**Overview
Jhpiego seeks a Senior Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Advisor to provide technical leadership, oversight and strategic direction for monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities for an upcoming US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)-funded HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment project. The four-year project aims to strengthen the capacity of the Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) to achieve epidemic control among target communities.
The Senior MEL Advisor will provide technical leadership to develop project framework, M&E systems and indicators to capture performance results and provide effective, accurate and timely monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all project activities. The Senior MEL Advisor will supervise and manage the MEL team and oversee the collection, management, analysis and use of project data, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into project implementation to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes. The Senior MEL Advisor is responsible for documenting and disseminating project successes, challenges and lessons learned to PEPFAR. The Senior MEL Advisor will also be responsible for designing and conducting assessments, operations research and evaluations to address project needs. The Senior Advisor will liaise with and support consortium partners and the Ministry of Health to implement monitoring and evaluation (and learning) activities.
This position is contingent upon award from PEPFAR. Rwandan nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities:
Oversee the development and implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) to efficiently track, use and disseminate performance indicators and results over the life of the project, including routine service delivery data reporting, baseline and end line assessments, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations
Support project team in the development of donor reports and organization wide reporting requirements using DATIM and internal systems.
Supervise a team of M&E professionals, ensuring high-quality implementation of all monitoring, evaluation and learning activities
Develop and oversee implementation of robust context-appropriate systems for data collection, quality assurance, analysis and reporting on activity outputs/outcomes and program quality
Lead results reporting to PEPFAR by providing written documentation on M&E activities and indicator results for progress and annual reports, as appropriate
Ensure alignment of project systems and approaches with Rwanda national monitoring and evaluation guidelines, protocols, information and reporting systems
Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with monitoring, evaluation and learning counterparts in other PEPFAR projects national institutions, and key stakeholders, leading initiatives to learn from project data and adapt intervention strategies as appropriate
Lead efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and recordkeeping
Use data to contribute towards strategic decision-making and project planning with project leadership
Support project leadership to 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
Oversee and/or conduct targeted assessments and evaluations ensuring compliance with Ministry of Health and Johns Hopkins University institutional review board policies
Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures including routine data quality audits and that these are routinely carried out during the project lifecycle
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
Ensure project compliance with DOD M&E and open data policies
Promote and support the dissemination of project information among the project team
Work with project and financial staff to prepare and track progress of project and activity budgets
Train and mentor project staff and RDF in monitoring and evaluation methods, tools, and systems
Ensure protection of participant data and confidentiality during all monitoring and evaluation implementation and dissemination processes
Required Qualifications:
Data quality improvement
This vacancy is archived.