Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor – University Research Co Jobs 2022
Organization: University Research Co., LLC (URC)
Job Location: Based in Gulu, Uganda; With travel to districts as needed
Reports to: MEL Director
University Research Co., LLC (URC) Profile:
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.
Established in 1965, URC offers a range of technical assistance to strengthen health and social systems and service quality by empowering communities and health workers to identify and scale up locally appropriate solutions to critical problems. Internationally, we expand access to and improve the quality of services addressing maternal, newborn, and child health; infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria; reproductive health and family planning; food and nutrition; and vulnerable children and families. In the US, we focus on improving communication related to issues like substance abuse, with a particular focus on reaching underserved populations.
URC’s mission is to provide innovative, evidence-based solutions to health and social challenges worldwide. Please join us in carrying out our mission (http://www.urc-chs.com/).
Division & Project Overview:
The Quality and Performance Institute (QPI) is a division of URC that has implemented quality improvement and operations research programs in health care since 1981 and continues to be at the cutting edge of health care improvement work in countries around the world.
With the RHITES-N Acholi Project (Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Northern Uganda – Acholi), USAID will continue its support of the Government of Uganda’s (GOU) efforts to improve access to and use of health services in the country’s post-conflict northern region. RHITES-N Acholi Project activities will build on USAID investments and national advances to increase access to and use of high-quality integrated services that accelerate the ability and capacity to respond to the specific health needs of residents in the Acholi sub-region, leveraging the URC-ASSIST project successes.
Job Summary:
The M&E Advisor is responsible for effectively planning, implementing and managing Monitoring and evaluation activities of the different public health interventions that are implemented by the RHITES N Acholi Activity. Will support daily implementation of monitoring work including work planning, tracking progress towards objectives, development of data collection instruments an, on-site research and data collection, programmatic reports compilation, developing/conducting presentations of findings, and liaising with stakeholders on technical matters.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Strategic Information, Monitoring and Evaluation Responsibilities
Working in collaboration with the MEL Director, the M&E Advisor will;
- Take leadership in the management of community data.
- Support the implementation of the project performance-monitoring plan-ensuring adherence to the donor’s M&E guidelines throughout the project.
- Support the design and implementation of project baselines, evaluations and other researches in partnership with technical staff.
- Perform data analyses; generate reports of findings, and visualizations to contribute to reporting requirements and project communications products.
- Support in preparing monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual programmatic performance reports and their submission in the stipulated deadlines
- Ensure all M&E relevant data and reports are entered into the various donors’ reporting systems
- Oversee data quality work and related M&E strengthening within USAID RHITES-N, Acholi Project including routine data quality assessments (RDQAs) and validations
- Design, share, manage and troubleshoot databases used by the different technical officers
- Oversee the development and dissemination of tools for data collection, storage, and analysis.
Capacity Building
- Build the capacity of the project staff, program partners and other stakeholders to analyze data and advocate for quality data use for evidence-based programming with special focus on community data.
- Provide technical support to technical officers and other stakeholders at all program intervention levels in the use of health data and information
Supervision
- Support the MEL Director in managing the project M&E team including delegation of work, supervision and leadership.
Collaboration and Communication Responsibilities:
- Regularly communicate progress against targets to project staff.
- Where required represent the project in technical, policy and planning forums with the funders, MOH and other key stakeholders.
- Participate actively in technical working groups around M&E
Other duties
- Provide as-requested data and reports in a timely manner.
- Support the coordination and an execution of events in the department such as, organization project learning by developing, collecting and dissemination relevant information on monitoring, evaluation and research
- Support the LPHS-TASO Acholi M&E Team to implement robust data improvement and quality assurance activities
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required, Master’s degree and minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience
- Expertise in qualitative and quantitative research and evaluation methodologies
- Knowledge of current M&E, impact evaluation assessment trends, methodologies, and resources
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Experience with data collection methods and management of information systems
- Knowledge of web site applications, Microsoft Office, as well as data analysis software (e.g. STATA, SPSS, EPI INFO, etc.)
- Familiarity with the various government led reporting and data collection system
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadline
Desired Experience & Qualifications
- Familiarity working with and on USAID projects
How To Apply for University Research Co Jobs 2022
All interested and suitably qualified candidates should submit their applications through the link below.
Deadline: 31st January 2022
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