PROJECT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST (MALARIA DATA MANAGEMENT)

a. Performance Management 35%

• Leads the development and implementation of strategies to improve malaria data quality and data sharing, while establishing a culture of data-informed resource allocation within the host-country malaria control program in the Ministry of Health (MoH).


• Provides technical guidance to the host-country malaria control program, in order to build capacity in the conceptualization, development, design, administration, and monitoring of various information systems necessary for malaria control, including for malaria case management, vector control, and the supply chain of malaria commodities.


• Advises the supervisor, Office Chief, Mission Director and Deputy Mission Director, and others on local matters of importance to data quality, use, and transformation efforts, and providing oversight of IP programs.


• Provides guidance to other Mission colleagues, USG offices, and with IPs in the areas of data collection and use, and host-country malaria data systems.


• Provides technical expertise to other USAID/Mission Health Office staff in their performance monitoring, efforts as they relate to malaria program activities, including reviewing and providing technical feedback on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plans submitted by PMI-funded IPs.


• Liaises with PMI backstops, and with Surveillance, Monitoring and Evaluation (SM&E) and Data Integration Teams in USAID/Washington and at CDC/Atlanta, and Mission staff overseeing PMI activities.


• Ensures that performance monitoring systems are in place, and that periodic, reliable measures and indicators of portfolio impact are established; and, collects and monitors malaria-program related performance data on an ongoing basis.


• Contributes to performance monitoring reviews and reports, PMI reporting requirements, Portfolio Reviews, the annual Performance Plan and Report, as well as other reporting requirements.


• Facilitates the negotiation of data-sharing agreements between the Mission and relevant host-government institutions, including the MoH and others.

b. Data Management 35%

• Provides technical leadership to all areas of data management, including ensuring appropriate data collection (manual and automated), inventorying, and cataloguing in the PMI data platform, for all malaria-related datasets (e.g., financial, programmatic, epidemiological, entomological, supply chain, demographic).


• Designs, facilitates, and promotes efficient means to collect, organize, clean, store, analyze, and share disparate, complex datasets, with attention to security and confidentiality, and with sensitivity to the country context.


• Applies sound data science principles and methods to objectively and systematically track changes, and to measure progress towards national targets for malaria control in the host country.


• Conducts rigorous analysis of data from a variety of sources to locate implementation obstacles and opportunities, and to employ cutting-edge approaches and tools to generate visualizations.


• Facilitates the establishment and institutionalization of data use processes, with a focus on reducing the time in the information-to-decision cycle.


• Conducts data quality assessments on key performance indicators included in the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plans for PMI-funded IPs, as required under USAID policy (ADS 200).


• Trains and mentors the host-country and Mission colleagues in data analysis and visualization.

c. Program/Project/Activity Management 30%

• Serves as a COR/AOR or Activity Manager (AM) for malaria data systems strengthening related projects, with responsibility for providing financial and programmatic oversight to ensure contracts and grants achieve anticipated results, and are linked to and enhance attainment of the Health Office, Mission and USG objectives.

  
  
  

  Conduct site visits as required in order to monitor progress, and to provide technical and programmatic recommendations to ensure effectiveness, efficiency, and judicious use of USG funding.

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