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Provincial Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator

Overview:
The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) assists governments to promote high quality health care. CHAI teams work in partnership with the government, partners, and other major stakeholders to identify the key obstacles to access and scale-up of essential health services, and to develop sustainable strategies to overcome them. In South Africa, CHAI is supporting the National Department of Health and the South Africa National AIDS Council (SANAC) in its implementation scaling up HIV and TB services. More recently CHAI has supported the development of the new National Strategic Plan on HIV, STIs and TB (2012-2016). One of the aims of this plan is to ensure that 80% of people in need have access to ART. The Government and its partners have been preparing the health system to handle the increase in patient volume by training nurses, helping public health facilities to begin offering treatment, procuring necessary commodities, and securing funding. With the expected influx of clients, it is essential to have timely and accurate data from facilities to monitor the campaign, to inform service delivery and to assess overall strategy at the national level. To strengthen capacity at the provincial level, CHAI is recruiting an M&E Coordinator who will support the Provincial Information Officer and the HAST teams to carry out this function.
The Provincial M&E Coordinator will support the M&E component of the HCT campaign, which monitors the performance of all aspects of this program through an established set of indicators. The M&E Coordinator is expected to ensure continuous data collection, identify challenges and recommend follow-up actions to the provincial and national M&E team; and help to prepare the M&E component of regular progress reports and updates as required by stakeholders. Positions require frequent travel within the province.
Responsibilities:
  • Liaise between CHAI and Provincial DOH to implement the routine collection of programme data.
  • Compile, validate, and report facility-level data to NDOH, and follow up on missing or incomplete data
  • Collaborate with extra-governmental partners and service providers to compile comprehensive data
  • Offer training support for Government and other staffs and technical troubleshooting as needed
Essential Job Functions:
  • Liaise with facilities, district and sub-district information officers and Provincial HAST team to provide day-to-day support in collecting, compiling, validating and reporting data
  • Inform DOH and facility staff on national expectations for M&E processes and data collection.
  • Provide updated figures for regular progress reports as requested in a timely fashion.
  • Participate in project reviews and data quality audits on a regular basis.
  • Perform other duties as required.
  • Draft technical documents and background papers as identified.
Qualifications:
Ideal candidate has excellent organizational skills and experience. He/she must be able to work at a rapid pace, be resourceful, flexible, and result-oriented.
  • Bachelors degree required
  • Minimum 4 years work experience required and 1 year work experience in data handling
  • Previous work experience in the South African public health system a plus
  • Ability to work in a team, excellent oral and written skills in English (and preferably local language in the Province) is required.
  • Proficient in using MS Office and conducting internet research is essential; SPSS and SAS knowledge a plus
  • South African work authorization is required
  • Current government employees can not be considered
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