The Reaching Impact, Saturation, and Epidemic Control (RISE) project is a multi-year global project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) working with countries to achieve a shared vision of attaining and maintaining epidemic control, with stronger local partners capable of managing and achieving results through sustainable, self-reliant, and resilient health systems. RISE will support the National Department of Health (NDoH) in improving the quality of the national immunization program and service delivery. Furthermore, RISE will support the (NDoH) Expanded Program for Immunization (EPI) unit in strengthening its capacity-building activities for pandemic preparedness. To implement these activities, RISE is engaging a Pharmaceutical Policy Specialist to work with its partners in South Africa.
This role is a donor-funded position and is available on a consultancy basis from January to September 2025.
Activity | Number of Days | Timeline | Deliverable |
Inception meeting | 1 | January 2025 | Inception Report |
Develop a plan convert the NDOH EPI training material on the NDOH knowledge hub training material into online courses | 2 | January 2025 | Approved Plan |
Gather and identify existing NDOH EPI training material on the NDOH knowledge hub to be converted into online courses | 2 | January 2025 | List of NDOH EPI training material |
Review and update the NDOH EPI training material | 5 | February 2025 | Updated training material |
Convert NDOH EPI training material into online courses in collaboration with NDOH and RISE Teams | 30 | February-June 2025 | Final online courses for training |
Support the development of a plan to support the modelling of identified facilities into Ideal Vaccination Centers
| 5 | January 2025 | Approved Plan |
Develop/update facility quality assurance standards (QAS) for vaccination centres.
| 5 | February 2025 | Approved Facility QAS including a checklist |
Conduct pre-assessments and develop quality improvement (QI) plans at identified vaccination centers using the QAS checklist | 10 | February | QI plans |
Provide TA for QI adhering to the QAS | 30 | March-August 2025 | QI reports |
Deploy real-time digital solutions to strengthen safety systems for follow-up of post-vaccination events, enhance reporting, collation, and advanced analytics | 10 | March 2025 | Deployment Report |
Pilot Interactive Voice Recording (IVR) System & SMS, tele-caller support for taking vaccination feedback & reporting post-vaccination events | 20 | April-June 2025 | Pilot Report |
Draft and finalize report including recommendations, lessons learned, best practices for expanding to other facilities | 10 | September 2025 | Final Report |
Total | 130 |
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