Vacancies at Anova Health Institute

Key duties and responsibilities:

 Implementation of clinical prevention, care, and treatment services

• Oversee and support the implementation of Anova’s Men’s program activities at the district, Sub-District, and facility level, in line with APACE strategy & workplan.
• Form part of Anova Sub-District teams and be actively involved in activities that support the MINA campaign, Men’s health services, and the overall Anova APACE strategy.
• Oversee the implementation of comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and treatment, psychological/adherence support, and SRHR services to Men, including distribution of prepacked medication/ART and PrEP (once approved by DoH).
• Promote and support successful linkage of adolescent boys to VMMC services.
• Review weekly and monthly data on Men’s health services uptake at Men’s Health sites, PrEP uptake, retention performance against targets; then, together with M & E team and other Anova staff, develop strategies to improve performance.

 Capacity building

• Provide training to relevant staff (Internal & external staff) on comprehensive packages of Men’s program services, including MINA.
• Mentor and coach the Anova and DOH teams on critical issues related to the Management of Men living with HIV.  

Stakeholder engagement

• Engage with DOH stakeholders to get buy-in for scale-up of Men’s program activities.
• Identify other stakeholders already providing Men targeted/related activities in the subdistricts.
• Develop relationships with relevant government departments, civil society, faith-based organizations, and internal stakeholders that support or impact the project’s core objectives.

 Minimum qualifications, experience, and skills required:

• Diploma in nursing and valid registration with SANC.
• Clinical Assessment Treatment & Care (PHC Nurse Clinician).
• At least five years’ experience in a management position with at least two-year experience within the Male program's comprehensive HIV/TB programs essential.
• Understanding TB/HIV/PrEP guidelines, Male program indicators, and monitoring & evaluation.
• Demonstrate initiative and the ability to develop and carry out work plans and solve problems within the Men’s health program.
• General knowledge of health systems – facility and community HCT, etc.
• Teamwork, Ability to multitask and communication skills.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Computer Literate Ms. Office
• Analytical skills.

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Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversee routine reporting into DATIM and support District Management teams to produce data quality narratives
• Promote the use of data at various levels of programme implementation based on identified indicators
• Conduct weekly, monthly, and quarterly data quality audits (DQAs) of reported data in conjunction with program managers, district technical support and M&E officers
• Maintenance of standard health data information systems (HIS) such as TIER.Net, PHCIS, Prehmis, etc. across all Anova supported sites
• Conduct appropriate onsite training; provide remedial plans; actively participate in resolving problems at the facility level
• Supervision of M&E officers and day-to-day supervision of data capturing teams
• Coordinate facility data capturing teams and resolve/fix data quality issues
• Maintain a schedule of targeted funder site visits and provide M&E content for such visits
• Provide on-going M&E technical assistance to Anova APACE staff, sub-grantees, and DOH, Community partners
• Coordinate sub-district performance review meetings, and monitor remedial actions
• Coordinate workplan implementation review process with Programme Managers
• Build and strengthen strategic relationships with DOH, other Funded organisations & Provincial Sectoral Departments
• Represent Anova at DOH HAST Directorate and Community meetings and forums

Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Skills Required

• More than 4 years training or work experience in either: monitoring & evaluation, computer science, information systems, data management science, public health, health informatics, statistics/mathematics
• At least 5 years of experience with Health Indicators, M&E, Data quality and reporting to DOH or PEPFAR
• Experience with DHIS, Health Systems, ETR.NET, DATIM and health indicators
• Experience in M&E Capacity building for facility level data capturing teams
• Outstanding communication skills and report writing skills
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Ability to work proactively and collaboratively with people at all levels in the organisation
• Advanced Computer Skills, especially MS Excel
• Knowledge of best practices
• Experience in a clinical research environment
• Experience implementing Monitoring and Evaluation plans
• Experience with Health Systems, DHIS, Clinical stationery, DQA and Data feedback
• Experience training and mentoring in Monitoring and Evaluation and familiarity with South Africa’s health information at public-sector facilities
• This position will be based in the Khayelitsha and Eastern Sub-Districts so please bear this in mind when applying.

 Closing date: 15 March 2024