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Kampala, Uganda
Full-time
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Jhpiego is a global health nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of women and families by providing transformative health care solutions and advancing innovative approaches to health systems strengthening. With a mission to prevent the needless deaths of women and children by improving health care delivery systems and ensuring access to quality care, Jhpiego has earned widespread recognition for its leadership in maternal, newborn, and child health, as well as its work in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention. Known for its strong reputation in public health, the organization is valued for its evidence-based, sustainable, and culturally relevant solutions.
Jhpiego fosters a collaborative and inclusive work culture, emphasizing respect, diversity, and professional development, offering employees a supportive environment with opportunities for growth, a flexible work-life balance, and competitive benefits. Established in 1973 as part of Johns Hopkins University, Jhpiego has grown from a small technical assistance provider to a global health leader, operating in over 40 countries and delivering impactful programs in maternal health, family planning, and disease prevention.
The organization’s innovative approach blends research, technology, and local knowledge to create scalable, adaptable solutions that improve health outcomes in some of the world’s most challenging settings. Jhpiego's size and reach have made it a key partner to governments, international organizations, and local communities, making a difference through sustainable health interventions. Guided by its core values of excellence, innovation, and equity, Jhpiego continues to make a lasting impact on global health. Through its corporate social responsibility initiatives, Jhpiego invests in capacity building, health workforce development, and improving health access for underserved populations. For more information, visit www.jhpiego.org.
Monitoring and Evaluation, and Learning Advisor job at Jhpiego
Jhpiego
Jhpiego seeks a, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Research Director/Advisor to provide technical leadership, oversight and strategic direction for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities for an upcoming USAID-funded Urban Health Activity in Uganda. The project aims to strengthen urban health systems, to improve equitable health outcomes among all urbanites by working with municipalities and city corporations on strengthening urban health systems to provide quality, equitable public health, optimize available resources and strengthen private sector capacity as part of sustainability efforts. The Uganda Urban Health Activity will address poor quality of care, congested public health facilities, uncoordinated referral system, weak community structures, limited private sector capacity, and gaps in enabling environment results in poor health outcomes in Kampala, Mukono and Wakiso. The project will operate over a five-years period.
The M&E Advisor will provide technical leadership to develop project framework, M&E systems and indicators to capture performance results and provide effective, accurate and timely monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all project activities. The M&E Advisor will supervise and manage the M&E team and oversee the collection, management, analysis and use of project data, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into project implementation to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes. The M&E Advisor is responsible for documenting and disseminating project successes, challenges and lessons learned to USAID. The M&E Advisor will also be responsible for designing and conducting assessments, operations research and evaluations to address project needs. The M&E Advisor will liaise with and support consortium partners and the Ministry of Health to implement monitoring and evaluation (and learning) activities.
Provide leadership and direction on M&E to ensure the project achieves its goals and corresponding objectives and targets
Oversee the development and implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) to efficiently track, use and disseminate performance indicators and results over the life of the project, including routine service delivery data reporting, baseline and end line assessments, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations
Supervise a team of M&E professionals, ensuring high-quality implementation of all monitoring, evaluation and learning activities
Develop and oversee implementation of robust context-appropriate systems for data collection, quality assurance, analysis and reporting on activity outputs/outcomes and program quality
Lead results reporting to USAID by providing written documentation on M&E activities and indicator results for progress and annual reports, as appropriate
Ensure alignment of project systems and approaches t with [insert country] national monitoring and evaluation guidelines, protocols, information and reporting systems
Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with monitoring, evaluation and learning counterparts in other USAID projects national institutions, and key stakeholders, leading initiatives to learn from project data and adapt intervention strategies as appropriate
Lead efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and recordkeeping
Use data to contribute towards strategic decision-making and project planning with project leadership
Support project leadership to champion holistic approaches to collaboration, learning and adapting (CLA), including design and implementation of an action-oriented project research and learning agenda, routine analysis of available health sector data sources, and application of best practices in knowledge management
Oversee and/or conduct targeted assessment, evaluations and operations research, ensuring compliance with Ministry of Health and Johns Hopkins University institutional review board policies
Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures including routine data quality audits and that these are routinely carried out during the project lifecycle
Represent M&E activities in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations
Ensure relevant data is entered into Jhpiego’s organization-wide performance management system designed to capture, analyze, and disseminate project data
Support the project to provide Ministry of Health technical assistance to strengthen the country’s HMIS for the optimal use of routine HMIS data
Ensure project compliance with USAID monitoring, evaluation, research and open data policies
Promote and support the dissemination of project information among the project team
Work with project and financial staff to prepare and track progress of project and activity budgets
Train and mentor project staff and implementing partners in monitoring and evaluation methods, tools, and systems
Ensure protection of participant data and confidentiality during all monitoring, evaluation and research implementation and dissemination processes
Support the designated Internal Review Board (IRB) focal point in-country including maintaining current certification from 1) CITI human subjects ethics course and 2) CITI Good Clinical Practices (GCP) course
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Master’s degree in public health, demography, statistics, social sciences or related field or equivalent experience
Minimum of five + years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development projects (approximately $5 -10M per year) that have implemented successful activities in urban health in public and private facilities, local government institutions systems
Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methodologies, implementation research approaches, health management information systems, data visualization and reporting
Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts in both the public, NGO and private sectors
M&E experience in Urban Health
Familiarity with Uganda health management information system and other national M&E systems
Experience and understanding of the USAID and Urban Health framework and reporting system
Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using DHIS2 and one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Exce
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