M&e Ta to The Ideal Clinic Realization Program

**Consultant Job Description**

**M&E TA to the Ideal Clinic Realization Program - South Africa**

**Company Profile**
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 3,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

Palladium develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence-based solutions to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Since 1971, we have assisted governmental and non-governmental agencies, foundations, and the private sector by designing, implementing, and evaluating programs in HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, population and family planning, maternal and child health, infectious diseases, and gender. Palladium has deep expertise in policy and advocacy, research and strategic information, health markets and private sector engagement, modeling and economic analysis, patient monitoring and management/HMIS, strategic consulting, and program management.

**Background**
Palladium is implementing the USAID-funded Translating Data for Implementation (Data.FI) award. Data.FI is a $180 million, 5-year project which serves as USAID’s primary mechanism for data, technology, and health information systems to support HIV activities across strategic PEPFAR countries. Data.FI is part of a suite of large-scale global HIV programs that USAID has awarded and represents the next generation of HIV/AIDS programs. Data.FI plays a key role in USAID’s goals of helping partner countries on their Journey to Self-Reliance and transitioning local organizations to prime recipients of USG funding.

The overall goal of the Data.FI project is to improve global, regional, and national in-depth analyses of HIV epidemiologic and program data that can be directly applied to expedite the achievement of PEPFAR targets to attain and sustain control of the HIV epidemic. The focus also includes directly supporting host country governments and implementing partners to further enhance existing health information system platforms to inform management responses to well-defined gaps in HIV/AIDS programming. In order to ensure rapid access to high quality data, Data.FI works towards: accelerating data utilization to rapidly course correct and take to scale cost-effective and impactful activities, models and approaches required to attain and maintain HIV epidemic control; scaling and optimizing in-country health information system capabilities to collect, exchange, adapt, govern, and visualize information in order to track the attainment and maintenance of HIV epidemic control; and supporting the transition of prime funding and implementation to capable local partners.

**Position Summary**:
Palladium, through Data.FI, is currently seeking a skilled and motivated short term consultant to join our team as a Secondee: M&E Technical Assistant to the Ideal Clinic Realization Program to support the implementation of the Data.FI award in South Africa (SA) under the terms of the PEPFAR -GHSD Waiver. In this pivotal role, you will be seconded to the NDOH District Health Services Chief Directorate to provide key monitoring and evaluation (M&E) technical and management support to the program. This will require working from the NDOH offices on a daily basis.

Data.FI South Africa supports the National Department of Health (NDOH) Ideal Clinic Realization Program in the District Health Services Chief Directorate in its work to strengthen the capacity of public sector healthcare facilities to provide life-saving HIV and TB care and treatment to all South Africans. Your work will ensure that the Ideal Clinic Realization Program is able to plan and present critical program data. This will include preparing and submitting key reports on essential projects in the Ideal Clinic Realization Program. Key activities will include ensuring the projects are responsive to findings from the work done, as well as developing and adapting related training materials. If you are a dynamic and seasoned individual driven by the passion to use data for meaningful impact within the realm of public health, we invite you to join our team at Data.FI. Your role will be pivotal in helping the NDOH in ensuring that management of public healthcare facilities uses evidence-based decision-making.

**Primary Duties and Responsibilities**:
1. Report Preparation
- Prepare reports for inclusion into the Annual Performance Plan
- Coordinate reporting from the provinces
- Compile District and Provincial Ideal Health Facilities reports on a quarterly, annual and adhoc basis and integrate into National reports

2. Submission of Reports
- Submit prepa