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Hassan Mushi
Monitoring & Evaluation | Data Analyst | Statistician
Dar es Salaam
Summary
Results-driven Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Specialist with 7+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing MEL systems for donor-funded projects. Proficient in data collection, analysis, visualization, and reporting for program performance monitoring. Skilled in tools such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL, DHIS2, MySQL, SPSS, and GIS (QGIS). Strong expertise in ensuring data quality, process monitoring, stakeholder engagement, and compliance with donor and government reporting requirements. Passionate about driving data-driven decision-making, digital innovation, and capacity-building for sustainable impact.
Overview
7
years of professional experience
3
Certifications
2
Languages
Work History
Family Health International (FHI 360)
Regional Technical Officer - Strategic Information
10.2024 - Current
Job overview
- Manage M&E frameworks, ensuring alignment with donor and government standards, leading to improved HIV/AIDS program indicator's performance tracking ensuring improved health service delivery to project beneficiaries.
- Conduct process and outcome monitoring, identifying key bottlenecks in health service delivery and recommending solutions that enhanced project efficiency leading to timely identification and linkage to treatment of new HIV cases.
- Design and implementing digitalized HIV/AIDS data collection, reporting and monitoring tools through ODK, Kobo, Microsoft forms, and Power BI dashboards, which improved real-time data accuracy, reducing reporting errors by 40% and increase data usage by 60%.
- Provide technical support to project field monitoring teams and healthcare service providers ensuring data collection alignment with Ministry of Health and donor standards for HIV/AIDS identification and treatment services.
- Lead capacity-building sessions for project and health facilities staff on M&E best practices, data analysis, and visualization, increasing utilization of data insights for decision-making by 60%.
- Spearhead digital data collection innovations using ODK, Kobo, and mobile data platforms, improving data timeliness and quality.
- Work with the Program Manager to ensure USAID's quarterly
reports, semi-annual progress reports (SAPR), and annual
progress reports (APR) are prepared on time. - Oversee and support M&E capacity building for sub-grantees, including identifying the needs of different partners, establishing the training plan, and ensuring the quality of training for all project partners.
ICAP at Columbia University
Data Analyst
04.2023 - 09.2024
Job overview
- Conducted in-depth monitoring and analyses of HIV prevention, care, and treatment initiatives across healthcare facilities and communities, ensuring a thorough understanding of project dynamics.
- Upheld the integrity of program monitoring and evaluation processes and health information systems, guaranteeing the reliability and precision of collected data for informed decision-making.
- Compiled routine and ad-hoc reports on data quality initiatives and outcomes under the guidance of the M&E Advisor, to meet the Ministry of Health and donor's commitment to data quality, transparency and accountability.
- Employed innovative strategies such as development of dashboard using in Power BI, Tableau and PowerPoint for internal and external data scrutiny and analysis, meeting rigorous reporting criteria and fulfilling requests from donors and stakeholders.
- Conducted thorough data analysis producing nuanced breakdowns of data to facilitate data-driven decision-making and showing areas for improvement and pinpoint success interventions, providing valuable insights essential for abstract writing and comprehensive project documentation.
- Vigilantly supervised corrective and pre-emptive measures, promptly addressing data quality discrepancies and initiating course corrections or revised strategies to maintain consistently high-quality data across community and facility-based services.
- Collaborated seamlessly with local, regional, national, and global partners, leveraging my technical skills in data management to foster a cooperative atmosphere and encourage knowledge exchange to achieve project and government's objectives on meeting the epidemic control.
- Spearheaded research activities, including HIV Recency and Bio-behavioral surveys, program assessments, and policy-related evaluations, hence strengthened data utilization for decision-making.
Family Health International (FHI 360)
Regional Strategic Information Officer
10.2021 - 04.2023
Job overview
- Enhanced Monitoring & Evaluation expertise, including data collection, cleaning, validation, analysis, visualization and use, information systems development and maintenance, and capacitating of M&E and other project staff on M&E related issues.
- Developed interactive dashboards using DHIS2, Excel, and Power BI with graphs, tables, and maps that analyze program indicators across interventions that enhanced data use in programmatic monitoring and planning
- Developed data alignment and data quality checkbooks using MS Excel and Power Query that improved the project's data quality across diverse systems used for reporting
- Assisted on development of HIV Program individual-level data tracking database using the DHIS2 Tracker application, developed program indicators and validations hence ensured timely reporting and quality data.
- Oriented Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) regularly on MER indicator's definition, data sources, data collection, cleaning, reporting, analysis, and visualization that helped them comply with Ministry of Health and donor's guidelines and standards.
- Oriented and capacitated the CSOs SI team on the use of HIV individualized project database systems and report systems such as DHIS2 platform.
- Planned and conducted routine data quality assessments with USAID, NACP, R/CHMTs, and CSOs hence ensured data quality throughout all project interventions.
