Job Description
POSTION DESCRIPTION
DATE:
POSITION TYPE: Full Time, Local Hire
DURATION: 1 year with extension
LOCATION: Freetown, Sierra Leone (note that Project HOPE will not be covering relocation expenses)
POSITION TITLE: Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
DIVISION: Global Health
REPORTS TO: Country Representative, Sierra Leone
Vacancy Link: https://projecthope.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/2/home/requisition/1451?c=projecthope
Application deadline: July 31, 2024
Project HOPE is an international NGO with employees and volunteers who work around the globe, responding to the world’s most pressing global health challenges. Throughout our 65-year legacy, Project HOPE has treated millions of patients, provided more than $3 billion worth of medicines to local health care organizations around the world helped build hundreds of health programs from the ground up, and responded to humanitarian crises worldwide.
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POSITION SUMMARY:
Project HOPE seeks a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer to support the GF-funded KP Program. The SMEO will provide leadership and technical guidance to the KP program team on all monitoring, evaluation, and learning-related (MEL) issues. Reporting to the CR and working closely with technical leads, the SMEO will oversee the design, implementation, and quality assurance of all MEL aspects of the program. This includes leading and supervising the project learning agenda; ensuring the functioning and quality of any data management systems; ensuring data quality in reporting; planning and implementing data dissemination events and activities and data use. In addition, the SMEO will ensure any required technical assistance and capacity development of program staff and health system staff on continuous quality improvement (CQI) and data quality assessment (DQA), with the aim to improve quality of programmatic data. They will also provide strategic guidance for developing a robust learning agenda aimed at continuous learning, collaboration, and adaptation throughout the project’s duration. Acting as the main contact point, they will establish and manage an evaluation and monitoring system and plan aligned with the GF and Project HOPE reporting and learning requirements.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Technical Responsibilities
- Develop and implement the framework for project results measurement, accountability, learning and development effectiveness that will measure and report the KP Program’s success, including articulation of “theories of change” and program impact pathways, which affect what the KP Program does and how it does it.
- Provide leadership, technical oversight, support, and direction on performance monitoring and research activities at the central and regional/district levels.
- Ensure the KP Program’s MEL system adheres to the GF and Project HOPE guidelines and meets the needs of the program for learning, analysis, and reporting.
- Ensure that lessons learned and best practices are captured, synthesized, reported, and disseminated, internally and externally.
- Head the KP Program’s efforts at developing and implementing an effective knowledge management system to ensure lessons and best practices are incorporated into ongoing interventions and innovative approaches.
- Lead the development, selection, and application of M&E processes and tools, including DHIS2.
- Ensure that relevant project staff have the required skills for using and managing DHIS2 for reporting and monitoring.
- Provide strategic guidance on and oversee MEL activities at the central, regional, and district levels, including indicator selection, baseline assessments, and targets setting.
- Supervise, train, and mentor the KP Program’s MEL team, including M&E Officers at the regional/district level.
- Support partners and other stakeholders in developing a CQI system that will allow for improved program performance.
- Ensure the KP Program’s MEL team follows the integrated CQI processes according to standards.
- Respond to requests from partners, ministries, and other stakeholders for information and technical assistance on M&E and research activities.
- Oversee quarterly reports and presentations, annual reports and presentations, and final project reports and dissemination to the Government of Sierra Leone, The GF, and Project HOPE HQ.
- Lead and advise on information management processes by reviewing data collection efforts, overall data reliability, consistency, and quality.
- Establish and coordinate procedures for client verification to ensure the accuracy and authenticity of beneficiary data
- Design and coordinate client satisfaction surveys and feedback mechanisms to gather insights from beneficiaries
- Request support from Project HOPE HQ/Technical Unit (TU) MEL team, as required.
Managerial Responsibilities
- Lead regular weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance review meetings.
- Oversee training and mentoring support to partners, Technical Working Groups (TWGs), and MEL and project staff to ensure the implementation of robust M&E systems under the technical supervision of the Technical lead.
- Provide managerial support and mentorship to the MEL team.
- Coordinate and communicate with the Project HOPE TU MEL team, as needed, including ensuring routine Feedback, Focus, Future (FFF) meetings with Project HOPE TU.
- Represent the organization at relevant fora.
Fulfill other duties and responsibilities as may be reasonably assigned by the Technical lead.
MINIMUM REQUIRED SKILLS, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- A minimum of a Master’s degree in public health, health management, epidemiology, social work, sociology, psychology, health informatics, monitoring & evaluation, demography, biostatistics, statistics, analytics, or a related field is required.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience working on MEL for donor-funded health projects, preferably those involving health systems strengthening, capacity strengthening and/or HIV/AIDS, including 8+ years of leadership, strong business acumen and/or line management experience.
- Strong familiarity with The GF health and capacity strengthening programming.
- Knowledgeable on reporting procedures, best practices, guidelines, and tools for MEL of health projects.
- Knowledge and experience with DHIS2, including dashboard construction and data entry and DQA functions.
- Knowledgeable about CQI processes and requirements.
- Strong writing and organizational skills for monitoring and reporting on program and study results.
- Strong communication abilities, including communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience using quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods, mixed methods, and MEL practices to answer program learning and evaluation questions and to inform adaptive management.
- Proven experience working with and building the capacity of Ministries of Health (MoHs) and understanding of MoH systems at national and sub-national levels.
- Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to work collaboratively with IPs, donors and host country partners and stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of and experience with the GF program management, policies, regulations, and procedures.
- Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO) is preferred.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication and presentation skills in English.
- Proficiency in at least one of Sierra Leone’s local languages.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical demands:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be mobile in an office environment and able to use standard office equipment.
- Expect to travel 30-50% or more of the time (local travel within Sierra Leone).
Work environment:
- Typical office environment with exposure to a minimal noise level.
- Project HOPE employees work in the global health field and may be required to travel or work in countries where working conditions are classified as “hardship”.
All positions will be based in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.
Due to the substantial number of inquiries we receive, only candidates who have met the required experience and qualifications for this position will be considered. No phone calls please.
However, since we are active around the world in the field of public health, we may wish to retain your CV in our database for other/future opportunities, unless you direct us otherwise.