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• Actively participate in defining strategic information needs in
  alignment to stakeholder information needs
• Contribute to the development of a performance monitoring and
  management plan for the programmes
• Integrate the performance monitoring and management plan into
  departmental specific work plans with clearly defined key performance
  indicators
• Conduct regular review and update performance frameworks based on
  stakeholder information needs communicated through the activity and
  programme level reports
• Engage implementing teams in conducting periodic programme
  performance reviews and implementation of recommended improvements
• Conduct and support technical teams in implementing programme
  activity monitoring and utilising feedback to improve programming

• Support technical teams in developing periodic work plans for
  programme activities including work plans for implementation of
  sub-contracts & M&E activities
• Engage Project Managers, Technical Leads & sub-contracted
  partners in the review of project plans and budgets and follow-up to
  ensure recommended improvements are implemented
• Provide technical support to Managers and Technical Leads in the
  development and monitoring of departmental budgets including M&E
  activities implemented in the supported districts
• Implement and monitor the M&E activity specific budget
  expenditure to ensure acceptable budget burn rate

• Conduct the review, pre-test & adoption of data collection &
  reporting tools based on the information needs in liaison with technical
  teams
• Engage implementing teams at supported sites in developing data
  collection and reporting tools for use by project staff, sub-contractors
  in alignment with data architecture
• Conduct periodic training & mentorship of project &
  departmental personnel in use of data collection & reporting tools in
  alignment to the plan for data collection tools review and update of database
  screens in liaison with the Capacity Building Team
• Conduct periodic review & update data collection & reporting
  tools in response to  Information
  architecture and the plan for tools review and update of database screens
• Conduct periodic data quality assessments/audits with data
  management teams, districts personnel to ensure availability of high
  quality data for decision making and planning

• Roll out the strategic information sharing & reporting plan that
  will guide information sharing & an acceptable quality of reports.
• Compile high quality and timely progress reports for internal &
  external stakeholders; donors, MoH & AIDS Control Programme among
  others
• Disseminate progress reports to internal & external
  stakeholders; donors, MoH & MoGL&SD among others
• Compile and appropriately integrate stakeholder feedback into
  Programme implementation for continuous improvement across programme
  thematic areas

• Contribute to the development of study designs/guidelines for
  conducting project evaluations and periodically sensitize selected
  technical teams on the use of the guidelines
• Train & orient evaluation assistants/staff in data collection
  techniques, ethics & tools, including quality assurance of the
  evaluation process
• Contribute to regular programme trends analysis and routinely
  participate in selected internal evaluation alongside the Research Manager
• Support the planning and conduct of external programme evaluations
  as assigned from time to time
• Participate in the compilation and dissemination of evaluation
  reports to stakeholders for ownership & action as necessary
• Engage implementing teams and Program Impact team to routinely
  document success stories so as to build a culture for documentation,
  research, learning & continuous quality improvement of the Programmes

• Provide M&E technical support during design and review of
  new/ongoing programmes
• Support pre-award assessments for prospective grants as a task
  specific assignment
• Cascade the project specific M&E plan to department/service
  level and support managers in defining key performance indicators in
  alignment to the project specific M&E system
• Conduct monitoring and evaluation of the project design,
  implementation and expected project results to assess for relevance, cost
  effectiveness and sustainability
• Equip managers and technical teams with basic M&E skills to
  enable effective output level activity monitoring
• Provide feedback to project implementers and other stakeholders on
  project progress to enable meaningful involvement and ownership

• Communicate to the regional Data Management Team a clear and
  exciting vision for the work and the role of the regional Data Management
  Team
• Ensure that each member of the team fully understands the outcomes
  that are expected of them and that they are aware of best practices in
  Data Management; ensuring that they behave in a way which will maintain
  good relationships with donors, partners and other staff
• In liaison with M&E Manager and Data Manager ensure that work is
  planned and organised in a way which will meet the needs of the
  organisations in the most cost effective manner possible
• Support team members to enable them to give their best e.g. by
  encouraging, providing resources, tools and equipment

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree qualification in
  Quantitative Economics, Statistics, Population Studies, or other related
  field like Social Sciences, Development studies with postgraduate
  qualification in M&E. Successful candidate must have.
• A minimum of three years’ experience in Monitoring & Evaluation
  and preferably in the health sector.
• Proficiency in project implementation reporting
• Experience in Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) and OVC
  MIS
• Experience: M&E, Data management and Research
• Knowledge: M&E, Research, Data Management & Quality
  Assurance
• Advanced computer skills in STATA, SPSS, MS Excel and MS Access

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