Monitoring and Evaluations Lead - Western Cape at The Aurum Institute

Description

Aurum will be pursuing USAID’s “Western Cape Provincial Care and Treatment Activity. The conceptual goal of this activity is to support healthy lives for the population of South Africa by achieving and sustaining HIV epidemic control through locally-led solutions that enable access to equitable health care. USAID aims to reach this goal by achieving the following strategic objectives:

•  Close the gaps to HIV epidemic control.
• Sustain health gains through strengthened, improved, and resilient health systems; and
• Leverage community, civil society, traditional structures, and private sector partnerships to improve and sustain service delivery and client outcomes.

Aurum is seeking a technical expert to lead all strategic information responsibilities related to the Activity, including:

• project performance monitoring, evaluation, analytics, and reporting;
•  technical support to public health facilities and community organizations in quality HIV/TB program data management; and
• the use of strategic information for program learning and quality improvement.

The role will report directly to the project Chief of Party and indirectly to Regional Director Strategic Information; and will be based in the Western Cape Province.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the monitoring and evaluation and reporting framework and systems development.
• Provide provincial technical leadership and support for all monitoring and evaluation management and programme data reporting activities.
• Ensure the integration of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) activities into all project components, and oversee the collection, reporting, and analysis of information on project activities.
• Ensure timely and complete reporting from all partners in accordance with approved reporting formats, especially supported health facilities and districts reporting into the national health database and reporting into USAID.
• Monitor and evaluate progress towards annual work plans and expected outputs, including selecting and monitoring progress in meeting programmatic performance indicators.
• Assist the COP in the preparation of work plans/selection of indicators and annual implementation plans with a view towards the project’s MEL requirements.
• Coordinate the preparation of all quarterly and annual project reports, ad-hoc technical reports and success stories for· USAID funding in line with the required formats.
• Collect data for annual MEL plans and use those data to in improve project performance.
• Adapt and implement tools and techniques to improve the quality and use of data for decision making.
• Support the use of data for decision-making and program quality improvement planning.
• Compile information on lessons learned and expertise within and outside the project.
• Provide support to institutional and human capacity building activities at the provincial and local levels for project activities towards strengthening public health management information systems.
• Based on the afore-mentioned capacity building plan, conduct monthly seminars, hands­ on training, mentoring, and coaching for project staff including partners.
• Liaise with relevant technical advisers and counterparts responsible for district and provincial level strategic information and monitoring and evaluation and provide technical support to improve public health information systems.

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience:

• A master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, monitoring & evaluation, demography, biostatistics, statistics, analytics, or a related field is required.
• Minimum of 8 years’ work experience in designing, establishing, and managing monitoring and evaluation systems, ensuring data quality, and managing data-intensive, performance-based programs, preferably of a program funded by USAID.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in managing a strategic information technical team.
• Demonstrated experience to identify needs for and design and implement evaluations and assessments to further program performance.
• Demonstrated ability to portray complex data sets in easy-to-understand formats including visualisations.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of South Africa health information systems and monitoring and evaluation processes as they relate to data collection for performance-based reporting.
• Demonstrated knowledge and working experience in the use of mapping and other similar tools (including computer software programs) to target program interventions and resources.
• Demonstrated written, presentation and communication skills in English.

 Closing Date: 26 July 2024