Strategic Information Manager at mothers2mothers

The Strategic Information (SI) Manager will be the lead technical expert responsible for all strategic information responsibilities related to the USAID-funded Children, Adolescents, and Families in the HIV Epidemic Activity in Limpopo Province, including all monitoring, evaluation, analytics, and reporting of performance and results.  S/he will lead all efforts to strengthen monitoring and evaluation, and performance reporting within the activity, which includes overseeing support to sub-partners to monitor, document and analyse the performance of their HIV services and activities to ensure data quality.  S/he will liaise with relevant technical advisers, and counterparts responsible for district and provincial-level strategic information and monitoring, evaluation, and support coordination with national Management Information Systems (MIS).   
The position will be based in Limpopo.

Key Performance Areas: 

Data management: 

• Develop and manage programme specific M&E framework and plan including systems requirements.
• Manage programme evaluations including synthesis of information and dissemination towards improved knowledge sharing/management. 
• Develop and adapt M&E system in line with programme priorities and MEL framework.
• Support m2m’s internal quality improvement initiative, Project BIO, as it relates to all aspects of the programme
• Conduct weekly review data to ensure correctness and completeness.
• Generate data reports based on entered data on a periodic basis and as required.
• Ensure receipt of all monthly M&E and other reporting forms from all sites 
• Support data management in relation to periodic evaluations and operations research
• Update data systems to capture additional information based on programme and donor needs.

Data quality monitoring: 
Lead routine data compilation, monthly, quarterly and annually.
Lead implementation of all M&E activities; development of tools, capacity building, site supervision, data collection and reporting.  
Review data to ensure completeness and accuracy in data entry, follow up on missing data and data reporting forms, and implement data quality controls
Facilitate data utilisation including guiding routine performance monitoring ensuring provision of analytical data to inform effective QA/QI 
Lead SIMS activities for project

Reports/ Documentation: 

• Lead programme M&E related internal and external reporting, providing relevant strategic information for evidence-based programmatic and strategic decision-making.
• Work with M&E colleagues to provide relevant data and information required to compile donor and internal reports. 
• Provide data and information whenever required to document lessons learned and special reports.
• Prepare and deliver presentations for donors and Ministry of Health.
• Maintain filling system to ensure secure and organised storage of site reporting forms and other related M&E documents. 
• Coordinate the supply, production, and distribution of printed and digital M&E tools for all m2m sites in programme
• Assist the team as required including running reports of data used for programme review and planning.
• Provide strategic information for evidence-based programmatic and strategic decision-making in relation to programme performance monitoring, planning, resource mobilisation, strategic positioning and programme design.

Capacity Building & Management: 

• Provide technical and analytical input to the Chief of Party, Technical Specialists and Programmes team to support program design in the programme.
• Lead in-person and virtual training sessions of site staff on data documentation, indicators, monthly data compilation and data quality check techniques. 
• Conduct on site supportive supervision visits to identify gaps and challenges faced by site staff and offer onsite training, mentoring and support for improved data collection and management. 
• Collaborate with the programme team to formulate roll-out plans for new data collection tools.
• Facilitate M&E training components during pre-service training and in-service training.
• Establish effective systems and innovative strategies for retaining both new and old clients within the data base in the programme.
• Provide line management, supervision and support to M&E team.
• Develop M&E technical expertise for programme team to ensure adequate capacity to support programme activities. 
• Conduct ongoing capacity building for programmes and frontline staff.

Partnership: 

• Strengthen relationship with MOH and other partners at municipal, provincial and national level to ensure access to other alternative data sources.
• Lead interactions with other PEPFAR USAID Implementing partners to share key lessons and good practices for improved data collection and management.
• Engage with PEPFAR / USAID M & E teams for improved data management and quality assurance/quality improvement.

Qualifications and Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., public health, statistics, or demography) 
• Minimum of five years’ experience work experience in designing, establishing, and managing monitoring and evaluation systems, ensuring data quality, and managing data intensive, performance- based programs funded by PEPFAR.
• Experience with large scale PEPFAR /USAID -funded projects and/or high value bilateral or multilateral awards is highly desirable. 
• Experience using and training programme staff on digital M&E tools.
• Demonstrated ability to be the senior subject matter expert in data analytics. 
• Proven experience in managing and processing data, including conducting data quality audits in the health sector, experience with HIV/AIDS programmes and PEPFAR reporting requirements is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to portray complex data sets in easy-to-understand formats including data visualisations 
• Demonstrated ability to prepare robust data extraction from internal and external information systems.
• Demonstrated ability to perform complex data quality analyses and make recommendations based on findings.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of South Africa’s health and social service information systems and monitoring and evaluation processes as it relates to data collection for performance-based reporting.
• Excellent knowledge of M&E systems development, best practices, innovations and international developments in HIV.
• Knowledge of DHIS2, Commcare, SPSS, Epi info, Epi-data or Stata packages (at least one of these)
• Computer skills and experience using MS Excel, Outlook and Access are a requirement. 

Competencies: 

• Exceptional attention to detail, concentrate on detail for long periods of time and deliver accurate work within set timelines.
• The ability to work independently and in a team.
• Good interpersonal, documentation, communication and presentation skills
• Dynamic, innovative, results and action-oriented leader.
• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills with experience managing human resources. 
• Strategic thinker with strong business and analytical skills.
• Sound decision-making. 
• Communicates effectively in English.
• A passion for m2m vision and mission
• A commitment to the m2m values.