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Location: Throughout South Africa

Panagora South Africa is supporting USAID/South Africa’s Health Office through two major activities: Technical Support Services (TSS) and Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL). Both activities support USAID to meet its HIV and TB program goals in the country.

Panagora (MERL) is looking for dynamic, results-focused individuals experienced in health system strengthening, quality improvement, systems engineering, and/or health facility management to conduct site visits to South African health facilities as part of the Siyenza campaign.

Siyenza, which means “We are doing it!”, is an intensive facility-based campaign implemented by USAID to support South Africa’s Department of Health (DoH) in achieving specific HIV performance targets, including providing treatment to two million more people living with HIV and retaining a total of 6.1 million people in care by 2020.

The Siyenza approach focuses on repeated site visits by USAID staff or Panagora consultants, accompanied by DoH officials wherever possible, to support the provision of high-quality HIV services. This support spans the HIV care cascade and UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets – case finding, linkage/initiation, and retention – as well as core health facility systems integral to service delivery.

The site visits focus on challenges and barriers and help identify ways to address them, documenting specific actions and following up to support their implementation. Standard tools collect qualitative and quantitative data about each facility to record, analyze, and monitor service delivery performance and progress.

The selected candidate/s will work in a supportive and proactive manner with health facilities to document challenges, highlight best practices, and set achievable facility-level goals. This role incorporates data collection, synthesis and prioritization of issues, and documentation and presentation of findings using standard tools and Microsoft PowerPoint. Candidates should be fluent in English and another South African official language and be familiar with South Africa’s health system, including NDoH’s policies and procedures (particularly those related to HIV and TB). Ideally, s/he should have prior HIV program experience with USAID, CDC, and/or PEPFAR. S/he should have strong communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills, as well as analytical thinking and attention to detail.

This role involves significant travel within South Africa; candidate/s preferably based in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, or Western Cape provinces.

Minimum Requirements:

  • Medical or nursing degree, or a postgraduate degree in Public Health, Health Systems Strengthening, Epidemiology, or a related field
  • 8-10 years of Health sector/programmatic experience
  • Demonstrated problem-solving capacity and quality improvement experience, particularly with supporting complex field-based challenges

To apply, please visit our employment portal on this link

Closing Date: 18 April 2020

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Panagora was launched in January of 2011. We entered the scene at a turning point in health and development. Everyone is eager to mix fresh ideas and innovations with what is now decades of knowledge on what works in development, so as to build a more effective, efficient and inclusive development future.As a woman-owned small business, Panagora offers the best of all worlds—the efficacy, discipline and results orientation of the private sector, and proven ability to manage complex and fast-moving programs, with the special enthusiasm, agility, and creativity of a small business.We are living in the midst of a development renaissance, where the importance of what we do is widely recognized. While we can trace this to some difficult times—in particular the tragic events of 9/11—there is now widespread agreement that helping other countries is a moral, economic, and security imperative.This recognition has spawned an intense debate on foreign aid – on its purpose, delivery, and impact. The debate has helped clarify some of the precepts all development professionals hold dear: in particular, the critical importance of host country ownership, capacity-building, sustainability, and integration.In health, these shifts have helped create a new consensus, crystallized in number of strategies and organizational reforms. Increasingly, we are leaving behind vertical programming, pilots that don’t reach scale, and efforts that bypass national systems, the local private sector, and communities.Happily, there is broad agreement on the need to focus scarce talent and resources on systems strengthening; care that is delivered in an integrated and client-oriented way with true community engagement and ultimate impact; reaching scale; and stewarding knowledge so as to maximize cherished investments. We are being called upon to intensify innovation in development, through the use of new technologies, management of knowledge and in how we reach out to governments, communities, NGOs and the private sector.Aid reform has put a spotlight on the value of additional voices and perspectives—and new sources of innovation—will bring. By emphasizing the need for expanded small business participation, it recognizes the important role international development companies play in achieving the objectives of foreign assistance.These landscape shifts offer unique and exciting opportunities for experienced professionals and new approaches. Panagora provides both. With creativity, vision and a new outlook, Panagora provides proven management and implementation skills. Panagora offers out-of-the-box thinking in a way that utilizes trusted expertise and reliable systems. Panagora embraces the quest to make our development dollars ever more effective, by harnessing technology better, bringing cutting-edge approaches from the private sector such as social franchising and innovating with new community engagement approaches.

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0 USD South Africa CF 3201 Abc road Consultancy , 40 hours per week Panagora Group

Location: Throughout South AfricaPanagora South Africa is supporting USAID/South Africa’s Health Office through two major activities: Technical Support Services (TSS) and Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL). Both activities support USAID to meet its HIV and TB program goals in the country.Panagora (MERL) is looking for dynamic, results-focused individuals experienced in health system strengthening, quality improvement, systems engineering, and/or health facility management to conduct site visits to South African health facilities as part of the Siyenza campaign.Siyenza, which means “We are doing it!”, is an intensive facility-based campaign implemented by USAID to support South Africa’s Department of Health (DoH) in achieving specific HIV performance targets, including providing treatment to two million more people living with HIV and retaining a total of 6.1 million people in care by 2020.The Siyenza approach focuses on repeated site visits by USAID staff or Panagora consultants, accompanied by DoH officials wherever possible, to support the provision of high-quality HIV services. This support spans the HIV care cascade and UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets – case finding, linkage/initiation, and retention – as well as core health facility systems integral to service delivery.

The site visits focus on challenges and barriers and help identify ways to address them, documenting specific actions and following up to support their implementation. Standard tools collect qualitative and quantitative data about each facility to record, analyze, and monitor service delivery performance and progress.The selected candidate/s will work in a supportive and proactive manner with health facilities to document challenges, highlight best practices, and set achievable facility-level goals. This role incorporates data collection, synthesis and prioritization of issues, and documentation and presentation of findings using standard tools and Microsoft PowerPoint. Candidates should be fluent in English and another South African official language and be familiar with South Africa’s health system, including NDoH’s policies and procedures (particularly those related to HIV and TB). Ideally, s/he should have prior HIV program experience with USAID, CDC, and/or PEPFAR. S/he should have strong communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills, as well as analytical thinking and attention to detail.This role involves significant travel within South Africa; candidate/s preferably based in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, or Western Cape provinces.Minimum Requirements:

  • Medical or nursing degree, or a postgraduate degree in Public Health, Health Systems Strengthening, Epidemiology, or a related field
  • 8-10 years of Health sector/programmatic experience
  • Demonstrated problem-solving capacity and quality improvement experience, particularly with supporting complex field-based challenges

To apply, please visit our employment portal on this link

Closing Date: 18 April 2020

2020-04-19

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