2 Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist Job Opportunities – Ministry of Health

Organisation: Ministry of
Health
Project Name:  Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria (GFATM)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Assistant
Commissioner Health Services, Quality Assurance/Program Manager AIDs Control
Program (ACP)
About US:
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) is an
International Partnership that provides grants to lower income countries with
high HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis disease burden. The Fund also supports
health service delivery through grants that are dedicated to health and
community systems strengthening. These resources are additional to and not a
replacement for financing to the health sector from recipient Governments.
Recipient Countries are required to demonstrate transparency, traceability,
attribution and efficient accountability of the resources.
Job Summary: The Monitoring
& Evaluation Specialist is mainly responsible for providing day-to-day
M&E technical assistance to the department in implementation and monitoring
the quality of the grant, Health Sector Development Plan and the department’s
activities. In accordance with the guidance from the sector M&E
requirements, the M&E Specialist will play a pivotal role in ensuring that
the M&E and QA activities are well documented and reported in a
results-based manner. The M&E Specialist will work closely with other
program M&E units, the Regional Performance Monitoring Teams (RPMTs), and
District Health Officers to ensure M&E requirements are fulfilled and the
M&E Frameworks are reported on time with quality checks. 
The jobholder will support the Department to coordinate the
Supervision, Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Technical Working group (SMER
TWG) to improve its effectiveness. The M&E Specialist will also provide
support for the capacity building of staff and partners in relation to sector
M&E, and facilitate knowledge building and knowledge sharing. He or she
will work in close consultation with Pharmacy Division, Resource Centre and
Global Fund Coordination Unit (FCU) collaborating and coordinating with all
other technical staffs at the Ministry of Health, partnership/ Technical
Working Groups, regional and district/Sub District level.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:  
Provide the department with technical and strategic oversight for
sector performance monitoring:
  • Undertake M&E the Ministry of Health
    work plan/procurement plan implementation.
  • Tasked with the preparation of quarterly
    and annual programmatic progress updates on programs based on Global Fund
    requirements.
  • Ensure development and updating of
    databases with pertinent program data and reports, evaluations, etc.
Provide technical assistance to report on progress both qualitatively
and quantitatively according to the health sector annual work plans and log
frame focusing on the achievement of the following results:
  • Ensure timely preparation of the
    departmental M&E annual work plans in line with health sector planning
    processes in collaboration with Program and Project M&E Specialists.
    Ensure that activities are clearly defined, including indicative
    activities, tasks and sub-tasks as well as deliverables for each activity
    to enable effective and efficient monitoring.
  • Continuous monitoring, review of
    programs and make field visits together to conduct qualitative and
    quantitative checks to obtain feedback.
  • Collaborate with QAD, Ministry of Health
    RC and program M&E units in the data entry, analysis and preparation
    of progress reports at national level and recommend corrective action, if
    any, to streamline the process.
  • Timely submission of required reports by
    other program M&E units at the Ministry.
Support and work with other program M&E specialists in
collaboration with other partners such as Academia, WHO, Uganda National Health
Research Organization (UNHRO) to conduct M&E related studies or surveys
including;
  • Systems Strengthening Review (MESSR)
  • Health facility assessments
  • Operational research
Ensure oversight and periodic evaluation of programs and interventions
focusing on the achievement of the following results:
  • Baselines
  • Mid-term evaluations
  • End-term evaluations
Support efforts to strengthen the national HMIS and M&E system and
ensure coordinated and government owned M&E under the national, sector and
program M&E plan:
  • Actively participate in development and
    dissemination of sector M&E Plans.
  • Participate in develop of the sector
    operational research agenda.
  • Support supervision and guidance of the
    RPMTs.
  • Training and other capacity development
    initiatives to strengthen program and district capacity in results-based
    management and M&E.
  • Establish and maintain regular dialogue
    with key national partners involved in HMIS, M&E including surveys and
    health facility assessments.
  • Provides guidance to program counterparts
    and other stakeholders on M&E of national and sector policies and
    strategies.
Ensures knowledge management and capacity development on results- based
management:
  • Actively facilitate strategic information
    sharing across departments, sub national levels and sectors.
  • Support the identification and
    documentation of links, synergies, lessons learnt and best practices that
    can be useful in the institutional learning process and increasing the
    results of projects.
  • Perform other duties assigned by the
    supervisor.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate for the Global Fund
    Health Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist job opportunity must hold a
    Master’s Degree or equivalent of Public health. 
  • Possession of a post graduate qualification
    in M&E is a MUST.
  • A minimum of five years of professional
    experience in M&E at national level in the development field.
  • Computer literacy skills i.e. proficiency
    in the use of statistical package (knowledge of MS Excel/Access, EPI Info
    and data analysis packages).
  • Demonstrate a deep understanding of the
    dynamics of the functioning of the decentralized health service delivery
    system; the effects of day to day decisions on the functionality of the
    health systems at all levels, as well as use of system approaches in
    “causality and attribution” of performance situations.
  • Previous experience in results-based
    programme management and complex level M&E frameworks.
  • Prior experience in supporting capacity
    development or utilization of national HMIS systems, including surveys.
  • A good mastery of the 12 components of a
    functioning M&E System.
  • A good mastery of managing for results,
    mentoring and coaching.
Personal Competences:
  • Managing Relationships: Working
    in teams, Communicating information and ideas, Conflict and
    self-management.
  • Working with people:
    Empowerment/Developing people/Performance management.
  • Design and management of evaluation
    processes.
  • Survey design and implementation.
  • Broad understanding of gender
    considerations.
  • Logic modelling/logical framework
    analysis.
  • Real-time, utilization-focused, joint,
    summative and formative evaluation.
  • Quantitative and qualitative data
    collection and analysis.
  • Participatory approaches.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their
applications addressed to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, P.O. Box
7272, Plot 6, Lourdel Road, Wandegeya, Kampala and hand delivered to the open
Registry Room No. A103. Ministry of Health Headquarters between 8.00 am – 5.00
pm working days).  The complete
applicants should include the following;
  • Detailed curriculum vitae,
  • Photocopies of Professional registration
    certificates and valid practicing licences where applicable.
  • Copy of National Identity Card.
NB:
  • All applications should bear the title of
    the post being applied for.
  • Applicants should include their telephone
    and email contacts on their application forms.
  • Applicants subsequently shortlisted for
    oral interviews shall be required to present Originals of their Academic
    Transcripts and Certificates and National Identity Cards at the time of
    sitting the Oral Interviews.
  • Applicants who will not have heard from
    the Ministry within a period of one month after completion of the
    recruitment and selection exercise should consider themselves unsuccessful.
Deadline: Friday, 28th
April 2017
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