languages: English, Khmer
• Location: Phnom Penh

Position Summary

Total Duration 70 working days

Note: Payment shall only be made after submission of a report and relevant deliverables for each milestone, to be reviewed and approved by the National Malaria Program.

Objective and Justification

The primary objective of hiring a Technical Assistant (TA) is to support the establishment of harmonized common master data across the MIS, TB, HIV, laboratory, logistics, and other relevant health program systems.

The specific objectives are to:

• Assess existing master data structures, reference data, identifiers, and coding systems used across relevant programs and platforms.
• Harmonize common master data for health facilities, administrative divisions, population, laboratory, and stock/commodities.
• Support validation and quality assurance of harmonized master data.
• Establish practical mechanisms for updating, maintaining, and exchanging common master data across systems.
• Provide technical recommendations to support secure and sustainable interoperability.

Scope of Work

The selected TA will work closely with the Head of the MIS Unit and relevant CNM teams, program focal points, and designated technical counterparts from TB, HIV, laboratory, logistics, and other relevant programs. The TA will review existing systems and data structures, identify common master data requirements, harmonize datasets, and support validation and integration.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Assessment and Planning
• Review the existing MIS architecture, database structure, relevant modules, master data, and current data exchange mechanisms.
• Identify relevant systems and databases used by TB, HIV, laboratory, stock/logistics, and other health programs.
• Assess data availability, structures, standards, identifiers, update mechanisms, access requirements, and technical readiness.
• Identify duplication, inconsistencies, gaps, data quality issues, and interoperability challenges.
• Develop a proposed methodology and implementation plan for master data harmonization.
• Master Data Harmonization and Standardization
• Review and harmonize health facility names, codes, types, locations, and other relevant attributes.
• Review and harmonize province, district, commune, village, and other relevant administrative references.
• Review population reference data and geographic relationships required for program planning and reporting.
• Review laboratory facility, service, test, specimen, and other relevant reference data.
• Review and harmonize stock and commodity information, including RDTs, ACTs, LLINs, laboratory commodities, and other relevant commodities.
• Define common identifiers, codes, naming conventions, field definitions, and data standards.
• Data Mapping and Interoperability
• Develop mapping/crosswalk tables between common master data and program-specific codes and identifiers.
• Define data elements, formats, relationships, and standards required for exchange.
• Develop procedures for matching and maintaining consistency between datasets.
• Provide technical specifications for using common master data through APIs or other data exchange mechanisms.
• Data Quality Assurance and Validation
• Establish validation and quality assurance rules for common master data.
• Identify and address duplication, inconsistent naming, missing values, invalid codes, and other data quality issues.
• Conduct technical testing and stakeholder validation of harmonized datasets.
• Refine master data based on validation results and agreed stakeholder feedback.
• Maintenance, Governance and Documentation
• Define procedures for creating, updating, deactivating, and maintaining master data.
• Develop technical and user guidance for maintaining common master data.
• Provide knowledge transfer to relevant CNM and technical staff.
• Expected Outputs
• Harmonized master data framework covering facility, administrative and population information.
• Master data mapping/crosswalk tables between common and program-specific datasets.
• Harmonized and validated datasets prepared for appropriate use within the MIS and integrated systems.
• Technical specifications and recommendations for API/data exchange and master data maintenance.
• Documentation, governance recommendations, and knowledge transfer provided to relevant CNM staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Health Informatics, Data Management, or another related field

Work History

• Database management, information system development, data integration, or system interoperability for 5 years as a minimum

General & Technical Skills

• Demonstrated experience in master data management, data mapping, data harmonization, data validation, and data quality assurance.
• Strong knowledge of database technologies, data standards, APIs, and information system interoperability.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles, including secure data exchange, access control, and protection of sensitive information.
• Experience with health information systems or government information systems is an advantage.
• Ability to work and coordinate effectively with multiple government institutions and technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with the health system in Cambodia is desired.
• Experience in malaria, TB, HIV, laboratory, logistics, or public health information systems is desired.