Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital is a not-for-profit Children’s Hospital established in 1947. Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital is the most established paediatric hospital in Eastern and Central Africa, providing healthcare to children in Kenya as well as those referred from neighbouring countries. The hospital attends to over 300,000 outpatients annually through a network of 15 facilities in and around Nairobi and admits over 9,000 patients annually at its 100-bed facility located at Muthaiga, Nairobi.

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Key Responsibilities

• Provide programming within the hospital management information system.
• Consult with users to identify current operating procedures and to clarify program objectives.
• Writing documentation to describe the custom configuration of applications and operating procedures to liaise with 3rd party application development consultants.
• Provide technical expertise and recommendations in assessing new IT software projects and initiatives to support and enhance our existing systems.
• Make recommendations on custom applications which may be required from time to time based on new technologies and the hospital’s requirements.
• Provide programming for in-house IT projects.
• Provide SQL and MySQL development and administration in live and test environments.
• Write technical procedures and documentation for the applications, including operations, and a user guide
• Produce technical documentation for new and existing applications.
• Verify database and data integrity.
• Investigate and resolve application functionality-related issues and provide advanced-level support and troubleshooting for all systems.
• Analyse data contained in the corporate database and identify data integrity issues with existing and proposed systems, and implement solutions.
• Assist in the creation of the system design and functional specifications for all new development projects.
• Develop and maintain database and application integrations.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

• Bachelor’s in ICT or Bachelor’s Related Computer Studies.
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience

• Provide programming within the hospital management information system.
• Consult with users to identify current operating procedures and to clarify program objectives.
• Writing documentation to describe the custom configuration of applications and operating procedures to liaise with 3rd party application development consultants.
• Provide technical expertise and recommendations in assessing new IT software projects and initiatives to support and enhance our existing systems.
• Make recommendations on custom applications which may be required from time to time based on new technologies and the hospital’s requirements.
• Provide programming for in-house IT projects.
• Provide SQL and MySQL development and administration in live and test environments.
• Write technical procedures and documentation for the applications, including operations, and a user guide
• Produce technical documentation for new and existing applications.
• Verify database and data integrity.
• Investigate and resolve application functionality-related issues and provide advanced-level support and troubleshooting for all systems.
• Analyse data contained in the corporate database and identify data integrity issues with existing and proposed systems, and implement solutions.
• Assist in the creation of the system design and functional specifications for all new development projects.
• Develop and maintain database and application integrations.

• SQL
• MySQL
• Programming
• Database Administration
• Application Development
• Technical Support
• Troubleshooting
• Data Integrity Analysis
• System Design
• Functional Specifications
• Database Integration
• Application Integration

• Bachelor’s in ICT or Bachelor’s Related Computer Studies.