Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor

Project M&E systems

• Coordinate and work with other project staff (Technical advisors and officers) to design, implement and manage a robust project M&E system.

• Participate in the development and review process of the project’s Activity Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan (AMELP).

• Conduct frequent and routine data verification and quality assessment exercises as per project requirements.

• Participate in PEPFAR reporting to ensure timely submission of PEPFAR specific project data.

• Ensure project specific reporting platforms are updated i.e. Project database, HIBRID, PIRS, DIS, KP tracker.

• On a regular basis, prepare and ensure timely submission of project performance monitoring plans, including developing and defining program indicators and sources of data, as well as contributing to annual work plans, quarterly and annual reports and other project documents.

• Track project monitoring indicators for all (or specified) project health component activities and periodically provide data to the project’s Senior Management Team.

• Document progress on outcome level indicators attributable to project interventions at appropriate geographical levels including community level indicators.

• Conduct routine and frequent data analyses, including designing of various innovative data presentation and visualization tools (including maps), and share results with supervisors and the project technical team.

• Working with the Database manager in development and management of project databases.

• Participate in the planning for dissemination and lessons learned and present results of program achievements and outputs in written reports and at conferences and meetings.

• Provide technical and coordination support to M&E officers to effectively and routinely support the cluster teams.

Government HMIS strengthening

• Support the Cluster M&E Officers to provide technical and coordination support to district, facility and community teams to effectively and routinely collect, analyze, and report service delivery and program data.

• Support to all district stakeholders during the collection and management of the data.

• Work with District Biostatisticians to prioritize and plan jointly interventions to strengthen HMIS systems in the supported Districts.

• Using Quality improvement methods, support HIAs and health workers to initiate quality improvement projects to improve data quality and enhance data use.

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Statistics, Public Health, Demography, Population Studies, M&E or related field.

• Extensive experience in monitoring & evaluation, including data analysis and data use for decision making with USAID projects is required; PEPFAR is most preferred.

• Appropriate software skills necessary to conduct, analysis of project data.

• Strong written and oral communication skills for high-level audiences.

• Excellent coordination, and information management skills.

• Experience analyzing big datasets using excel, STATA and Power BI.

• Experience using GIS software.

• Excellent coordination, and information management skills.

• The ability to work well under minimum pressure.

• Ability and willingness to travel frequently within Kigezi region and work under field conditions.