Project Description
Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC), a global project funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Department of State (DOS), that provides strategic technical assistance and direct service delivery to achieve HIV epidemic control among all at-risk populations; strengthen global health security (GHS), including outbreak response; expand tuberculosis detection and treatment (TB), improve maternal and child health (MCH), address malaria; and promote health systems strengthening (HSS) including supply chain management.
The EpiC Cameroon buy-in will support the continuation and expansion of life-saving HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support services in Cameroon, building upon the foundational work of previous PEPFAR-funded initiatives. The focus will be on strengthening community-led platforms and integrating them with facility-based systems to increase access to quality HIV-related services, particularly for populations at higher risk of HIV, Children and Adolescents Living with HIV (C/ALHIV), HIV-exposed infants (HEIs), and their caregivers. The program will contribute to closing gaps across pediatric HIV cascades, ensuring children are healthy, safe, stable, and schooled through comprehensive case management. Collaboration with the Government of Cameroon (including the Ministry of Public Health and the National AIDS Control Committee), PEPFAR clinical partners, the Global Fund, and local community organizations will be essential to ensure the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based, family-centered where necessary and population-specific interventions.
Job Description
The EpiC Cameroon Senior Strategic Information (SI) Advisor will report to the Project Director and lead the implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities, as well as data analytics and performance reporting within the targeted regions for the EpiC Cameroon project. The Senior SI Advisor will work closely with project leadership and country-level SI teams to strengthen or develop systems that track service delivery and performance in real time, with the goal of improving service quality and meeting reporting requirements. As the lead technical expert for strategic information s/he will work with EpiC project staff, implementing partners, government partners such as, Ministry of Public Health (MPH) Cameroon and National AIDS Control Committee (NACC), to ensure that M&E activities are appropriate and meet host country, Department of States (DoS) and EpiC monitoring and reporting requirements. S/he will lead efforts to strengthen partner M&E activities, and performance reporting across the country, including working with program sub-partners and key stakeholders to monitor, document and analyze the performance of their community HIV services and activities, ensure data quality and support continuous quality improvement (CQI). Additionally, the Senior Advisor will ensure that program strategies and activities are informed by global evidence and lessons learned from program data, applying expertise in monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management, and operations research.
Job Responsibilities:
Lead the design and implementation of M&E systems and tools and contributes to workplanning and reporting for the entire project;
Manages and coordinates with technical and programmatic staff members to ensure that activities are performed on time and target;
Build and maintain collaborative relationships with the partners regional teams, health service providers, local stakeholders and Cameroonian government partners, to provide support and guidance on project M&E activities, ensuring alignment with DoS and Cameroonian government partners reporting requirements.
Provide technical guidance, ensuring the CBO partners and zonal M&E teams are supported in the correct implementation and use of M&E tools and reporting platforms (as applicable), and adherence to complete, correct and timely reporting.
Train CBO partners and regional MEL staff in project M&E, especially data collection, management and analysis for use in decision-making and course correction.
Conduct routine monitoring visits to sites, conduct data quality assessments (DQAs) using approved tools and mentor implementing partners to strengthen data management and reporting capacity
Ensure that the quality of activities adheres to EpiC and PEPFAR standards by supporting the development and implementation of appropriate mechanisms to ensure quality.
Provide direct technical assistance and capacity building in the design and implementation of the M&E components of the activities in the communities served.