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Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer ME/SD/15/07/20

Reporting to the SI Manager, s/he will be the provincial responsible person
for providing technical expertise on all strategic information
responsibilities related to the program, including all monitoring, evaluation,
analytics, and reporting of performance and results. S/he will lead efforts to
strengthen monitoring and evaluation, and performance reporting within the
districts in each specific province where the activities take place, which
includes overseeing support to community organizations to monitor, document
and analyze the performance of their HIV/OVC services and activities and
ensure data quality. S/he will liaise with relevant district technical staff
and counterparts responsible for district and site level strategic
information, and monitoring and evaluation, and support coordination with
national management information system. The MEL officer will work closely with
the Provincial Managers, District Coordinators, the community and facility
Linkage manager, the economic strengthening coordinator and officers,
technical team, and CIDRZ data associates, as well as the Project HOPE team.
The MEL officer will participate on the development of the project M&E tools
including the project database.

Main duties

> Provides technical support to the district team under SDVCA project, support local government and partners on M&E activities including data collection, analysis, quality assurance, and reporting.
Supervises the data associates technically to ensure their capacities are
built and quality data is recorded, collected, verified, analyzed and timely
reported.

> Participates in the development of SI tools including the project data management database in collaboration with other SI and technical team.
> Ensures the district team understand the monitoring and evaluation tools, reporting requirements and all PEPFAR required Performance Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning indicators and custom indicators.
> Together with the project technical team, develops success stories, conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis and strategically use M&E data within the project, for program improvement.
> Prepares regular reports for the SI manager, the Provincial Project Coordinator and liaise with the relevant team in the province and districts to ensure the program data is used for improving the quality of service delivery.
> Develops M&E tools and contribute to the database development as necessary to document, analyze and report program data
> Provides M&E and quality improvement trainings to the district level SI and program team to ensure program and data team synergy in the field.
> Carries out quarterly data quality assurance processes; conduct regular and standard DQAs and prepare sites for USAID SIMS visits.
> Serves as the district focal point person for MEL activities and liaise closely with the technical team.
> Prepares weekly, monthly, quarterly, & annual reports for submission to USAID, MCDSS, MOH, MoGE and other stakeholders including ad hoc USAID and MCDSS requests.
> Participates in regional and district-level M&E related meetings and workshops representing CIDRZ
> Participates in regular review meetings and prepares reports for the review meeting.
> Participates in development of abstracts, posters, and oral presentations for international conferences

Qualifications

> Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Monitoring & Evaluation, Demography, Biostatistics, Statistics, Analytics, or a related field is required.
> Minimum 5 years of MEL experience in health or HIV projects in a technical capacity; preferably including few years with USAID-funded projects.
> Demonstrated applied skills in MEL methods and innovations, data analysis, and use of data for systems strengthening projects.
> Sufficient experience in designing, establishing, and managing monitoring and evaluation systems, ensuring data quality, and managing data collection and reporting (preferably funded by PEPFAR).
> Demonstrated leadership working with other technical experts in MEL in the NGO community
> Demonstrated hands-on practical experience setting up and managing MEL systems for health programs and familiarity to PEPFAR MER 2.4 guide
> Experience developing data collection and registration tools and providing trainings and capacity building on M&E to data associates and community volunteers
> Excellent report writing, analytical and communication skills, including oral presentation skills.
> Demonstrated written, presentation, communication, and organizational skills in English.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

> Experience in the MEL of HIV projects, PEPFAR experience desirable
> Experience in the routine MEL of OVC programs highly desirable
> Demonstrated ability to perform robust data entry, verification, and extraction from internal and external information systems
> Demonstrated ability to perform site level data analytics; data visualizations; ability to perform basic data quality analyses and make recommendations based on findings.
> Demonstrated ability to portray data sets in easy to understand formats including graphs, tables, trend lines and visualizations.
> Demonstrated working knowledge of Zambia’s health and social service information systems and monitoring and evaluation processes as it relates to data collection for performance-based reporting.
> Ability to convey M & E results to non-technical stakeholders and generate interest in the use of data/results for programmatic improvements.

Suitably qualified candidates are invited to apply; however only shortlisted
candidates will be contacted. Please send application letter and detailed CV
quoting Reference Number and day-time telephone number to ;

CIDRZ Human Resources Director P. O. Box 34681, LUSAKA or email
jobs@cidrz.org



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