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Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director

Position Reports To: Chief of Party

Position Supervised: MEL Officers, KM Advisor

Location: Mwanza, Tanzania

Overview

Jhpiego seeks a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director to provide technical leadership, oversight and strategic direction for MEL activities for an upcoming five-year U.S. government funded health project aiming to increase the demand for and use of quality integrated RMNCAH services in target regions, particularly by youth and women.

The MEL Director will develop project results frameworks and systems to capture performance results and provide effective, accurate and timely monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all project activities. The MEL Director will supervise and manage MEL activities and oversee the collection, management, analysis and use of project data, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into project implementation to continuously improve intervention quality and outcomes. The MEL Director is responsible for documenting and disseminating project successes, challenges, and lessons learned. The MEL Director will also be responsible for designing and conducting assessments, operations research and evaluations to address project needs. The MEL Director will liaise with consortium partners and the MOHCDGEC to implement monitoring, evaluation and learning activities. The MEL Director will work with health facilities and communities to strengthen the optimal use and reporting of HMIS data. This position is contingent upon award by the donor.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

· Provide MEL leadership and direction to ensure the project achieves goals, objectives and targets

· 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

· Lead project activities providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Health in strengthening the national HMIS at all levels, including community level, as well as optimizing use of routine HMIS data for decision-making and program improvements

· Cultivate strategic relationships and alliances with MEL counterparts in other projects, national and regional institutions, and key stakeholders, leading initiatives to learn from project data and adapt intervention strategies as appropriate

· Ensure project compliance with USAID monitoring, evaluation, research and open data policies

· Represent project in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences and presentations

MEL System Development and Management

· Oversee the development and implementation of the Activity Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan (AMELP) to efficiently track performance and use results of assessments, routine monitoring and evaluations over the life of the project

· Develop and oversee implementation of robust context-appropriate systems for data collection, quality assurance, analysis and reporting on activity outputs/outcomes and program quality **

· Ensure alignment of project systems and approaches with mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar national monitoring and evaluation guidelines, protocols, information and reporting systems

· Ensure relevant data is entered into Jhpiego’s organization-wide performance management system designed to capture, analyze, and disseminate project data

· Lead results reporting to USAID by providing written documentation on MEL activities and results for progress and annual reports, as appropriate

· Ensure protection of participant data and confidentiality during all monitoring, evaluation and research implementation and dissemination processes

· Oversee and conduct targeted assessments, evaluations and operations research ensuring compliance with Tanzanian Government and Johns Hopkins University institutional review board policies

Management

· Supervise and support a team of MEL professionals, ensuring high-quality implementation of all MEL activities **

· Train and mentor project staff and implementing partners in monitoring and evaluation methods, tools, and systems**

Required Qualifications

  • Masters’ degree in public health, demography, statistics, social sciences or related field or equivalent experience
  • Eight (8) years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development projects (approximately $5 -10M per year)
  • At least three (3) years’ work experience in a senior management role in an international donor funded organization.
  • Proven expertise in health management information systems, data quality assessments, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methodologies, implementation research approaches, 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 and private sectors
  • M&E experience in health systems strengthening and reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition services
  • Familiarity with Tanzanian health management information system and other national MER systems
  • Experience and understanding of the USAID guidelines, reporting frameworks and systems
  • Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, R, MS Excel. Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
  • 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

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Our History

Responding to the Changing Needs of Women and Families Worldwide

Since its founding in 1974, Jhpiego has been innovating to save the lives of women and families worldwide. From the first day, Jhpiego has been asking the question: How can we make lifesaving services available and accessible to the people who need them—all over the world?

Dr. Theodore M. King, an early innovator and champion for women’s health, was the moving force behind the founding of Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1970s, King recognized the need to make physicians, nurses and administrators from developing countries aware of reproductive health breakthroughs, such as laparoscopy (a procedure used to inspect internal reproductive organs for infertility or to provide contraception by closing off the fallopian tubes) and modern contraceptives. Originally known as the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics, the organization was funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Under King’s leadership, as a founder, trustee and later president of Jhpiego for 14 years, the organization conducted a steady stream of programs throughout the developing world.

How Did We Get from There to Here?

Early on, Jhpiego established itself as a leader in reproductive health training. Beginning in 1974, Jhpiego held training sessions on family planning/reproductive health for doctors and nurses in the USA In 1979, Jhpiego started its first in-country training programs in Tunisia, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, Thailand and the Philippines. From 1987 through 2004, Jhpiego conducted three global Training in Reproductive Health Projects, funded by USAID. Beginning in 1993, Jhpiego published learning materials on long-acting family planning methods.

Over the years—to respond more effectively to the needs of individual countries—Jhpiego became increasingly field-based and established its first field office in Kenya in 1993. Today, Jhpiego has field offices in more than 30 countries worldwide. Similarly, Jhpiego’s programming areas have expanded to meet changing needs in the field. In addition to family planning and reproductive health, Jhpiego now has expertise in maternal and child health, infection prevention and control, HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases.

Jhpiego’s work has also expanded to address reproductive health policy and guidelines and to support health systems strengthening. For example, in 1996 in Brazil, Jhpiego launched a performance and quality improvement approach, now known as Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-R), which has since been implemented in 30 countries. SBM-R empowers health workers and facilities to improve the performance and quality of their services by providing them with the tools and methods they need to make decisions, solve problems and innovate at the local level.

