8 Team Leader/Monitoring and Evaluation Focal Person Global Fund Vacancies - Ministry of Health ~ Ugandan Jobline Jobs

Organisation: Ministry of

Health

Funding Source: Global Fund

Reports to: Director Health

Services (Planning & Development)

The Government

of the Republic of Uganda under the Ministry of Health has received funding

from the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, to support

among other things recruitment of key staff to assist in improvement of the

Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) grant performance. The goals of the Health

Systems Strengthening grant are to:

·        
Strengthen the Procurement and Supply Management

(PSM) system

·        
Support improvements in the Management Information

Systems and Monitoring and          

·        
Support community involvement in the delivery of

health services

Additionally,

the National TB and Leprosy Program (NTLP) is under the department of the

National Disease Control (NDC) in the Ministry of Health. NTLP’s overall

functions are to establish country wide quality diagnosis and treatment

services for TB and Leprosy and to coordinate the implementation of TB and

Leprosy control activities. Under the National Program is a National TB

Reference Laboratory whose functions are; to provide technical guidance to all

TB diagnostic facilities and standardization of Laboratory TB and Leprosy provide

technical supervision and training of laboratory staff on TB and Leprosy

Diagnosis Techniques, Confirmation of drug resistant TB and provide follow up

culture and drug susceptible tests as a national referral facility. It also

supports coordinated drug resistant TB surveillance and technical support roll

out of new laboratory technologies and support their uptake and utilization. It

also carries out operational research activities.

Job Summary:  The Team Leader/Monitoring and Evaluation Focal

Person will take charge of the team and act in line with the Uganda Global Fund

Health Systems Strengthening interventions. The incumbent will be responsible

for performance management of all the other team members as stipulated.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

·        
Oversight of the entire Regional Performance

Monitoring Team (RPMT) to ensure that it functions as a unit.

·        
Responsible for the management of the RPMT staff,

including handling administrative issues, staff appraisal, work schedules and

resource allocations.

·        
Management and implementation of the M&E Plans

for the Health Sector

·        
Performance and Monitoring Plans (HSSIP), HIV/AIDS,

malaria, Tuberculosis Reproductive Health i.e. reporting, training, work plan

development, quarterly, semi-annual, annual, bi-annual, midterm and end term

reviews for M&E and operationalizing the national disease M&E plans and

there tenant sub component M&E plans;

·        
Coordinate regular tracking of relevant core

HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and HSSP M&E indicators to inform the review of the

national level programs in line with the expectations of the “Three Ones

Principle” and the Global Team recommendations of program alignment

·        
Conduct site visits/support supervision to provide

training and ongoing mentoring to core program staff at district, facility and

community levels within the region.

·        
Manage quarterly M&E plan performance reviews

and feedbacks to stakeholders.

·        
Coordinate regular identification of best practices and

lessons learnt, weaknesses, and Technical support needs in line with the

national M&E requirements

·        
Responsible for coordinating submission of

quarterly, semester and annual program reports to Ministry of Health (FCO) and

disease specific programs to enhance speedy consolidating of the reports.

·        
Serve as a technical representation for MoH/FCO

within the Regional partner Malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB M&E meetings.

·        
The incumbent will also serve as a technical

representative for MoH/FCO at the Regional partner HIV/ AIDS meetings or

similar for a

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Provide direction on M&E policy guidelines and

standard operating procedures.

·        
Perform any other duties as assigned by FCO

Qualifications, Skills and

Experience: 

·        
The applicants should hold an MBChB, Bachelors in

Nursing, Economics or Demography and a Master’s degree in Public Health,

Demography, Epidemiology or the equivalent.

·        
A minimum of five years of postgraduate working

experience with bias in M&E and health planning management is required, two

of which should have been in a management / team leader position (similar staff

numbers and expertise).

·        
Prior experience leading long-term projects, with

time-bound deliverables is important given the requirement for timely delivery

of outputs on the RPMT activities.

·        
Past exposure and experience in a rural health

setting is an added advantage.

·        
Proven facilitation, relationship building,

negotiating and influencing skills especially within a complex public, private,

donor, and implementing partner environments.

·        
Self-starter with competence to assess priorities,

manage a variety of complex activities in a time-sensitive/emergency

environment, and meet competing deadlines and ability to work with minimum

direct supervision

·        
Previous experience in handling, managing and

analyzing multiple datasets, within the health setting is a requirement since

practical knowledge of related issues are what shall need to be addressed by

the RPMT team.

·        
Prior exposure and experience and knowledge of HMIS

structures and operations is a pre-requisite given the fact that all health

facilities at a minimum report via the HMIS.

·        
Working knowledge and experience with other

functional and established systems is an additional advantage.

·   Strong and

demonstrated writing skills are required, considering this is the person

responsible for consolidating technical reports.

·        
Computer literacy skills mandatory  

·        
Demonstrated strong leadership skills and a

supportive management style are required.

All suitably

qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send their applications

addressed to the Permanent Secretary, MOH to the address below;

Plot 6 Lourdel

Road, Room D213, Block D, 2nd Floor.

Deadline: 11th September 2015.

Duty Station: Kampala (Central),

Moroto (Karamoja), Lira (North South), Soroti (North Eastern), Hoima

(Mid-Western), Fort Portal (Western), Arua (West Nile) and Mbarara (South

Western), Uganda