Health Information, Epidemiology, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation

**Consultant Job Description**
**Health Information, Epidemiology, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation (HIERME) 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 short term consultant to join our team as a Secondee: Health Information, Epidemiology, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation (HIERME) Technical Expert 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 (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 critical and life-saving health programs. This position provides technical expertise to the National Department of Health (NDOH) in South Africa, supporting the development of integrated health information systems, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks, and strategic planning. The consultant will assist the NDOH in using data-driven insights for effective HIV and TB program management, reporting, and decision-making to ensure high-quality care and treatment services are sustained and optimized.

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 t