Pact Strategic Information Manager, Community-Based Violence Prevention and Linkages to Response in South Africa

Pact Strategic Information Manager, Community-Based Violence Prevention and Linkages to Response in South Africa

At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. The promise of a healthy life. Of a decent livelihood. Of sustainable natural resources that benefit communities.

Now more than ever in its 46-year history, Pact is helping millions of people who are poor and marginalized discover and build their own solutions and take ownership over their future.

Pact enables systemic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy, and take part in the benefits that nature provides.

Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems, and transforming markets into a force for development.

Department Overview:

Pact seeks a Strategic Information Manager for a PEPFAR-funded Community-Based Violence Prevention and Linkages to Response in South Africa program.

The five-year program will reduce GBV and intimate partner violence (IPV), which is essential to achieving epidemic control in South Africa.

Position Purpose

Reporting to the COP, the Strategic Information Manager will be the lead technical expert responsible for all strategic information responsibilities related to the program, including all monitoring, evaluation, analytics, and reporting of performance and results.

S/he will lead Activity efforts to strengthen monitoring and evaluation, and performance reporting within the geographic area of Activity, which may include overseeing support to community organizations to monitor, document and analyze the performance of their HIV services and activities and ensure data quality.

S/he will liaise with relevant technical advisers and counterparts responsible for district and provincial level strategic information and monitoring and evaluation and support coordination with national management information system.

Key Responsibilities:

Assist the Program Manager and COP to design the overall measurement system for the project to include outcome measures at the end of the project

Assist partners to develop strong M&E systems to track programming to share with Pact and the donor

Providing training and mentoring to partners and staff to ensure the implementation of strong M&E systems

Assist with development of the M&E Plan for the project, including decision on and definition of key indicators, targets and systems for measurements

Collect, aggregate, analyze and present data about the project for learning and reporting to the donor.

Basic Requirements:

A Bachelor’s degree in public health, epidemiology, social work, monitoring & evaluation, demography, biostatistics, statistics, analytics or a related field is required.

A Master’s degree is preferred;

Minimum of 8 years of work experience in designing, establishing, and managing monitoring and evaluation systems, ensuring data quality, and managing data intensive, performance-based programs funded by PEPFAR;

Demonstrated ability to be the senior technical specialist and as a senior subject matter expert in data analytics;

Demonstrated ability to perform robust data extraction from internal and external information systems;

Demonstrated ability to perform complex data analytics utilizing Microsoft Excel, STATA, and/or Business Intelligence tools;

Demonstrated ability to prepare expert quality data visualizations;

Demonstrated ability to perform complex data quality analyses and make recommendations based on findings;

Demonstrated ability to portray complex data sets in easy to understand formats including visualizations;

Demonstrated working knowledge of South Africa’s health and social service information systems and monitoring and evaluation processes as it relates to data collection for performance-based reporting;

Demonstrated knowledge and working experience in the use of mapping and other similar tools (including computer software programs) to target program interventions and resources; and

Demonstrated written, presentation, communication and organizational skills in English.

Professional experience in sub-Saharan Africa is required, South African work experience preferred. South African National preferred.

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factors.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should apply online by 23 November 2018

For more information and job application details, see; Pact Strategic Information Manager, Community-Based Violence Prevention and Linkages to Response in South Africa

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