- Led weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance overview meetings with CSOs, HQ, and government counterparts.
ICAP at Columbia University
Strategic Information Officer
12.2019 - 09.2021
Job overview
- Managed and provided technical expertise in statistical issues to ensure strategic information needs related to CDC/FIKIA project are met
- Monitored and evaluated HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment activities of Key and Vulnerable Populations KVP and conducted timely DQAs and verifications to ensure quality implementation and reporting (weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual)
- Developed automated analytical dashboards with graphs and tables which provided a more efficient way to monitor and advice on the project progress to targets on a daily, monthly, and quarterly basis, and a performance scoring system using MS Excel functions and pivot tables
- Revised and designed data collection and entry tools including electronic data entry tools using MS Excel and DHIS2 Tracker that simplified and provided a more stable system for data management from the field level to the technical level
- Managed an automated system for DHIS2 monthly entries for KVP, Community Refill, and HTS cascade reporting by the use of import files generated from MS Excel using queries in MS Access and mHealth Apps in android tablets
- Supervised and managed timely data entries into various databases including DHIS2, mHealth App, and DATIM by SI assistants, then performed data queries and analysis that highlighted gaps that were corrected
- Prepared weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports and submitted them in DHIS2, DATIM, and other reporting systems for the SI advisor to report according to the requirements and requests of donors and government counterparts
- Collaborated with IT and Developers in designing and automating ICAP's operations to electronic online platforms hence bringing tremendous innovation and technological advance in ICAP's management system
ICAP at Columbia University
Strategic Information Assistant
06.2018 - 11.2019
Job overview
- Conducted electronic data entry and cleaning of the paper and electronic data from field activities
- Followed up with health facility registers for referrals and linkage tracing and verification
- Reported to and assisted Data Officer on any Strategic Information issues that arose during field activities
- Conducted timely and complete data entries from paper-based sources to electronic sources such as Ms
- Excel, Access database, and DHIS2
- Conducted data checks and verifications of paper-based data forms such as referral forms, and registers with the data in electronic data systems such as mHealth App, CTC2 database, and DHIS2 hence verified and ensured accuracy and error-free data produced
- Trained outreach and healthcare workers on data collection tools, including mHealth applications for KVP data capturing in tablets, referrals, reports, registers, and other questionnaires hence improved efficiency of services and data quality
National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania
Research Assistant - Enumerator
11.2017 - 11.2018
Job overview
- Responsible for collecting household data into electronic database, administering survey and questionnaires to household members, and performing basic statistical analysis of the survey data
- Monitoring the survey activities, conducting group discussion interviews with household members and reporting to the Regional Statistical manager on the survey implementations
- Performed group discussion interviews with household members on socio-economic and health-related issues from their day-to-day life
- Collected socio-economic and health-related data in questionnaires and logbooks provided to household members for day-to-day recording of their income and expenditures
- Gathered and entered the survey's socio-economic and health-related data from households into electronic EPI info data collection software
- Ensured timely, complete, valid, and accurate reporting from all data collection activities using the provided DQA tools
- Collaborated with LGA's leaders in searching and locating the selected household's location using GPS, as well as addressing challenges that arose during the survey
- Prepared biweekly reports and data backups that ensured data security and confidentiality of all records and data
Education
Cavendish UniversityKampala, Uganda
Master of Public Health from Public Health
04.2001
Eastern Africa Statistical Training CentreDar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Bachelor in Official Statistics from Statistics
04.2001
University Overview
- 4.4 GPA
- Degree Awarded with First Honors
Moshi Technical Seconday SchoolKilimanjaro, Tanzania
High School Diploma
04.2001
Skills
Project Management
Research and Statistics
Critical Thinking and Problem solver
Collaboration and Teamwork
Data Analysis & Visualization
Database systems ie MySQL server, Microsoft Access, DHIS2
Data Visualization
Geographical Information Systems (Quantum GIS - QGIS)
Operating systems (Microsoft Windows & Linux)
Certification
Work Smarter with Microsoft Excel
Software
Artificial Intelligence
Power BI, Power Query, Tableau
QGIS
SPSS, STATA, R
Timeline
Regional Technical Officer - Strategic Information
Family Health International (FHI 360)
10.2024 - Current
Data Analyst
ICAP at Columbia University
04.2023 - 09.2024
Regional Strategic Information Officer
Family Health International (FHI 360)
10.2021 - 04.2023
Strategic Information Officer
ICAP at Columbia University
12.2019 - 09.2021
Strategic Information Assistant
ICAP at Columbia University
06.2018 - 11.2019
Research Assistant - Enumerator
National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania
11.2017 - 11.2018
Cavendish University
Master of Public Health from Public Health
04.2001
Eastern Africa Statistical Training Centre
Bachelor in Official Statistics from Statistics
04.2001
Moshi Technical Seconday School
High School Diploma
04.2001