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Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist - OVC/AGYW Activity in South Sudan

Juba

  • Organization: Jhpiego
  • Location: Juba
  • Grade: Mid level - Mid level
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Women's Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming
    • Monitoring and Evaluation
    • Children's rights (health and protection)
  • Closing Date: Closed

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist - OVC/AGYW Activity in South Sudan

Posted Date 5 days ago(3/9/2023 8:41 AM)
Job ID
2023-5023
Location
SS-Juba
Category
International Positions
Employment Status
Contingent Upon Award

Overview

Jhpiego seeks a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to provide technical leadership, oversight and strategic direction for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities for an upcoming USAID-funded HIV prevention focused project in South Sudan.  The five-year project aims to prevent new HIV infections and optimize outcomes for those living with HIV by fostering resilience among high-risk children, youth, and their caregivers in high-burden counties in South Sudan. Interventions will be delivered at three levels to achieve all outcomes: (i) strengthened capacity of most vulnerable households to provide basic needs for their children and other family members; (ii) improved retention in care, treatment adherence, and viral load suppression for children and adolescents living with HIV; (iii) reduced incidence of new HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women; (iv) decreased experiences of sexual, physical, and emotional violence among children, adolescent girls, and young women.

The M&E Specialist will provide technical leadership to develop the 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 Specialist 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 Specialist is responsible for documenting and disseminating project successes, challenges and lessons learned to USAID. The M&E Specialist will also be responsible for designing and conducting assessments, operations research and evaluations to address project needs. The M&E Specialist will liaise with and support consortium partners and the Ministry of Health to implement monitoring and evaluation (and learning) activities.

This position is contingent upon award from USAID. South Sudanese nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

  • 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 South Sudan 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 (IRB) 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 health management information system (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 IRB focal point in-country including maintaining current certification from 1) CITI human subjects ethics course and 2) CITI Good Clinical Practices (GCP) course

Required Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in public health, demography, statistics, social sciences or related field or equivalent experience
  • Minimum of 3-4 years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development projects (approximately $5 -10M per year)
  • At least 3-4  years of experience in collecting, analyzing, and using data for decision making for donor-funded projects
  • Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methodologies, implementation research approaches, HMIS, 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 HIV under PEPFAR/USG
  • Familiarity with South Sudan’s HMIS and other national M&E systems
  • Experience and understanding of USAID’s framework and reporting system
  • Strong computer literacy and technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using multiple sources of data to identify data trends and provide recommendations on project implementation using DHIS2 and one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Excel
  • Demonstrated experience leading and building the capacity of M&E officers, field-based staff, to meet project needs and deliverables.
  • Experience leading and building the capacity of remote M&E Officers, field-based staff, to meet project needs and deliverables.
  • Experience hiring and supervising personnel and ensuring they acquire the necessary training and skills to meet evolving project needs
  • Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector
  • Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, organizational, team-building, and representational skills
  • Expertise in research to practice—identifying and adapting best practices to specific project contexts
  • Excellent skills in facilitation, team building, and coordination
  • Excellent verbal, written interpersonal and presentation skills in English Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in regional and national projects and technical staff
  • Proficiency in word processing, Microsoft Office
  • Ability to travel nationally and internationally

Preferred Qualifications

  • Preferred minimum 8 to 9 years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development projects (approximately $5 -10M per year)
  • Preferred at least 5 years of experience in collecting, analyzing, and using data for decision making for donor-funded projects
  • Familiarity with South Sudan’s SI guidelines a plus.
  • Experience with other data collection and management tools (Kobo, ODK Collect, Redcap, CommCare, Go.Data), data visualization software (Power BI, Tableau, ArcGIS, QGIS), or programming languages (R, Python) a plus.
  • Knowledge of local languages preferred

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.

Please apply at www.jhpiego.org/careers

Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, and references.

For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

 

Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans.

 

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