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• Expanded availability of health services
  by private service providers;
• Increased affordability of private health
  services and products; and
• Improved quality of private health sector
  facilities and services.

• Offer technical support and guidance to
  grantees in the areas of documentation, data management, data utilization
  and reporting; putting emphasis on national M and E systems including
  HMIS/DHIS2 and OVCMIS.
• Manage a team of M&E Officer(s),
  delineating their responsibilities in order to support programmatic
  activities of PHS program and ensure these are monitored and evaluated in
  a timely, efficient and effective manner.
• Coach, train, and mentor the M&E
  Officers with the aim of strengthening their technical capacity,
  exchanging knowledge within the M&E team and provide professional
  development guidance in conjunction with the M&E Team Lead and M&E
  Director.
• Work in liaison with the M and E Director,
  to develop the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) plan and to
  contribute to the development of a vision and framework for the M&E
  unit.
• Support the documentation of best
  practices and facilitate the use of such data to drive program design and
  decision making. Produce information to share lessons learned and for
  advocacy purposes.
• Significantly contribute to managing the program
  activity database to facilitate timely production of strategic information
  to aid the Program’s decision making and programming.
• Send timely feedback to partners and
  programme teams on projects’ performance based on monitoring data
  findings.
• Develop data collection tools/ monitoring
  tools for collecting data on a set of agreed upon indicators as indicated
  in the AMEL Plan, and regularly update the Program MEL indicator table and
  monitor project activities, outputs and progress towards anticipated results.
• Work with the M&E Team Lead to develop
  M and E work plans with clear performance and impact indicators and
  targets, and budgets.
• Actively participate in and provide
  support to project design activities including development of project
  theories of change and strategic frameworks (Results Frameworks, Log
  Frames)
• Work closely with program team leads to
  review grantee workplans, performance frameworks and budgets.
• Organise program activity performance
  reviews and provide feedback on program progress to USAID/Uganda Private
  .Health Support Program staff and grantees.
• Take lead in guiding the program and
  grantees/partners in improving collaboration, learning and adapting
  mechanisms within their organizations and with other stakeholders.
• Conduct regular validation of data through
  Routine Data Quality Assessments from supported health facilities/
  organizations that is prepared/submitted or entered into the DHIS2 and
  OVCMIS by the district focal persons.
• Ensure integration of continuous quality
  improvement during support supervision and technical assistance visits.
• Conduct client satisfaction surveys and
  represent PHS in special M&E events.

• The ideal candidate for the USAID PHS
  Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist career opportunity should possess a
  Bachelor’s degree preferably in B. Stat, BSc (Econ), BSc (Stat), B.
  Quantitative Economics, B. Population Studies or any other relevant
  degree. Masters in Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Health, Epidemiology,
  Statistics or any other relevant health degree.
• At least six years working experience in
  monitoring and evaluation with substantive knowledge of current HIV/AIDS
  issues and familiarity with PEPFAR reporting requirements including an
  in-depth understanding of HMIS, DHIS2, HIBRID, DATIM etc.
• Excellent organizational and management
  skills and the ability to work as a team and respond to deadlines.
• Proven ability to train and build capacity
  of program staff and grantees in data management.
• Knowledge and advanced training in Research
  and M&E including use of relevant software applications statistical or
  otherwise.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of the
  M&E framework including use of the national response to HIV/AIDS.
• Strong people skills; considerable
  experience of collaborative work; positive attitude to working with non
  M&E specialists and appreciation of the contribution others can make.

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