Health Information, Epidemiology, Research

**Health Information, Epidemiology, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Expert - 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 individual to join our team as a Secondee: Health Information, Epidemiology, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation (HIERME) Technical Expert to support the implementation of the Data.FI award in South Africa (SA). Data.FI South Africa supports the National Department of Health (NDOH) HIERME cluster in its role of providing strategic leadership for the building of coherent systems to generate evidence for the use in planning, service delivery and performance management of the health sector.

In this pivotal role, you will be at the forefront of providing high-level technical expertise to the HIERME Chief Directorate in coordinating strategic work of the NDOH, responding to urgent and special assignments as requested by the executive, and providing ongoing support and debriefing to the NDOH executive through quarterly reports which are presented to Parliament and Cabinet.

This position requires technical expertise in strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and reporting. You will be expected to use your experience of health information systems in South Africa to support the development and analysis of data-focused services that will contribute to building the overall capacity of the NDOH. If you are a dynamic and seasoned individual driven by the passion to use data for meaningful impact within the realm of public health in South Africa, we invite you to join our team at Data.FI. Your role will be pivotal in enhancing the efficacy of the NDOH in using data for program monitoring, reporting, evidence-based decision-making and sustainable strategic planning.

**Key Responsibilities**

1. Strategic Planning technical assistance
- Provide technical assistance in strengthening Strategic Planning at NDOH
- Provide technical expertise in facilitating alignment of the Departmental Strategic Plan in line with other relevant