Associate, M&E, Tier Implementation

Founded in 2002 by President William J. Clinton, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems around the world and expanding access to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and other illnesses. Based on the premise that business oriented strategy can facilitate solutions to global health challenges, CHAI acts as a catalyst to mobilize new resources and optimize the impact of these resources to save lives, via improved organization of commodity markets and more effective local management. By working in association with governments and other NGO partners, CHAI is focused on large scale impact and, to date, CHAI has secured lower pricing agreements for treatment options in more than 70 countries. In addition, CHAI’s teams are working side-by-side with over 30 governments to tackle many of the largest barriers to effective treatment and care. In 2011 the NDOH embarked upon an ambitious implementation of a standard monitoring system referred to as the 3-Tiered ART Monitoring Strategy, an activity CHAI has supported since inception.

Overview

CHAI will continue to support and strengthen the 3-Tiered Strategy and will embark on a series of innovative projects that aim to strengthen and institutionalize the 3-Tiered Monitoring System. The continued quality improvement of the ART program requires strong data systems. In the coming years, CHAI will continue this work by providing technical support and capacity building to the national and provincial Departments of Health (DoH) staff to improve the availability, quality and utilization of clinical and TB/HIV monitoring data. Proposed interventions will focus on improving data systems and data utilization in the provinces and districts. A key area of work will include capacity building to improve data driven decision-making through strengthened data use within the districts.

• Coordinate the TB Module implementation in provinces, in support of the National Department of Health.
• Kick-start and oversee provincial preparation for rollout of in-facility TB data collection and Mentorship of the TIER.Net Key Implementers (TKIs) on the ground.
• Provide the TKIs with technical guidance to implement in-facility change management activities
• Develop or adapt training and support materials
• Liaise with NDoH units to provide feedback and information sharing on progress
• Integrate processes for the monitoring the implementation of the TB Module with existing monitoring of TIER.Net rollout
• Quality assure trainings for TB/HIV integration in the districts
• Closely monitor data flow and submission, and preempt challenges with weak data quality or late data submissions.
• Once the TB Module is stable and in place in all facilities, the TIA will work with the NDoH, provinces and districts to oversee the removal of ETR from the (sub)districts
• Continued support to the maintenance of TIER.Net at the facility level.
• Create and ensure coordination platforms between partners are maintained
• Other responsibilities as requested by supervisor

• Have a tertiary level or Bachelor’s degree minimum in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics or equivalent experience,
• Minimum of 5 years proven experience in working with, and implementing, ART M&E systems
• Experience using TIER.Net
• Experience working with government
• Must be proficient using MS Office (especially Word, Excel and Access) and conducting internet research is essential;

Preferable Education And Experience

• Masters in public/global health or equivalent
• Familiarity with the SA government health management information system (the DHIS) a plus
• Knowledge working in SPSS and SAS, or other statistical software package, a plus