Job Description
Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer, SCOPE
Work Location: World Relief Haiti, with frequent field travel (40%)
Reports to: Country Program Manager, SCOPE
Date Developed: October 25, 2019
Must be available to begin work immediately
Implemented by World Relief in Haiti, Kenya, Malawi and South Sudan, the USAID funded SCOPE project seeks to use and improve existing private and public health systems, working with health service providers to co-train community health actors and strengthen policies to improve access to services. SCOPE increases demand for services by training mothers and caretakers on preventative health measures and health seeking behavior change. SCOPE provides this training through some of the most trusted voices in the community: religious leaders and neighbors and will improve advocacy efforts at various levels of the Ministry of Health through strong local partners -- churches, religious networks, and Christian Health Associations. These local partners are essential for SCOPE’s collaboration, learning, and long-term sustainability.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The SCOPE M&E Officer is responsible for the implementation of in country monitoring and evaluation activities. She/he utilizes the Collaboration, Learning and Adaptation Approach to continually assess project progress and facilitate adaptive learning and data-driven decision making, participates in the development and implementation of M&E strategy and tools. She/he ensures quality and timeliness of monitoring and evaluation data in alignment with MEL plan, and liaises with external stakeholders to ensure effective engagement around M&E. Trains and supports staff in the M&E function.
Fonctions
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Oversight of M&E Function
? Oversees all aspects of in country M&E function with input from SCOPE Project M&E Technical Advisor
? Facilitates ongoing reflection meetings to promote “Pause & Reflect” and learn from monitoring and evaluation data
Presents data to internal and external stakeholders to share lessons learned
Participate in quarterly meetings with global project team to assess and learn from global trends
M&E strategy and tools design and implementation
Participate in MEL planning and design process
Contribute to Community of Practice with global project team
Develop and test Open Data Kit tools
Securely manage project database and records
Oversight of quality and timeliness
Prepare quarterly reports that meet donor requirements
Perform regular data quality assessments
Submit accurate data in organizational metrics portal
Disaggregate data by age, sex and disability
Relationships with local stakeholders
Provide support to performance evaluation process in collaboration with USAID Mission, global leadership team, and the external evaluation team
Work with global leadership team and external consultant to ensure effective evaluation
Facilitate joint monitoring with MOH and/or USAID Mission
Solicit and incorporate feedback from stakeholders on project progress according to monitoring and evaluation data
Prepare and present findings at learning summits and conferences
Support capacity building for project staff
Train and supervise enumerators and staff in data collection
Train key staff in M&E plan, system, and data collection methodology
Work with project staff to promote data visualization and data-driven decisions at the community level
Collaborate with project manager and staff to ensure data informs project management and decision-making.
Qualifications Requises
EXPERIENCE AND REQUIREMENTS:
Education and Experience:
Bachelors or Master’s degree in statistics, demographics, public policy, international development, public health, or a related field. Master’s degree or Bachelor plus an advanced certificate in M&E or statistics preferred.
Excellent written and oral English skills required.
Proven success in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages.
5 years of professional experience in a senior M&E position responsible for implementing M&E activities of an international development project. Experience with USAID or another publicly funded project preferred.
Experience in strategic planning and performance measurement, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and/performance monitoring plans and tools.
Knowledge and experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis
Experience in planning and managing surveys.
Experience developing and refining data collection tools, including using Open Data Kit for mobile data collection
Experience with data quality assessments and oversight.
Experience managing and providing ongoing training to field staff on M&E.
Experience liaising with external stakeholders
Skills in the local language.
Personal Skills:
Commitment to World Relief’s values.
Willingness to travel locally 40% of the time (including in fragile environments) and internationally annually.
Conditions de travail
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands 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.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations
The ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-15 pounds.
Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application information.
The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.
All of the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions subject to reasonable accommodation. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Individuals may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation. This position description is not all-inclusive and is always under review.
