Scope of Work

Overview:

The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer will ensure M&E activities, frameworks, plans and indicators capture project performance. As a key member of the project team, the M&E Officer will work under the guidance of Program Director and collaborate with program and technical colleagues to design, implement and supervise M&E activities, promoting a culture of data use to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes. The M&E Officer will support documentation and dissemination of program successes and challenges. The M&E Officer will also establish standardized data management systems and processes. He / She will work with the district and division level staff and coordinate with government authorities to collect and assess performance data.  

Responsibilities:

• Develop M&E framework, plan, data collection tools, and ensure quality of data through data verification procedures, including routine data quality audits
• Establish and maintain data management system
• Develop and oversee data flow pattern that will ensure timely data collection and reporting
• Contribute to the development of a community tracking system for women, babies, community health workers and facility providers to improve facility-community referrals
• Support project efforts to strengthen the national health management information system, such as inclusion of postpartum family planning (PPFP) indicators
• Strengthen M&E capacity of project staff, implementing partners and facility staff
• Provide technical assistance to government counterparts to improve quality and use of data, including introduction on collection and use of PPFP data
• Provide substantial and creative inputs to the creation of project reports, presentations, abstracts, and publications papers
• Provide leadership to project staff on use of data for decision-making
• Prepare data monthly for project decision-making, and provide inputs on quarterly donor reports
• Represent Jhpiego at relevant M&E working groups, public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations

Qualifications:

• Bachelors’ degree in statistics, public health, sociology, demography or other social science area is required; Masters’ degree preferred
• Minimum six (6) year years of experience in M&E for health and/or development projects, experience in family planning or maternal health preferred
• Experience in health management information systems (including DHIS2), reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation
• Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages (e.g., SPSS, Stata, R)
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills in English
• Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams
• Excellent people and partnership skills
• Availability and willingness to travel up to 50% time

Application Deadline: January 25, 2019