Global Health Security Specialist

Health Policy Expertise and Communication Advisor Job Description

PROMOTING RESULTS AND OUTCOMES THROUGH POLICY AND ECONOMIC LEVERS (PROPEL) HEALTH IS A USAID-FUNDED FIVE-YEAR PROJECT AWARDED TO PALLADIUM ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2022.

PROPEL Health aims to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy development and implementation; adequate, predictable, and sustainable health financing; enhanced government stewardship, transparency, and accountability; and use of evidence-based advocacy approaches at global, national, and subnational levels to promote best practices.

The project focuses on family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), primary healthcare, and global health security (GHS). The transformational technical strategy prioritizes localizing policy, advocacy, financing, and governance (PAFG) leadership, technical assistance, and capacity development to enhance resilience and sustainability.

PROPEL Health's country teams will serve as the technical and implementation driving force for Mission buy-ins and country-based core-funded activities. The project actively supports USAID's localization strategy by drawing on local actors and partners to co-create country programs and lead implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

PROPEL Health Madagascar will support the Government of Madagascar (GOM) to advance the national Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and One Health approach. PROPEL Health will strengthen the government's capacity to design and implement health security policies; mobilize and efficiently utilize financing for emergency response and essential services; and better prepare the GOM to prevent emerging infectious disease threats (both human and zoonotic), including cholera, Mpox, and Marburg virus.

The project is seeking to recruit a Health Policy Expertise and Communication Advisor for PROPEL Health Madagascar. This is a local hire and moving expenses or expatriate allowances are not associated with the position. This position is based in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

• Work closely with the PROPEL Health Madagascar Country Director, other members of the PROPEL Health team locally and at HQ, government and technical experts in supporting teams to develop and implement robust MEL systems that generate high quality data for performance improvement.
• Lead the development and implementation of MEL plans as advised in the project document and capture and report on PROPEL Health indicators.
• Lead the identification, documentation, and dissemination of project reporting, experiences, lessons learned, and success stories to determine the effectiveness of project interventions.
• Support the use of electronic data management systems.

• Work with HQ-based staff to support project monitoring, evaluation, and learning efforts, including identifying and documenting project results in accordance with PROPEL Health project indicators, and contributing to quarterly and semi-annual reporting for the donor.
• Produce and/or contribute to the writing and/or translation of technical reports, briefing notes, and other documents including quarterly and semi-annual reports, policy briefs, activity updates, and communications materials.
• Work with the PROPEL Health staff to provide country-level specifications for the M&E CLA platform.
• Work with PROPEL Health staff to support project monitoring, evaluation, and learning efforts, including collaborating with country and HQ-level activity leads to identify and document project results in accordance with PROPEL Health project indicators.
• Work with activity leads to review results on a quarterly basis, verifying supporting documentation, submitting them to the PROPEL Health M&E CLA platform, and incorporating them into quarterly reports.
• Lead the report writing for quarterly reports to the regional Mission and support the development of routine and technical reports at country, regional, and project level, as appropriate.
• Report PROPEL Health indicator data into mission-specific management information system along with narratives and supporting documentation.
• Provide mentoring as needed to colleagues (e.g. on baseline/indicator/target/results concepts).
• Conduct data collection and analysis. This will include supporting PROPEL Health staff and government counterparts to (1) update dashboards; (2) conducting modelling projects; (3) conducting secondary data analysis from DHIS2 and other related data platforms, etc. This will require presenting results.