Solutions Advisor: Strategic Information

Experience : 5-7 years

Panagora Group is a social enterprise dedicated to providing high-quality, high-impact international health, development, and learning consulting. We are a dynamic woman
- and employee-owned small business partner focused on market-based and integrated local solutions that strengthen country capacity and independence; and on learning, communications, and technology solutions to accelerate and heighten impact. As a small business, we are able to implement novel and innovative approaches using highly participatory approaches to mobilize community, civil society, and government energy in defining and owning solutions, and to promote inclusive development that benefits all groups.

**Background
The Technical Support Services (TSS) Activity helps USAID/South Africa and Regional Health Office (RHO) to address technical priorities and develop creative, innovative solutions to strategically allocate resources, strengthen connections with partners, and replicate best practices and effective program models. Through the TSS contract, Panagora Group augments capacity by providing technical, operational, and administrative support to USAID’s largest health portfolio. TSS deploys advisors in response to USAID requests for priority work with government stakeholders, implementing partners, and/or other entities. TSS supports Health Office staff and teams to integrate creative solutions into routine work. TSS also provides international and local expertise for surge support, as needed, for USAID Program Cycle requirements, planning, development, outreach, communications, and Health Office human resource functions.

**Description**
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**Position
The Solutions Advisor | Strategic Information provides public health programming, reengineering, data management, analytic, and visualization support across TSS projects to support USAID/South Africa as well as USAID regional health offices (including but not limited to RHO, Eswatini, Lesotho, and Mozambique) to meet critical program objectives. S/he will be responsible for various tasks as described below; for these tasks the Solutions Advisor | Strategic Information will both complete the work and as requested develop the capacity of colleagues, USAID, government or implementing partner counterparts. The Solutions Advisor | Strategic Information will integrate innovative solutions to all projects, leverage what has worked previously, and adapt approaches to integrate lessons learned and to customize solutions to the unique needs of each Health Office.

**Principal**
**Duties**
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**Responsibilities
- The Solutions Advisor | Strategic Information will support one or more of the following tasks, core activities and deliverables as listed below and as assigned, based on TSS’ work plans. For these activities the consultant may be asked to complete the tasks and/or develop the capacity of colleagues, USAID, government or implementing partner counterparts to complete these tasks. Other activities/tasks may be assigned based on the needs of TSS as defined in our work plan.- Data management support _
- Support the implementation of strategies to improve data management and reporting including data collection, data quality assurance, and data sharing to improve routine data reporting.
- Support with the review of current USAID reporting requirements, processes, and tools, including identifying gaps and areas for improvement and provid e recommendations.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to find innovative solutions to programmatic and operational challenges related to data management and reporting.
- Conceptualize and design data cleaning and data quality assessment (DQA) approaches and tools.
- Create, review, and refine both written and visual project content and deliverables for a diverse audience, including process flow diagrams, standard operating procedures, and training slide decks.
- Analytics support- Conceptualize comprehensive responses to data requests from a variety of stakeholders through the design and development of metrics, the comprehensive interpretation of the analytics, and generating and providing recommendations.
- Support with the preliminary review of datasets for integrity as necessary and transforming data sets.
- Support with the development of guidelines and best practices related to data science and analytics.
- Work across USAID country teams (including South Africa, RHO, Mozambique, Eswatini, Lesotho) to use priority data to highlight programmatic success and opportunities for improvement in issue briefs or presentations in a variety of settings.
- Conceptualize, facilitate and contribute to communities of practice to bring the latest knowledge and resources to influence data analytics, visualization, and best practices for programmatic results.
- Data Visualization support- Using the Tableau visualization software and architecture create interactive dashboards and accompanying summary interpretations for USAID health office