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Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Opportunity:
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves health by helping public and private organizations throughout the world to effectively manage people, medicines, money, and information. Working from more than 30 country offices and our Arlington, Virginia and Cambridge, Massachusetts US headquarters, our staff from 65 nations is highly regarded for its technical expertise, integrity, and commitment to making a lasting difference in health. We live our mission to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
MSH is seeking candidates for an upcoming five-year program in Ethiopia that will provide a comprehensive package of TB interventions to provide: quality DOTS, strengthened referral linkages to the community, technical assistance to the regional health bureaus (RHB) and Health Zones to improve program management of TB and MDR-TB, TB/HIV collaboration, and Health System Strengthening (HSS) by assisting with District (Woreda) Based Planning, institution of infection control, improved drug supply management, and CB-DOTS implemented in rural and urban areas through the health extension program (HEP). Preference will be given to applicants with relevant experience in Ethiopia.
Position is subject to project award.
[OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES:]
The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer is responsible is responsible for the overall management of monitoring and evaluation system for project.The position is aimed to increase both NTP’s and project staff’s capacity to monitor and evaluate the Program as well as provide support to their implementation in coordination with other partners in country to ensure a comprehensive response to TB. The overall responsibility is the development and management of a project-wide M&E system and ensuring the capacity building of the NTP.
[SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:]
1. Provide in-country technical leadership and support for monitoring and evaluation and knowledge management.
2. Ensure the integration of M&E activities into all project components.
3. Collect, report and analyze information on project activities.
4. Ensure timely and complete reporting from in-country executing partners in accordance with approved reporting formats.
5. Monitor and evaluate progress towards annual work plans, expected outputs, including selecting and monitoring progress in meeting indicators.
6. Assist the Project Director in the preparation of work plans/selection of indicators and annual implementation plans with a view towards the project’s M&E requirements.
7. Coordinate the preparation of all quarterly progress reports, annual project report, inception report, ad-hoc technical reports, and success stories for USAID funding in line with the required formats.
8. Collect data for annual M&E plan and use those data to improve project performance.
9. Adapt and implement tools and techniques to improve the quality and use of data for decision making.
10. Compile information on lessons learned and expertise within and outside the project.
11. Assist the Project Director with decision-making on resource allocation based on project priorities and performance.
12. Participate on behalf of the project in appropriate technical meetings and conferences.
13. Provide support to institutional and human capacity building activities at the regional, and local levels for project activities.
14. Provide technical assistance to NTP in improving the M&E systems as well as improving the use of data for decision making.
15. Develop a detailed annual work plan to build technical and managerial capacity of NTP.
16. Based on the capacity building work plan mentioned above conduct monthly seminars, hands-on training, mentoring and coaching for NTP staff.
17. Ensure that skills and knowledge transferred are used in the routine work on NTP.
18. Carry out any such duties as may be assigned by the Project Director.[QUALIFICATIONS:]
1. Masters’ degree in management, M&E, health sciences or public health or equivalent experience.
2. More than 5 years of relevant work experience, with preferable experience in TB and Ethiopia.
3. Excellent planning skills.
4. Demonstrated decision making ability operating in a management culture built on consensus and results. Ability to work as part of a team and as an individual.
5. Experience with Monitoring and Evaluation in USG supported projects in particular.
6. Demonstrated intermediate skills in IT as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, experienced with project planning applications.
7. Knowledge of and experience in training and capacity building.
8. Excellent oral and writing skills in English.
9. Willingness to travel frequently within Ethiopia required.To apply for this position, please submit a resume to https://jobs-msh.icims.com/jobs/3770/job. For more information about MSH, please visit our web site at www.msh.org.
Management Sciences for Health is an equal opportunity employer offering employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship, physical or mental handicap, or status as a disabled or Vietnam Era veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces.
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