Job Description
Position
Individual Consultant — DHIS2 Tracker Customization and Implementation
Project
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PEN-Plus Project
Duty station
Addis Ababa, with field travel to PEN-Plus implementation sites for start up
Contract type
Valid until completion and formal acceptance of all agreed deliverables, including the 12-month post-deployment support period.
Payment
Negotiable, based on the available budget. Payment will be made in phases upon completion and approval of the agreed deliverables for each phase.
Application deadline
August 28, 2026
Background & Objective
Since 2022, MWF, in partnership with the Ministry of Health with support from the NCDI Poverty Network, has implemented PEN-Plus project at Addis Zemen (Amhara) and Muketuri (Oromia) Primary Hospitals, continuously enrolling and providing comprehensive care for patients with severe NCDs. Currently, these hospitals are using paper-based system for clinical care in which we plan to replace by reliable longitudinal patient tracking, reporting system with excellent data-quality control checks. In addition to these two primary hospitals, MWF is closely working with MOH and Regional Health Bureaus to scale-up the service to 150 primary hospitals by 2030.
MWF invites qualified individual consultants to customize, configure, test, deploy, document, and support a DHIS2 Tracker-based longitudinal patient data-management platform for PEN-Plus clinics — covering registration, clinical documentation, follow-up, cohort monitoring, dashboards, and reporting, with future interoperability with Ministry of Health platforms and national standards.
Scope of Work
Requirements & System Design
Review PEN-Plus clinical/program workflows and existing forms; engage stakeholders to produce a complete System Requirements Specification (SRS); define functional and technical specifications (infrastructures, hosting options, security, backup/disaster-recovery, interoperability); define organization units, user roles, and access permissions.
DHIS2 Tracker Configuration
Configure a patient-level DHIS2 Tracker program with unique patient ID, demographics, and diagnosis; disease-specific enrollment/follow-up forms; cohort-register functionality; referral, outcome, missed-appointment, and loss-to-follow-up tracking; document all custom development.
Reporting, Dashboards & Data Quality
Automated disease-specific dashboards (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma, and other agreed conditions) enrollment, retention, outcome, mortality, and donor-reporting. Monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual cohort report generation. Validation rules, duplicate detection, and data-quality monitoring.
Interoperability, Deployment & Security
Configure test and production environments; ensure reliable online/offline operation on desktop and tablet; support integration with Ministry of Health HMIS/EMR platforms using national standards and APIs (incl. HL7/FHIR); implement role-based access, audit trails, encryption, backups, and disaster recovery; comply with Ethiopian and MWF data-protection requirements.
Testing, Go-Live, Training & Support
Execute configuration, integration, security, and user-acceptance testing; obtain documented MWF sign-off before go-live; manage data cleaning/migration with MWF approval; prepare go-live and rollback plans; deliver role-based training and manuals for administrators, clinicians, and M&E/IT staff; provide a minimum of 12 months' post-deployment technical support and maintenance under an agreed SLA.
Key Deliverables (Summary)
Inception report, work plan, and risk register
Approved System Requirements Specification (SRS): including infrastructure
Functional/technical specifications and architecture, security, and migration plans
Configured test environment, then secured production DHIS2 system
UAT results, defect log, and signed acceptance record
Full source code, metadata, and configuration documentation
Administrator/user manuals and training materials
Go-live report and knowledge-transfer report
Minimum 12 months of post-deployment support, with periodic reports
Preferred: experience with Ethiopia's Ministry of Health/HMIS/EMR standards, NCD/chronic-care workflows, HL7/FHIR interoperability, and DHIS2 certification.
Job Requirements
Required Qualifications
Master’s or Bachelor’s in software engineering, computer science, information systems, health informatics, or a closely related field (plus substantial directly relevant experience may be considered).
5+ years leading complex DHIS2 implementations, including DHIS2 Tracker/patient-level cohort systems and dashboard development.
Evidence of at least two completed DHIS2 Tracker or comparable patient-level health-information system assignments/preferably longitudinal system.
Experience on with Java, PostgreSQL, APIs, systems integration, secure hosting, and DHIS2 administration.
Experience with user roles, validation rules, audit trails, backups, disaster recovery, and secure handling of patient-level data.
Ability to gather requirements, prepare specifications, and manage testing/deployment, and deliver full technical handover.
Experience in closely working and training of administrators, clinicians, M&E teams, and program staff.
How To Apply
Application Procedure
Interested applicants who meet the requirements should apply through the MWF online application portal within ten (10) working days from the date of publication, but no later than August 26, 2026. The applicants can request the current clinical and working tools through hr@mathiwos.org email.
Once the potential candidates are selected, MWF will request an interview and Demo session to confirm the understanding of the assignment.
Applicants must submit:
Cover letter, concise CV of no more than three pages;
Proposal/technical documents that clearly show the scope of work, methodology, the workflow, technical approach, work plan/timeline and budget cost for the assignment.
Evidence of at least three relevant assignments, Copies of relevant academic and professional certificates.
Application link: https://mathiwos.org/jobs/
Application deadline: August 28, 2026
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
