Uganda: Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Officer (2 positions) - Kitgum & Moroto

TITLE: Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Officer (2 positions)

LOCATION: Kitgum (One post) and Moroto (One post)

REPORTS TO: Health Managers

Scope of work

The Senior M&E Officer will ensure that quality data is obtained from the program facilities, VHTs as well as program staff when performing activities aimed at increased quality and coverage of child and maternal healthcare in the districts. S/he is to supervise the data collection, data cleaning and input, ensuring a robust data base with analysis and data interpretation on which to base program decisions.

Specific Responsibilities

Technical

• Work with the program team to develop a detailed M&E plan for the program based on the project log frame to track progress against agreed indicators.


• Track the M&E plan and frequently provide the district and program team with trend analysis of tracked indicators while identifying outliers.


• Conduct field visits to the health facilities to mentor and coach facility staff on data collection, reporting and data cleaning to inform program and HMIS reports.


• Support the district/health facilities and program staff to frequently use data for program improvement.


• Support the health facilities to engage in continuous quality improvement processes.


• Participate in quality of care monitoring together with the DHT and IRC project staff while ensuring availability of data at the facilities for assessing program quality.


• Provide accurate information that informs the program review meetings.


• Ensure the availability of data collection tools at the health facilities and for community programming.


• Maintain an accurate and up-to-date database for the health program.


• Maintain a good record keeping system and undertake continuous monitoring and regular evaluation of the project activities.

Liaison

• Liaise with the district M&E team while ensuring that accurate and timely data on the program is fed into the district HMIS and program reports.


• Attend relevant meetings to represent IRC’s program activities in the district.

Communication/Reporting

• Provide regular feedback to the program Manager on project implementation.


• Provide the program Manager, program staff and districts with monthly reports on indicator trends.


• Assist in preparation of donor reports.


• Facilitate the health facility/VHT reporting requirements for program reporting and to feed into the HMIS and program reports.

Requirements / qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, demography, M&E or related field. A master degree or a bachelors plus an advanced certificate in M&E, statistics or economics preferred.

Experience and skills

• Four (4) years working experience in Primary Health Care settings with proven success in designing, implementing and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to close out stages.


• Experience in data quality assessments and oversight


• Experience working with District Health teams and building the district capacity in data collection, reporting and analysis.


• Experience in data analysis, trend analysis and interpretations.


• Experience in continuous quality improvement processes.


• Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies.


• Experience in the use of the MOH data collection tools.


• Experience working with district health teams, health facility staff and community based groups such as VHTs


• Previous work with an NGO in similar programs.


• Good experience in monitoring and evaluation of programs.


• Good report writing skills.


• Ability to enhance good interpersonal relationship.


• Good communication skills.


• A good command of both written and spoken English.


• Good knowledge and application of Microsoft word, Excel and Power Point.