Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director, April 2024

Overview

Jhpiego seeks a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director to provide technical leadership, oversight and strategic direction for MEL activities for an USAID-funded maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) project in Mozambique. The project will operate over a five-year period.

The MEL Director will have in-depth familiarity with project indicators and definitions and will provide oversight and guidance on all measurement aspects of the project. S/he will provide technical leadership to develop project framework, plans and indicators to capture performance results and provide effective, accurate and timely monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all project activities. S/he will be responsible for designing and implementing systems to ensure appropriate tracking and assessment of all activities. The MEL Director will supervise, manage and mentor the MEL team to design and implement MEL activities, and work closely with the Deputy Chief of Party to ensure that lessons learned are integrated into project implementation to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes. The MEL Director is responsible for documentation and dissemination of project successes and challenges to USAID. The MEL Director will also oversee and/or design project learning activities, including evaluations and operations research. S/he will liaise with consortium partners and the Ministry of Health to implement MEL activities and support national and local health data systems.

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

Responsibilities

• Lead the MEL team and ensure a results oriented and knowledge sharing culture, working in collaboration with the headquarters-based MER unit
• Design and lead in-country MEL strategy, annual plan and frameworks
• Oversee the development and implementation of routine monitoring and evaluation systems and the design and implementation of learning activities
• Ensure quality, consistency and adherence to Jhpiego standards and best practices for M&E across the program, including data quality and use
• Provide senior-level leadership and direction on MEL to ensure the Project achieves its goals and corresponding objectives and targets
• Oversee the development and implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) to capture project performance and results, including routine service delivery data reporting, baseline and endline assessments, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations
• Develop and oversee data flow pattern for the Project that will ensure timely data collection and reporting
• Oversee development of data management system for warehousing project level data
• Lead results reporting to USAID by providing written documentation on MEL activities and indicator results for progress and annual reports, as appropriate
• Ensure high-quality implementation of MEL activities consistent with Mozambique national monitoring and evaluation guidelines, protocols, information and reporting systems
• Lead with project management staff the planning and budgeting of M&E activities and routinely track activities against budgets and timelines
• Lead efforts to develop a culture of data use within the project and with project-supported stakeholders and facilities, including use of data visualization, to contribute towards strategic decision-making and project planning with project leadership. This includes regular data review meetings with relevant stakeholders.
• Oversee and/or conduct targeted learning activities, evaluations and operations research, including design, data collection, management and analysis; ensure compliance with Jhpiego research standards
• Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures including routine data quality audits that are routinely carried out during the project lifecycle
• Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with other USAID projects and 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
• Supervise and mentor a team of MEL professionals
• Coordinate all M&E capacity-building activities with project staff, implementing partners and facility staff
• 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
• Ensure protection of participant data and confidentiality during IRB process and implementation of study

Required Qualifications

• Advanced degree in monitoring and evaluation, public health, epidemiology, statistics, social sciences or related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum 7+ years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development projects
• Minimum 7+ years direct work experience in Mozambique or another East or Southern African nation as a senior expert in M&E in the health sector
• The ability to influence project policy and operational decisions, demonstrated by previous experience in leading the development and implementation of instruments, tools, processes and/or protocols used in the measurement of project outcomes
• Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts in both the public and NGO sectors
• M&E experience in MNCH, including in-depth familiarity with MNCH indicators and definitions
• Demonstrated experience in developing and managing data collection systems and quality assurance systems, and production of high quality reports
• Experience using research and monitoring information for decision making and program adaptations
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, operations research, health management information systems, reporting, data quality
• Familiarity with Mozambique’s health management information system and other national M&E systems
• Experience and understanding of USAID’s framework and reporting system

• 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, MS Access
• 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
• Excellent skills in facilitation, team building, and coordination
• Excellent verbal, written interpersonal and presentation skills in English and Portuguese
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in regional and national projects and technical staff
• Proficiency in word processing, Microsoft Office and statistical software
• Ability to travel nationally and internationally

How to apply:

https://jobs-jhpiego.icims.com/jobs/3292/monitoring%2c-evaluation-and-le…

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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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Overview

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

Responsibilities

• Lead the MEL team and ensure a results oriented and knowledge sharing culture, working in collaboration with the headquarters-based MER unit • Design and lead in-country MEL strategy, annual plan and frameworks • Oversee the development and implementation of routine monitoring and evaluation systems and the design and implementation of learning activities • Ensure quality, consistency and adherence to Jhpiego standards and best practices for M&E across the program, including data quality and use • Provide senior-level leadership and direction on MEL to ensure the Project achieves its goals and corresponding objectives and targets • Oversee the development and implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) to capture project performance and results, including routine service delivery data reporting, baseline and endline assessments, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations • Develop and oversee data flow pattern for the Project that will ensure timely data collection and reporting • Oversee development of data management system for warehousing project level data • Lead results reporting to USAID by providing written documentation on MEL activities and indicator results for progress and annual reports, as appropriate • Ensure high-quality implementation of MEL activities consistent with Mozambique national monitoring and evaluation guidelines, protocols, information and reporting systems • Lead with project management staff the planning and budgeting of M&E activities and routinely track activities against budgets and timelines • Lead efforts to develop a culture of data use within the project and with project-supported stakeholders and facilities, including use of data visualization, to contribute towards strategic decision-making and project planning with project leadership. This includes regular data review meetings with relevant stakeholders. • Oversee and/or conduct targeted learning activities, evaluations and operations research, including design, data collection, management and analysis; ensure compliance with Jhpiego research standards • Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures including routine data quality audits that are routinely carried out during the project lifecycle • Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with other USAID projects and 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 • Supervise and mentor a team of MEL professionals • Coordinate all M&E capacity-building activities with project staff, implementing partners and facility staff • 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 • Ensure protection of participant data and confidentiality during IRB process and implementation of study

Required Qualifications

• Advanced degree in monitoring and evaluation, public health, epidemiology, statistics, social sciences or related field or equivalent experience • Minimum 7+ years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development projects • Minimum 7+ years direct work experience in Mozambique or another East or Southern African nation as a senior expert in M&E in the health sector • The ability to influence project policy and operational decisions, demonstrated by previous experience in leading the development and implementation of instruments, tools, processes and/or protocols used in the measurement of project outcomes • Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts in both the public and NGO sectors • M&E experience in MNCH, including in-depth familiarity with MNCH indicators and definitions • Demonstrated experience in developing and managing data collection systems and quality assurance systems, and production of high quality reports • Experience using research and monitoring information for decision making and program adaptations • Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, operations research, health management information systems, reporting, data quality • Familiarity with Mozambique’s health management information system and other national M&E systems • Experience and understanding of USAID’s framework and reporting system

• 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, MS Access • 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 • Excellent skills in facilitation, team building, and coordination • Excellent verbal, written interpersonal and presentation skills in English and Portuguese • Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in regional and national projects and technical staff • Proficiency in word processing, Microsoft Office and statistical software • Ability to travel nationally and internationally

How to apply:

https://jobs-jhpiego.icims.com/jobs/3292/monitoring%2c-evaluation-and-le...

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