Job Information
Project/Activity
USAID/PIMMELA
Industry
USAID
City
Manila
State/Province
Manila
Country
Philippines
Zip/Postal Code
0000000
HIghest Level of Education
Master's
Work Experience
5-7 years
Job Description
Position: Data Analyst and Mid-level Evaluation Specialist
Location: Philippines
Reports to: Evaluation Team Leader
Period of Performance: July 2024 October 2024
Background
Panagora Group is a social enterprise dedicated to providing high-quality, high-impact international development, global health, and learning consulting. We are a dynamic, woman- and employee-owned small business partner focused on market-based and integrated local solutions that strengthen country capacity and independence; and on learning, communications, and technology solutions to accelerate and heighten the impact.
Panagora provides technical and advisory services related to monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning to USAID/Philippines. Under the USAID/Philippines, Pacific Islands, and Mongolia Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Activity (PIMMELA), we are supporting the USAID Office of Health (OH) in conducting an evaluation of the Primary Care Provider Network (PCPN) Sandbox implementation.
Within the integrated local health system reform framework of the Republic Act No. 11223 or the Universal Health Care (UHC) Act and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR), the PhilHealth is currently implementing a sandbox setting of a network contracting arrangement of primary care providers of its Konsultasyong Sulit at Tama or Konsulta Package. The Konsulta is a primary care benefit package which covers a set of individual-based health services that includes initial and follow-up primary care consultations, health screening and assessment, and access to selected diagnostics services and medicines for various conditions, including communicable and non-communicable diseases and sexual and reproductive health.
PhilHealth considers the primary care provider network (PCPN), a group of Konsulta Package Providers (public, private, or mixed) with established interoperable system for efficient provision of services under Konsulta benefit package, as its first step and the core to the formation of comprehensive health care provider networks (HCPNs), covering all three levels of care.
The PCPN Sandbox is the first small-scale live testing of innovations in a controlled environment under PhilHealth's supervision of Universal Health Care (UHC) reforms. It has been implemented by the local governments of the City of Baguio and three provinces: Bataan, Quezon, and South Cotabato from July 2023 and will end by June
The PCPN Sandbox aims to enable PhilHealth to contract pre-identified LGUs and private health care providers to test PCPN innovations and model(s) to promote effective and efficient delivery of Konsulta benefits. It has the following objectives:
(1) Test network contracting models in implementing and improving utilization and delivery of Konsulta services to determine operational and financial sustainability in selected sites
(2) Promote formation of Primary Care Provider Networks, specifically: (a) increase registration of PhilHealth members to Konsulta providers; (b) improve utilization of Konsulta services; and (c) prepare for referral and service delivery arrangements for a more comprehensive set of services within a network setting
(3) Establish standards for contracting of provider networks
(4) Establish and manage a Special Health Fund (SHF) for local government units (LGUs) or pooled fund for private health sectors, as applicable, to sustain and improve health systems operations
(5) Assess the readiness of the LGUs, private health care facilities and PhilHealth in the adoption of network contracting mechanisms
(6) Provide guidance to the Commission on Audit (COA), Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF), Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and other concerned agencies on the issuance of respective guidelines on the implementation of health care provider network contracting
This evaluation will assess the contribution of the implementation of the PCPN Konsulta Sandbox as a reform initiative to operationalize local health system integration under the UHC and to enhance delivery of primary health care services in the four (4) sandbox sites.
Position Summary
Panagora Group seeks a short-term technical consultant to serve as Data Analyst and Mid-level Evaluation Specialist for the Evaluation of the Primary Care Provider Network (PCPN) Sandbox Implementation. S/he will serve as member of the evaluation team, providing technical support in terms of data collection, management, quality assurance, analysis, and visualization. S/he will participate in all aspects of the evaluation, including planning, data collection, data analysis, and report writing. The evaluation is expected to be carried out between July-October 2024. The position will report to the Evaluation Team Leader and will work closely with the performance evaluation team and PIMMELA's Senior Health M&E Specialist.
Responsibilities:
Participate in evaluation team planning, consultative, and briefing meetings with USAID OH and PIMMELA.
Carry out a virtual desk review of existing literature, project documents and secondary data and contribute to developing the PowerPoint presentation of initial desk review findings during the design phase debriefing with USAID OH.
Provide technical inputs to the evaluation design report, including the evaluation design matrix, performance data analysis plan, and secondary data analysis (SDA) plan; designing the primary data collection tools and protocol; developing the evaluation timeline; and creating table templates for the final report.
Support in integrating USAID feedback to finalize the evaluation design report.
Contribute to the development and pre-test of evaluation protocols and tools, conduct of orientation/data quality workshop on the evaluation protocols and tools.
Participate in data collection by conducting key informant interviews and focus group discussions with USAID's ReachHealth key staff and other donor agencies involved in the PCPN Sandbox implementation, DOH staff, local government unit officers, service delivery points health care workers, community volunteers, and beneficiaries of health services (women, men, young people).
Participate in field visits in selected sites to perform KIIs and/or FGDs, observe the PCPN Sandbox interventions, and conduct client interviews.
Contribute to the data consolidation, analysis, and report writing of the evaluation draft report. Provide technical inputs on the methodology, sub-analysis of available Konsulta and other secondary data, and analysis of primary data.
Provide data visualization for the slide presentation of draft findings for USAID OH, DOH, PhilHealth, and other key stakeholders.
Revise the relevant sections of the draft evaluation report to incorporate comments and suggestions from the preliminary results presentation.
Contribute to the dissemination of final results, including data visualization for the slide presentation.
Participate in learning events to discuss results.
Requirements
Master's degree in a relevant discipline preferably with a health focus (e.g., economics, biostatistics, epidemiology)
At least 5 years experience in field-based and remote evaluation and/or research
Experience designing and implementing qualitative and quantitative data collection
Experience coordinating and/or supervising on-the-ground data collection efforts related to evaluation and/or research in the Philippines
Experience in data management
Experience performing descriptive and advance statistical analyses of quantitative data using statistical software (preferably Stata)
Able to analyze qualitative data using analytic software (such as NVivo, ATLAS.ti, MAXQDA, etc.)
Proficient in English
Previous work with USAID health projects/activities in the Philippines
Familiarity with health programs and local health systems in the Philippines
Local consultant, based in the Philippines
Panagora Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.
