Pepfar Reporting, His Policy and Reporting Alignment Specialist

**PEPFAR reporting, HIS Policy and Reporting Alignment Specialist -**
**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 an experienced and motivated short term, part time consultant to join our team as a PEPFAR Reporting, HIS Policy and Reporting Alignment Specialist to support the implementation of the revised Data.FI award in South Africa (SA) under the terms of the PEPFAR -GHSD Waiver.

Data.FI South Africa supports the National Department of Health Digital Health Unit (DHU) in its role of
providing strategic leadership for the country’s Digital Health activities which includes as a critical core component activities to ensure availability of data to use in addressing its HIV epidemic and associated opportunistic diseases such as TB. Within this mandate, the DHU manages various health datasets and their associated data products, including the patient level HIV and TB dataset.

In the last four years, Data.FI South Africa has provided direct support to National DHU the enhance existing HIS platforms and governance, thereby informing management responses to well-defined gaps in HIV and TB programming and sustaining impact by supporting the transition of activities to local departments and partners through a central HIV and TB reporting service with custom analyses and user interfaces. A cornerstone of Data.FI's support in this area is driving efficiencies in HIV and TB program planning by making key data available for resource planning and decision making, as well as introducing machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to automate manual tasks, thus saving on costly human resource costs through robust, future proof digital systems.

Another key component of this activity relates to the mandated and legislated PEPFAR quarterly, semi-annual and annual reporting. A critical element in PEPFAR's accountability to the American people, the PEPFAR Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting (MER) indicators for HIV and TB are drawn from this system and form the basis for PEPFAR’s an