Options Consultancy Services Limited is a leading global health consultancy established in 1992 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Marie Stopes International. We manage health programmes that ensure vulnerable women and children can access the high quality health services they need. We work with partners to co-create and implement locally informed solutions to complex health problems. This includes governments, development partners, NGOs, civil society and health workers. Our programming is flexible, evidence-based and politically informed. This means we adapt to changing contexts, use data to inform our decisions and ensure our approach is appropriate. Our focus is always on building local skills and systems that last.
Nepal Health Sector Support Programme (NHSSP) is a technical assistance programme to the Government of Nepal’s Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), funded with UK Aid, designed to support the goals of Nepal Health Sector Strategy (2015/16 - 2020/21) and contribute to the MoHP’s efforts to provide quality health services leaving no-one behind. It is implemented by a consortium led by Options Consultancy Limited, with HERD International and Oxford Policy Management.
The Data for Decision-making (D4D) Provincial Coordinator will provide technical assistance (TA) under the D4D thematic area to the sub-national governments. The objective of this post is to provide effective technical inputs to the Provincial Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) and Provincial Health Directorate (PHD) to enable them to deliver against the objectives of NHSP 3. The focus is especially on ensuring that high quality data is generated and used by capacitated duty bearers at the sub-national level for all decision-making. Under the leadership of the D4D Thematic Team Lead, the D4D Provincial Coordinator will develop the framework for providing technical support under this thematic area at sub-national levels and oversee its technical delivery to ensure thematic priorities are met. The key purpose of the D4D thematic area is to ensure evidence-based planning and decision-making is practiced and embedded in government processes sustainably.
The D4D Provincial Coordinator has overall responsibility for providing strategic technical direction to this thematic area within the focal province and ensuring integration with the other thematic areas at the provincial level, and that evidence from implementation is reflected in MoSD policy, planning, budgeting and programmes. They will provide robust technical leadership at the provincial level to support capacity enhancement for MoSD/PHD and relevant sub-national government bodies as needed, to improve generation of high-quality evidence and its used in decision-making.