Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor USAID RHITES-EC Project Jobs – University Research Co., LLC (URC)
Job Title: Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor
Organisation: University Research Co., LLC (URC)
Project Name: USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Health Services in East Central Uganda Project (USAID/Uganda RHITES-EC) Project
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
Reports to: Director Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
About US:
University Research Co., LLC (URC) is a global company dedicated to improving the quality of health care, social services, and health education worldwide. With a non-profit affiliate, the Center for Human Services (CHS), URC manages projects in over 45 countries, including the United States.
About USAID RHITES-EC Project:
University Research Co., LLC (URC) is implementing the USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Health Services in East Central Uganda Project (USAID/Uganda RHITES-EC) whose aim is to support the implementation of a comprehensive integrated investment in regional health, nutritional assistance and HIV/AIDS programs. The five-year project targets 11 districts in East Central Uganda with an estimated total population of 4.1 million through a district-based integrated package of quality health, nutrition, HIV / AIDS and child development services.
Job Summary: The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor is responsible for supporting the design and implementation of the projects monitoring-, evaluation and learning agenda. He/she will ensure functionality of systems to measure and document program process, outputs and impact results by routinely and systematically collecting and analyzing program data and presenting program results to project staff, district and central MOH teams and donors. He/she will supervise Monitoring and Evaluation Advisors/Specialists.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and work with other project staff to manage a robust project M&E system;
- Participate in the continuous review of the project’s Activity Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan (AMELP);
- Take lead and participate in generating weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual project reports and ensure timely submission of the reports to the Donor;
- Ensure that Donor and project specific reporting platforms are updated on an ongoing basis, i.e. Project database, HIBRID, PRS, Trainer, FTF etc;
- Working closely with the Database Manager participate in the management of project databases;
- Work with project, MOH and district teams, including District Biostatisticians, to jointly design, implement and monitor Interventions to strengthen district HMIS systems.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicants for the USAID RHITES-EC Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor career placement must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics or Social Sciences;
- Master’s Degree in Statistics, Public Health, Epidemiology or other relevant field;
- A minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience in leading M&E processes, including routine health and survey data management for complex health systems and/or service delivery programs;
- Experience with conducting research and evaluation in Health Systems Strengthening, HlV/AIDS, malaria, family planning, maternal, newborn and child health, or nutrition is desirable;
- Demonstrated expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research methods;
- Experience with managing conventional and databases, including data analysis and manipulation, and designing of creative data visualization tools;
- Proven proficiency in statistical software such as STATA, Epi-Info or similar.
- Specifically, for analysis of public health data and large datasets.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills;
- Demonstrated interpersonal and teamwork skills with ability to lead multi-disciplinary collaboratively as well as independently.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates who wish to join the USAID RHITES EC Project should send their cover letters, certificates of good conduct curriculum vitae, copies of academic credentials and contact information for three professional references addressed to:
Human Resource Coordinator,
University Research Co., LLC – Centre for Human Services
Plot 1 Bridge Lane, Mpumudde Division,
P.O. Box 5053, Jinja, Uganda
E-mail to: HR-RHITES-EC@urc-chs.com
Deadline: 8th February 2019 by 2:00 pm
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