Data Use Technical Advisor

**Data Use Technical Advisor**

We are searching for an experienced Data Use Technical Advisor in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

**Project Overview**

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. It focuses on family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), primary healthcare, and global health security (GHS). The project’s 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. PROPEL Health will also focus on improving policy, financing, and governance of GHS, disease surveillance, health emergency response, and risk communication.

The project is seeking to recruit a Data Use Technical 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.

**Scope of Work**:
The Data Use Technical Advisor will provide technical assistance for PROPEL Health Madagascar, including data analysis, data use, and development technical documents, training and mentoring for Global Health Security under the One Health approach. The Data Use Advisor will leverage data from routine health information systems and existing quality improvement and quality assurance platforms to improve the reporting and use of GHS indicators. Moreover this position will support the implementation of high impact data review structures (such as emergency operations centers or epidemic control rooms). This position is based in Antananarivo, Madagascar, with occasional in-country travel.

**Primary Duties and Responsibilities**:
Data Use for Global Health Security under One Health Approach
- Leads a participatory review priority GHS indicator, identify and define priority information needs, gather stakeholder requirements, and map data for data analysis and visualization products.
- Implement quality improvement and quality assurance strategies.
- Build effective working relationships with government and implementing partners.
- Provide training for government officials to launch epidemic control room meetings for data review and use which identifies the root cause of performance problems and incorporates the Plan-Do-See Act (PDSA) QA/QI approach for engaging in appreciative inquiry and corrective action planning.
- Provide training, mentoring, and technical support to government counterparts, local partners, and teams to strengthen capacity to manage, analyze and visualize data to inform program decisions
- Promote knowledge management efforts aimed at tracking impact of data use strategies.
- In coordination with other team members to carry out assessments, desk reviews, surveys and any other data collection and analysis activity relevant to the project implementation.

Monitoring and Evaluation/Collaborative Learning:

- Reporting data related to technical activities within his/her area of expertise.
- Development of activity documentation (briefs, reports, PPTs, etc.) and provide substantial contribution for the development of concepts notes, workplans and any other document related to the activity deliverables under their technical lead.
- Interacts with national and international actors and other experts to bring new and “cutting edge” ideas into program implementation.
- Share lessons learned and country experiences with other PROPEL Health countries and participate in other cross-learning activities or forums.
- Document, synthesize and disseminate results through nuggets, success stories or other channel