Post:Analyst
Organization:Clinton Health Access InitiativeLocation:Johannesburg,South Africa
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 National M&E Analyst will work to support both the
HIV/ART and the M&E directorates of the National Department of Health to
work strategically between the two directorates to strengthen the evidence
based decision making of the NDOH directorates using monthly and quarterly data
produced by the 3-Tiered Monitoring system. The Analyst must be self-directed,
be familiar with the National Department of Health structures and be able to
adapt to the differing needs of the programmes.
The Analyst will analyze routine data reported into the DHIS
and provide feedback to both the HIV and M&E Programmes. Major focus will
be on the ART programme data, and then the HIV programme, however as capacity
is developed and analysis becomes more routinized focus will expand to
additional datasets over time. The aim will be to regularly use the data to
produce useful analysis to inform decision making at the National level between
both directorates. Challenges with the data will be fed back to the M&E
unit to help inform plans for data quality improvement. Responsibilities:
• Liaise between CHAI
and National DOH units to strengthen the use of programme data
• Receive monthly and quarterly data and produce provincial
level analyses to feed back to CHAI ART Programme Manager and to share with
National HIV/ART Programmes
• Share challenges
identified with the data with the NDOH M&E units to raise with the
Provincial Information and HIV/ART Programme managers and identify
interventions
• Collaborate with extra-governmental partners and service
providers to identify ways to strengthen the data
Essential Job
Functions:
• Provide a bridging function between National M&E and
HIV/ART Programmes
• Routine analysis of monthly and quarterly data with
ability to develop strategies to strengthen data reporting and working with (to
be established) district monitoring and evaluation forums to strengthen data
quality and data use
• Strong understanding of ART M&E SOP and DHMIS Policy
and entrench its use in strengthening data management and strengthening all
levels of accountability in supporting the two policies and data and programme
management
• Liaise with NDOH, provinces, district and sub-district
information officers as well as NDOH and Provincial HAST teams to provide
day-to-day support in interpreting analysis where needed
• Participate in
project reviews and data quality audits on a regular basis.
• Perform other
duties as required.
• Must have good communication and relationship management
skills
• Be able to draft
technical documents and background papers as required or requested
Qualifications and
Experience:
Ideal candidate has excellent organizational skills and
experience working in the public sector. He/she must be able to work at a rapid
pace, be resourceful, flexible, and results-oriented.
• Bachelors degree
required
• Minimum 4 years work
experience required and 1+ years’ work experience in data analysis
• 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 is required.
• Proficient in using TIER.Net, DHIS, MS Office (especially
Excel and Access) and conducting internet research is essential; SPSS and SAS,
or other statistical software package, knowledge a plus
• Applications from individuals working in government will
not be considered Please apply here
https://careers-chai.icims.com/jobs/3830/analyst/job
How to apply:
Please apply here
https://careers-chai.icims.com/jobs/3830/analyst/job
Job ID: #595107
Closing date: 18 Oct
2013
How to Apply:
