HMIS Officer

Over the past few years, Afghanistan has witnessed a relative improvement in security and stability across much of the country. This has allowed humanitarian actors like INTERSOS to maintain uninterrupted access and expand services in areas that were previously hard to reach. Despite this progress, the humanitarian situation remains critical, with millions of Afghans continuing to face acute vulnerabilities due to prolonged economic hardship, natural disasters, and limited access to essential services.

In 2025, more than half of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance, with food insecurity, child malnutrition, and displacement remaining key concerns. Natural disasters, such as floods and recent earthquakes, have further compounded the needs of already struggling communities.

INTERSOS continues to operate through a community-based approach with field bases in Kabul, Kandahar, and Zabul, delivering primary healthcare, nutrition, and protection services with a focus on women, children, and persons with disabilities. The organization enjoys strong community acceptance and collaborates closely with relevant national authorities, including maintaining the full participation of female staff in all activities.

While the operational environment is largely stable and conducive, funding shortfalls and systemic barriers such as restrictions on financial flows and administrative bottlenecks continue to impact the scope and scale of humanitarian response. Sustained support is crucial to ensure the continuity of life-saving services and to address the urgent needs of Afghanistan’s most vulnerable populations.

Carrying out medical data collection and entry activities into MoPH and INTERSOS DHIS2 as well as in the national nutrition database recording all relevant clinical and demographic data on patients and ensuring data quality/reliability, maintaining confidentiality while producing the appropriate, updated documents for the medical team.

Main tasks:

1.     Verification of the intake forms and standard formats, reports on hygiene promotion, health-nutrition activities from the field staff.

2. Performing data entry of all epidemiological information into select databases program and creating appropriate reports.

3.     Ensuring that all data entered has been authorized and that appropriate documentation has been received (patient records, treatment monitoring, etc.) before entering in relevant data bases.

4. Ensuring all data collected and entered to databases is consistently accurate and complete. Being responsible for ensuring that quality control is followed up, ensuring identification of data entry errors and corrections. Immediately reporting to the supervisor, any anomalies in the database.

5.     Fill the weekly report with the data concerning health (MIAR report, medical staff in HFs reports), nutrition and WASH activities implemented by the different teams and send a final draft to the technical supervisor and PM/PO on weekly bases;

6.     Measure and report on qualitative and quantitative input, traced during the data entry process.

7. Ensure the delivery of weekly and monthly reports, in compliance with national stakeholder (i.e. MoPH, PND) and donor requirement, on Health/nutrition and WASH activities, in a timely manner;

8.     Revise, when requested by the coordinators, any documents related to the patient or case management, such as registration form, referral forms, MIAR, Health Facilities HIMS.

9. Assisting in the staff (re)training when necessary, on proper registration of patients, proper filling of the various forms, clarifying queries, obtaining missing information and correcting errors, ensuring they have ongoing sufficient supplies of necessary hardcopy data collection forms

10. Assisting in the compilation and preparation of regular reports

1.       Preferably Nursing or medical certificate;

2.       Experience in HMIS activities;

3.       Proven computer literacy, and in specific office software programs such as word and excel;

4.       2+ years of relevant work experience, preferably in a development/humanitarian related field;

5.       Preferably, previous experience in entry data and management;

6.       Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to effectively present information and respond appropriately to questions from senior managers in the field.

7.       Ability and willingness to travel to project sites as needed.

8.       Strong Pashtu and Dari skills, written and spoken. Knowledge of English is required.