Technical Advisor (Strategic Information) - Key Populations Programme (Sex Workers and Transgender) Wits RHI

Main purpose of the job:

• To provide strategic and technical direction to the Key Populations monitoring and evaluation strategy in line with program and organizational objectives and guide data utilization for research and policy outcomes

Location:

• Blackwood - Parktown, Johannesburg

Key performance areas:

• Develop M&E strategy and plans within national and/or donor guidelines
• Oversee activities of the Key Populations facility and community-based PrEP and Care & Treatment monitoring, compliance, and reporting portfolio
• Provide guidance towards appropriate collection and reporting of routine district output data and data management
• Provide M&E technical assistance, as required to Key Populations Programme projects
• Identify and implement efficiencies in data collection, compilation, review, reporting, feedback, and action plans
• Enhance internal and external capacity for Key Populations Programme district teams
• Identify opportunities for, and conduct M&E-related operations research at sites/projects supported by the
• Key Populations Programme
• Identify Implementation Research questions
• Where applicable, write grant proposals, protocols, and ethics applications to fund relevant research
• Undertake research design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination
• Ensure appropriate and timely communication/feedback of research findings to stakeholders
• Produce publications and/or reports relating to research
• Support documentation of good practice
• Produce abstracts and conference presentations
• Contribute to the compilation of non-research related reports
• Attend to all M&E staffing requirements and administration for a national team of 30 individuals
• Serve as point of contact for M&E for stakeholders, donors, and internally where appropriate
• Provide M&E support for RFAs (when applicable)
• Contribute to the preparation for donor evaluations/audits of the Key Populations Programme

Required minimum education and training:

• Master’s degree in an appropriate discipline
• Qualification or training in monitoring and evaluation systems or health management information systems
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and data analysis packages

Required minimum work experience:

• Minimum 8 years senior management experience of complex projects
• Minimum 5 years leading monitoring and evaluation components of projects (strategy and implementation)
• Demonstrated experience improving health data collection, analysis, dissemination, and use in decision making
• Programming

Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities:

• Understanding of the challenges facing Key Populations in the health context
• Previous experience in Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services and ART adherence support
• Experience working with donor-driven programs, writing M&E plans, work plans and protocols, and providing training/capacity building
• Demonstrated leadership, management, and change management experience, including the ability to manage a diverse team
• Positive, energetic team leader with an ability to adapt to complex situations, manage stress, deliver goals proactively
• Organized with a thorough and accurate approach to work, attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills

TO APPLY:

• Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
• Please Apply Online and complete your registration on Ditto Hire (our application tracking system) to enable and protect you as a candidate to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions. This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL. However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market.
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• Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
• The closing date for all applications: 28 February 2022.
• Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
• Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful.
• Note WHC, in accordance with their Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.
• PLEASE NOTE: Our Client, WHC - RHI, maintains mandatory Covid-19 requirements, and as such only Covid-19 vaccinated incumbents will be considered for positions.

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