Monitoring and Evaluation Director

Job summary    

Under the supervision of the chief of party the M&E director is responsible to lead the M&E activities of USAID ISHDO Family-focused HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment activity in Oromia and Gambella regions.  She/He will be responsible to support the design and oversee the implementation of M&E activities, develop guidelines, standard operating procedures, training manuals and provide technical support to implementing partners in close coordination with technical staffs and partners. She/he will be also responsible for the collection of strategic information, analysis, and dissemination of evidence-based data use for decision-making. 
The M&E director will collaborate with technical Partners in the implementation of electronic community case management through Unified data system (commcare) and support the rollout of capacity building to Implementing partners. S/he ensure that routine data quality assessments and/or data quality monitoring activities on a quarterly basis, develop and implement data quality improvement interventions in close collaboration with partners. 
The M&E director will support ISHDO Data collection tools are developed to track activities, output and result level indicators and ensure that accurate, verifiable, and complete data (expenditure, MER and custom indicators) are reported to USAID /PEPFAR and Regional health bureaus and other stakeholders in a timely fashion.
 

Job responsibilities    

•    Lead the development of MEL plan, Performance monitoring plan of the project in close collaboration with program team 
•    lead the adoption, development of guides, tools, SOPs for MEL of the project 
•    lead the data system workforce to identify system improvements along with donor and technical partners 
•    Lead capacity building training on Unified data system, data capturing, analysis and reporting to IPs and field staffs.
•    Responsible for track, monitoring on regular bases, MER and custom indicators and data visualization for the project leads and report support 
•    lead the development of quality improvement /quality management activities that defines, monitors an analyzes HIV prevention, care and treatment activities of the project 
•    lead the Use of commcare application electronic database for client data record and visualization to Partners 
•    Enforce routine data quality assessments necessary for the program systematically  
•    Conduct of assessments and surveys, analyzing data collected, and facilitate the use of data for decision-making. 
•    Undertake the preparation, dissemination of best practices, project briefs, and success stories.
•    Produce timely, accurate, and complete reports that meet USAID standards and requirements.   
•    Overseeing the application of Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) principles to inform program implementation and management.
•    Refining the design of the program M&E system, clearly identifying the users and the utility of the data/information;
•    Refining M&E indicators and adapt M&E tools to meet program needs, which may include pre- and post- tests, focus group interview protocols, community survey tools, and baseline, mid-term, and end-line survey instruments;
•    Managing and safeguarding data collection, train program staff, and supervise M&E activities of staff and sub-grantees;

Required education and experiences   

•    MSC/BSC Master’s in Monitoring & Evaluation, public health, social studies or related field  
•    8 to 10 years of progressive experience in the monitoring and evaluation of HIV projects with and minimum of last 6 years PEPFAR’s M&E experience is preferred
•    Work experience in operating M & E systems and tools and managing data intensive programs preferably in HIV/AIDS programs. 
•    Experience with qualitative and quantitative M&E data collection and analysis methods, including tracking of indicators 
•    Familiarity with data analysis tools and software’s and USAID data systems (DATIM, commcare, STATA, etc) 
•    Knowledge of M&E and data quality management related to health programs, preferably on HIV and AIDS programs 
•    Demonstrated experience and knowledge of USAID and GOE monitoring and evaluation of health programs to provide support and guidance to project staff on design, monitoring and evaluation is highly desirable. 
 

Personal skills    

•    Demonstrated skills in knowledge management 
•    Strong interpersonal skills and positive professional attitude 
•    Excellent written and communication skills in English and local language knowledge* Oromiffa   
•    Ability and great interest to work in team and be good team player.  
•    Skills in MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management systems, USAID web-based monitoring, evaluation and reporting system such as COMMCARE.  

How To Apply

Interested and qualified applicants should apply through Ethio jobs.