Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Officer at Jhpiego

Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University. For 40 years in East and Southern Africa, Jhpiego has empowered front-line health workers by designing and implementing effective, low-cost, hands-on solutions that strengthen the delivery of health care services, following the household-to-hospital continuum of care. Jhpiego partners with organizations from the community to the national levels, building sustainable, local capacity through advocacy, policy development, human resources for health and quality and performance improvement approaches.  For further information about Jhpiego, please visit our website at www.jhpiego.org.

Jhpiego invites applications for the following positions for the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) VMMC Project.

All successful candidates selected for these positions will be subject to a pre-employment background check. Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

MONITORING, EVALUATION AND RESEARCH OFFICER

Overview: To take the lead in the provincial implementation of the performance monitoring plan (PMP) to capture project performance and results including routine service delivery data reporting, baseline, midline and end line and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations. Design and lead efforts and link facility-based VMMC quality improvement measurements, routine service delivery data, and processes with health outcomes and impact.

Responsibilities:

• Provide provincial technical leadership and direction to project M&E strategies, frameworks, plans and indicators to capture project performance and results.
• Coordinate the successful implementation of the project’s provincial M&E activities.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the provincial team and project counterparts at all levels to participate in and lead, as needed, monitoring and evaluation of project activities and data use for programmatic decision-making.
• Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with other PEPFAR partners.
• Enhance systems for routine data collection and M&E feedback to Technical Advisors, CDC, PMO and other stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with other project team members to ensure that necessary project planning, development, resource availability and management activities function smoothly and efficiently.
• Support MCDMCH/ PMO structures to strengthen routine VMMC program monitoring.
• Provide technical assistance and guidance to DCMO and facility information officers and other VMMC technical staff to ensure program performance monitoring: collection, compilation, analysis, reporting and use of data for ongoing improvements in program implementation

• Develop data analysis products including routine performance charts for presentation at performance review meetings with project team, PMO, DCMC and facility management
• Responsible for entering relevant data into J-RISE, an organization wide performance management system designed to capture analyze, and disseminates program data.
• Promote and support the dissemination of provincial VMMC program –related data through progress reports.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field
• Post graduate training will be an added advantage
• Not less than five years work experience in monitoring and evaluating health and/or development programs.
• Strong background in research methods and experience in the design, conduct and analysis of research studies (quantitative and qualitative).
• Familiar with the Zambian Health Management Information System and other MOH M&E systems.
• Experience and understanding of the PEPFAR framework and reporting system.
• Technical knowledge and experience in the range of applied research and monitoring and evaluation techniques, including the relationship of information systems to program implementation.
• Excellent writing and communications skills, including demonstrated technical writing skills for publication
• Experience with statistical analysis and word processing, database and graphical software.
• Ability to process and analyze data from computer-based health informatics applications including Microsoft ACCESS and one or more of the following statistical software packages: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata
• Demonstrated expertise working in the M&E capacity with international donors, senior government officials and policymakers.
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.

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