Innovations in Training Methods and Technologies

In 1986, Jhpiego pioneered a competency-based training (CBT) approach that emphasizes learning by doing. CBT focuses on how the participant performs and promotes the trainer’s ability to encourage learning. Jhpiego also introduced the use of anatomic models for “humanistic training.” To minimize risk to clients, learners first practice on models until they achieve competency. In 1995, a clinical training skills manual—the cornerstone of Jhpiego’s training approach—was published. Using a systematic “training of trainers” approach, Jhpiego has created a global network of qualified physician, nurse and midwife trainers.

As early as 1984, Jhpiego collaborated with the University of the West Indies to deliver reproductive health courses, via satellite, to six islands in the Caribbean. In 1987, Jhpiego sponsored a global meeting on reproductive health education and technology with the World Health Organization (WHO) and introduced computer-assisted instruction to simulate clinical situations in several of its US-based courses. In 1995, ReproLine, an online source for reproductive health information, was launched. Today, Jhpiego continues to explore new learning technologies: mobile phones in Afghanistan, a computer-based learning management system in Ethiopia, computer-based training in Ghana, a distance learning program in Zambia.

Practical Solutions for Low-Resource Settings

Since the 1992 publication of its international reference standard Infection Prevention for Family Planning Service Programs, Jhpiego has been at the forefront in promoting evidence-based practices that can protect health care professionals, staff and clients from potentially life-threatening infections. To this end, Jhpiego has tested and introduced practical, low-cost infection prevention procedures that can be implemented effectively in settings with limited resources.

In developing countries, cervical cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. In 1995, Jhpiego began research with the University of Zimbabwe to find a low-cost alternative to the Pap test that could make cervical cancer prevention a reality in low-resource settings. Based on the results of this research, Jhpiego helped form the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention in 1999 and received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its cervical cancer program. Since that time, Jhpiego has developed and piloted the single visit approach in which women are screened and treated during the same visit.

In 1995, Jhpiego began addressing HIV/AIDS and its integration with family planning services. Six years later, Jhpiego began work in HIV voluntary counseling and testing with a USAID-funded project in Jamaica. In 2002, Jhpiego received its first funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for work in HIV/AIDS and, the following year, developed a global learning package on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV—with CDC, WHO and university partners—to enable global scale-up. Also in 2003, Jhpiego began work on male circumcision for HIV prevention in Zambia. In 2008, Jhpiego developed a global learning package on male circumcision for HIV prevention with WHO and UNAIDS.

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0 USD Tanzania CF 3201 Abc road Contract , 40 hours per week Jhpiego

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director

Position Reports To: Chief of Party

Position Supervised: MEL Officers, KM Advisor

Location: Mwanza, Tanzania

Overview

Jhpiego seeks a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director to provide technical leadership, oversight and strategic direction for MEL activities for an upcoming five-year U.S. government funded health project aiming to increase the demand for and use of quality integrated RMNCAH services in target regions, particularly by youth and women.

The MEL Director will develop project results frameworks and systems to capture performance results and provide effective, accurate and timely monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all project activities. The MEL Director will supervise and manage MEL activities and oversee the collection, management, analysis and use of project data, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into project implementation to continuously improve intervention quality and outcomes. The MEL Director is responsible for documenting and disseminating project successes, challenges, and lessons learned. The MEL Director will also be responsible for designing and conducting assessments, operations research and evaluations to address project needs. The MEL Director will liaise with consortium partners and the MOHCDGEC to implement monitoring, evaluation and learning activities. The MEL Director will work with health facilities and communities to strengthen the optimal use and reporting of HMIS data. This position is contingent upon award by the donor.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

· Provide MEL leadership and direction to ensure the project achieves goals, objectives and targets

· 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

· Lead project activities providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Health in strengthening the national HMIS at all levels, including community level, as well as optimizing use of routine HMIS data for decision-making and program improvements

· Cultivate strategic relationships and alliances with MEL counterparts in other projects, national and regional institutions, and key stakeholders, leading initiatives to learn from project data and adapt intervention strategies as appropriate

· Ensure project compliance with USAID monitoring, evaluation, research and open data policies

· Represent project in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences and presentations

MEL System Development and Management

· Oversee the development and implementation of the Activity Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan (AMELP) to efficiently track performance and use results of assessments, routine monitoring and evaluations over the life of the project

· Develop and oversee implementation of robust context-appropriate systems for data collection, quality assurance, analysis and reporting on activity outputs/outcomes and program quality **

· Ensure alignment of project systems and approaches with mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar national monitoring and evaluation guidelines, protocols, information and reporting systems

· Ensure relevant data is entered into Jhpiego’s organization-wide performance management system designed to capture, analyze, and disseminate project data

· Lead results reporting to USAID by providing written documentation on MEL activities and results for progress and annual reports, as appropriate

· Ensure protection of participant data and confidentiality during all monitoring, evaluation and research implementation and dissemination processes

· Oversee and conduct targeted assessments, evaluations and operations research ensuring compliance with Tanzanian Government and Johns Hopkins University institutional review board policies

Management

· Supervise and support a team of MEL professionals, ensuring high-quality implementation of all MEL activities **

· Train and mentor project staff and implementing partners in monitoring and evaluation methods, tools, and systems**

Required Qualifications

  • Masters’ degree in public health, demography, statistics, social sciences or related field or equivalent experience
  • Eight (8) years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development projects (approximately $5 -10M per year)
  • At least three (3) years’ work experience in a senior management role in an international donor funded organization.
  • Proven expertise in health management information systems, data quality assessments, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methodologies, implementation research approaches, 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 and private sectors
  • M&E experience in health systems strengthening and reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition services
  • Familiarity with Tanzanian health management information system and other national MER systems
  • Experience and understanding of the USAID guidelines, reporting frameworks and systems
  • Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, R, MS Excel. Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
  • 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

2020-12-01

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