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Director, Strategic Information

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  • Closing Date: Closed

Director, Strategic Information

Posted Date 5 days ago(3/9/2023 9:08 AM)
Job ID
2023-5025
Location
Global
Category
Global
Employment Status
Contingent Upon Award

Overview

Position open only  to current Jhpiego Employees

This position is contingent upon an award and annual funding from CDC.

 

Jhpiego seeks a Director of Strategic Information (SI) for a global project that supports the implementation of activities targeted at increasing the capacity of public health emergency partners to rapidly respond and support populations affected by humanitarian emergencies and conflict settings. Its purpose is to improve the ability to detect and respond to threats early and develop long-term, sustainable programs to rebuild resilience during and after an emergency. The project will operate over an anticipated five-year period. The SI Director will supervise and manage the project’s M&E team across different countries and oversee the collection, management, analysis, and use of project data, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into project implementations to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes. The SI Director will also be responsible for designing and conducting assessments, operations research and evaluations to address project needs.

This position is contingent upon award and annual funding from CDC.

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 country-based 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 CDC 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 with 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 CDC projects national institutions, and key stakeholders, leading initiatives to learn from project data and adapt intervention strategies as appropriate
  • 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 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
  • Support the project to provide MOH technical assistance to strengthen the country’s HMIS for the optimal use of routine HMIS data
  • Ensure project compliance with CDC monitoring, evaluation, research and open data policies
  • 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

Required Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in public health, demography, statistics, social sciences or related field or equivalent experience
  • 10 years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating multi-year, multi-country international health sector development projects, including 2 years in senior management roles
  • Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methodologies, health management information systems, data visualization and reporting
  • Experience developing and implementing implementation science, surveillance and research agendas
  • 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 PEPFAR/CDC programming
  • Understanding humanitarian coordination and approach of accountability toward affected populations
  • In-depth experience with PEPFAR MER guidelines and indicators
  • Familiarity with the health management information system and other M&E systems in target countries
  • Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with CDC, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector
  • Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using DHIS2 and one or more statistical software packages, e.g., SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Excel.
  • Excellent verbal, written interpersonal and presentation skills in English
  • Ability to travel nationally and internationally as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Proficient in additional languages (French, Portuguese)

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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