To support the South Africa Sustainable Response to HIV and AIDS (SA SURE PRO) Project, which aims to strengthen local capacity to provide sustainable HIV- and TB-related care and treatment services.
The incumbents’ key responsibility is quality assurance through facility-level supervision, support visits, capacity-building South Africa, and data quality assurance, e.g. applying data-verification tools during visits to all allocated areas and cluster facilities, leaving facility management teams with an action plan to address data-quality gaps, and continued monitoring of these facility-level data-quality improvement plans.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design, implement and execute plans for improving data quality in the designated sub- district, including data-quality assessments and resulting action plans
- Define Health Information training needs within the sub-district and provide routine feedback of data to all facilities every quarter
- Participate in and lead discussions in sub-district fora regarding trends seen in data per facility, disease-burden profiles, and indicators of poor or above-average service delivery
- Assist in the development and implementation of guidelines, training programmes and training materials for quality improvement in project data and information
- Build and maintain partnerships with all stakeholders, District Departments of Health, community bodies and civil society groups
- Provide input to optimise the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of the project and ensure its application within the sub-district
- Ensure accurate and timeous development and submission of all reports required by different stakeholders
- Supervise the project’s Roving Data Capturers to ensure that TIER.Net integrated systems are implemented and up-to-date.
REQUIREMENTS:
Qualifications
- An appropriate undergraduate degree or equivalent in a health-related and/or data management-related field
- Formal training in Monitoring and Evaluation (advanced certificate in M&E, a stand-alone M&E qualification, or a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health)
- An appropriate postgraduate qualification would be an advantage
- Formal training and/or proven knowledge of the South African National Health Information Systems, e.g. TIER.Net, WebDHIS, Health Patient Registration System (HPRS), and/or Synchronised National Communication in Health (SyNCH)
- Project management training and experience would be an advantage.
Experience and competencies
- At least three years’ M&E operational experience in Health-related programme (data collection, quality assurance, collation, consolidation, verification, analysis and reporting)
- At least three years’ Health Management Information System (HMIS) experience (e.g. TIER.Net, WebDHIS, HPRS, and/or SyNCH) – as required for this role
- Demonstrable data-management skills and experience
- Proven ability in delivering presentations and facilitating training workshops
- At least one year of experience in supervising designations of M&E staff at facility and sub-district level
- Proven M&E or research experience is essential
- Previous work experience with non-government organisations, the public health sector, or PEPFAR-funded programmes would be an advantage
- A good understanding of South Africa’s public health system, including the national and provincial policies, management and health information systems and structures
- Excellent administrative and organisational skills
- Strong time-management skills, and the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Good facilitation and communication skills
- Sensitivity to cultural differences as well as political, confidential and ethical issues pertaining to patient information
- A valid driver’s licence is essential.
