Job
Title: Director Monitoring,
Evaluation and Learning
Title: Director Monitoring,
Evaluation and Learning
Organisation: University
Research Co., LLC (URC)
Research Co., LLC (URC)
Project Name: USAID
Regional Health Integration to Enhance Health Services in East Central Uganda
Project (USAID/Uganda RHITES-EC) Project
Regional Health Integration to Enhance Health Services in East Central Uganda
Project (USAID/Uganda RHITES-EC) Project
Duty Station: Jinja,
Uganda
Uganda
About US:
University Research Co., LLC
(URC) is a global company dedicated to improving the quality of health care,
social services, and health education worldwide. With a non-profit affiliate,
the Center for Human Services (CHS), URC manages projects in over 45 countries,
including the United States.
(URC) is a global company dedicated to improving the quality of health care,
social services, and health education worldwide. With a non-profit affiliate,
the Center for Human Services (CHS), URC manages projects in over 45 countries,
including the United States.
About USAID RHITES-EC Project:
University Research Co., LLC
(URC) is implementing the USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Health
Services in East Central Uganda Project (USAID/Uganda RHITES-EC) whose aim is
to support the implementation of a comprehensive integrated investment in
regional health, nutritional assistance and HIV/AIDS programs. The
five-year project targets 11 districts in East Central Uganda with an estimated
total population of 4.1 million through a district-based integrated package of
quality health, nutrition, HIV / AIDS and child development services.
(URC) is implementing the USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Health
Services in East Central Uganda Project (USAID/Uganda RHITES-EC) whose aim is
to support the implementation of a comprehensive integrated investment in
regional health, nutritional assistance and HIV/AIDS programs. The
five-year project targets 11 districts in East Central Uganda with an estimated
total population of 4.1 million through a district-based integrated package of
quality health, nutrition, HIV / AIDS and child development services.
Job Summary: The
Director Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning is a member of the URC senior
management team that manages the USAID RHITES-EC Activity and reports to the
Chief of Party. S/he is responsible for supporting the design and
implementation of the project’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning agenda, and
provides strategic and technical leadership to the project in Monitoring,
Evaluation and Learning, including reporting of results, data utilization for
program decision-making and knowledge management
Director Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning is a member of the URC senior
management team that manages the USAID RHITES-EC Activity and reports to the
Chief of Party. S/he is responsible for supporting the design and
implementation of the project’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning agenda, and
provides strategic and technical leadership to the project in Monitoring,
Evaluation and Learning, including reporting of results, data utilization for
program decision-making and knowledge management
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coordinate
and work with other project staff to manage a robust M&E system,
identify and monitor key program activities in order to document results
and what interventions contributed to the results, and ensure the
integration of those results into Uganda’s health system’s
decision-management processes. - Lead
in ongoing review and implementation of the Activity’s Monitoring,
Evaluation and Learning Plan (AMELP) to ensure responsiveness to evolving
project, Donor and host government needs. - Provide
support to M&E and HMIS teams at various levels to conduct frequent
and routine data verification and quality assessment exercises as per the
Activity AMELP and internal needs. - On
a regular basis, prepare and ensure timely submission of project
performance monitoring plans, including developing and defining program
indicators and sources of data, as well as contributing to annual work
plans, quarterly and annual reports and other project documents. - Track
project monitoring indicators for all (or specified) project health
component activities and periodically provide data to the project’s Senior
Management Team. - Document
progress on various levels of indicators attributable to project
interventions - Direct
and ensure coordination and linking of data reporting with technical
strategy discussions - Provide
leadership for knowledge management and documentation for project with
emphasis on dissemination and lessons learned and present results of
program achievements and outputs in written reports and at conferences and
meetings. - Develop
and manage a robust and dynamic Learning and Operational Research agenda
On a very frequent and regular basis, advise project COP and senior
management team on trends for various performance indicators, as well
schedules for project deliverables as per prescribed timelines - Track
district-level and facility-level performance through focal technical
staff, Cluster teams, and M&E team - Provide
technical and managerial leadership in the development and design of all
project evaluation and research efforts, and ensure that they are linked
to project objectives and deliverables and are properly resourced - Manage
various project databases to capture relevant data on key indicators - Participate
in writing regular, timely progress reports of project activities and
results for USAID and other stakeholders, including responding to all
USAID requests for data and reporting in a timely manner - Engage
with other program and technical staff in developing and implementing
annual project work plans - Provide
strategic, technical and coordination support to the project team to
effectively support strengthening of the HMIS at district, facility and
community levels
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The
applicant for the USAID RHITES-EC Director Monitoring, Evaluation, and
Learning career opportunity must hold a Master’s Degree in either
Statistics, Biostatistics, Public Health, Epidemiology, or another
relevant field. - A
minimum of ten (10) years of relevant professional experience in leading
M&E processes, quality improvement and Knowledge Management. - Previous
experience in implementation of Health Systems Strengthening, HIV/AIDS,
malaria, family planning, maternal, newborn and child health, or nutrition
is desirable. - Demonstrated
expertise in performance management and linking data to improvement - Experience
with managing complex data sets and databases, including conducting and
supervising data analyses, report writing, and design of creative data
presentation and visualization tools - Experience
in working with USAID and/or PEPFAR funded programs - Ability
to travel extensively with the East-Central region of Uganda - Demonstrated
team player and experience with staff supervision - Ability
to hold self and others accountable for work-related commitments and
deliverables, and consistently and all the time follow through on such
commitments and focus on those activities that have the greatest impact on
meeting measurable high quality results
NB:
Only candidates who are eligible to work in the Uganda for an indefinite period
without a need for sponsorship will be considered for this position.
Only candidates who are eligible to work in the Uganda for an indefinite period
without a need for sponsorship will be considered for this position.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and
interested candidates who wish to join the USAID RHITES EC Project should send
their cover letters, certificates of good conduct curriculum vitae, copies of
academic credentials and contact information for three professional references
addressed to:
interested candidates who wish to join the USAID RHITES EC Project should send
their cover letters, certificates of good conduct curriculum vitae, copies of
academic credentials and contact information for three professional references
addressed to:
Human Resource Coordinator,
University Research Co., LLC –
Centre for Human Services
Centre for Human Services
Plot 1, East Victoria Close,
Mpumudde Division,
Mpumudde Division,
Jinja. Uganda
E-mail to: [email protected]
Deadline: Friday, 19th January 2018 by 12:00 pm
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