Program Summary:
Under the direction of the ICAP Congo Regional team lead and M&E Advisor, the M&E Officer will be responsible for all M&E related activities for supported sites in the region. S/he will provide technical support and capacity building to staff at departmental level, district, and site level on M&E related activities, use innovative M&E tools, and oversee data collection, training, and data management at the supported sites. This will involve working with the site-level staff to increase data quality through improving the completeness and quality of paper-based and electronic data, the quality of the patient records systems and accurate and timely reporting in the national DHIS2 system.
Qualifications / Professional Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information management, socio-medical sciences or a related discipline; additional experience with medical or public health records is preferable.
- A master's degree in public health is an asset.
Experience, skills & minimum required qualifications:
- At least 2 years of experience with health-related data collection tools and databases • Experience in data analysis.
- Experience with DHIS2.
- Knowledge of operations and health systems.
- Knowledge of hardware capabilities and functionality; data security; software, including Word, Excel, Access, and Power Point.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in French; proficient in English.
- Experience in writing reports, training materials, guidelines, and standard operating procedures.
- Strong data analysis skills.
- Experience working with complex programs involving short deadlines and multiple tasks, in coordination with multiple partners to achieve program results.
Experience, skills & preferred qualifications:
- Experience with HIV treatment programs in low resource settings is preferred.
- Experience working with GLOBAL FUNDS supported programs is strongly preferred.
Travel requirements:
- The position will be based in Brazzaville or Pointe Noire, there will be routine travel to ICAP supported sites.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
The M&E Officer will:
- Support the development of the ICAP Congo reporting system and monitoring plan.
- Train and supervise site-level staff on data collection and reporting.
- Lead and manage baseline indicator and/or situation analysis at sites.
- Maintain the established reporting system database and support routine reporting.
- Develop ongoing quality control/assurance procedures to ensure complete and accurate data entry.
- Establish data security guidelines and activities to ensure that all data are stored and maintained in a secure and effective manner.
- Contribute to data cleaning and analysis process.
- Generate routine data summaries for project monitoring.
- Provide general information technology support to supported sites.
- Support ICAP Congo staff to document training and technical assistance activities and help to produce and disseminate technical reports, guides, manuals, and other written materials.
- Provide regular liaison with M&E contacts.
- Perform other duties as assigned.