Recruiting Organisation: Malaria Consortium
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda or London, UK
Reports to: Technical Director
About Malaria Consortium:
Malaria Consortium is one of the world's leading non-profit organisations dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organisations to improve the health of the population and the capacity of national health systems. It ensures that good evidence supports delivery of effective services and evidence-based decision-making by providing technical support for monitoring and evaluating programmes and activities. In the recent years, the organisation has undergone significant expansion, thus requiring robust and effective systems to meet the new challenges.
Job Summary: The Monitoring Specialist serves a critical role in providing technical guidance on set up, maintenance and utilisation of monitoring systems across the organisation's projects and contributes to M&E capacity building and system strengthening within the organisation and with partners. The Monitoring Specialist also ensures quality monitoring of projects and effective use of routine monitoring data to inform programme decision-making and disseminate lessons learned to stakeholders and external audiences. The Monitoring Specialist serves as a member of the global M&E technical support team and engages actively in the organisation's M&E cluster.
Responsibilities:
1. Organisational Development:
Steer the harmonizing of project monitoring tools and methods across the organisation
Significantly contribute to the strengthening of the organisation wide project monitoring system for in country and donor reporting
Take part actively in the design and set up of organisational wide cross project results monitoring system
Take lead the development of an organisational wide routine project data aggregation system that can be remotely accessed for viewing project progress.
Mentor and train project M&E staff (and others as needed), building their capacities in M&E and in data demand &use
Actively engage in M&E strengthening in partner organisations, as required
Actively participate in Malaria Consortium's M&E cluster and contribute to organisational M&E strengthening initiatives
2. Reporting and Quality Assurance:
Offer technical guidance and assistance to project teams to ensure programme data is effectively managed and accurate for Malaria Consortium’s programmes.
Work closely with project managers to improve the project & programme performance
For existing projects, review their monitoring and evaluation projects to ensure that their plan for project monitoring are sound and provide guidance where necessary.
Guide routine monitoring data quality control in projects through the application of appropriate data quality assurance measures to validate data and monitor the quality,(validity, reliability, completeness and timeliness of collected routine monitoring data)
Vacancy: Monitoring Specialist
Recruiting Organisation: Malaria Consortium
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda or London, UK
Reports to: Technical Director
About Malaria Consortium:
Malaria Consortium is one of the world's leading non-profit organisations dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organisations to improve the health of the population and the capacity of national health systems. It ensures that good evidence supports delivery of effective services and evidence-based decision-making by providing technical support for monitoring and evaluating programmes and activities. In the recent years, the organisation has undergone significant expansion, thus requiring robust and effective systems to meet the new challenges.
Job Summary: The Monitoring Specialist serves a critical role in providing technical guidance on set up, maintenance and utilisation of monitoring systems across the organisation's projects and contributes to M&E capacity building and system strengthening within the organisation and with partners. The Monitoring Specialist also ensures quality monitoring of projects and effective use of routine monitoring data to inform programme decision-making and disseminate lessons learned to stakeholders and external audiences. The Monitoring Specialist serves as a member of the global M&E technical support team and engages actively in the organisation's M&E cluster.
Responsibilities:
1. Organisational Development:
Steer the harmonizing of project monitoring tools and methods across the organisation
Significantly contribute to the strengthening of the organisation wide project monitoring system for in country and donor reporting
Take part actively in the design and set up of organisational wide cross project results monitoring system
Take lead the development of an organisational wide routine project data aggregation system that can be remotely accessed for viewing project progress.
Mentor and train project M&E staff (and others as needed), building their capacities in M&E and in data demand &use
Actively engage in M&E strengthening in partner organisations, as required
Actively participate in Malaria Consortium's M&E cluster and contribute to organisational M&E strengthening initiatives
2. Reporting and Quality Assurance:
Offer technical guidance and assistance to project teams to ensure programme data is effectively managed and accurate for Malaria Consortium’s programmes.
Work closely with project managers to improve the project & programme performance
For existing projects, review their monitoring and evaluation projects to ensure that their plan for project monitoring are sound and provide guidance where necessary.
Guide routine monitoring data quality control in projects through the application of appropriate data quality assurance measures to validate data and monitor the quality,(validity, reliability, completeness and timeliness of collected routine monitoring data)
3. Technical support:
At project proposal development or project start up, provide input and guidance on the ideal monitoring system and structure that enables efficient routine data collection, reporting and use
At project start-up phase, lead the development and implementation of a robust project monitoring system. This includes but is not limited to;
o Conceptual design of a robust monitoring system that includes collection and aggregation
o Development of a suitable routine monitoring database that enables aggregation
o Development of an appropriate database for entry and aggregation of the routine data entered.
Review and contribute to project documents with M&E results and respond to projects' requests for specific M&E support
Contribute to proposal writing, developing M&E sections of funding proposals
Perform any other duties as required
Qualifications,
The candidate should possess a good postgraduate degree in public health with significant extensive experience in development and maintenance of routine project/programme monitoring systems.
Extensive experience of dedicated professional M&E experience in public health projects
Extensive cross-national working experience
Skills and Experience:
Past significant experience in set up and maintenance of ICT databases and systems.
Prior experience in electronic data collection, mobile health applications and basic programming
Computer literacy skills i.e. highly proficient in the use of large scale data entry & statistical analysis packages e.g. STATA, EpiData, CSPro
Professional experience in the field of malaria control and/or maternal, neo-natal and child health
Extensive knowledge of M&E reporting requirements of external donors (e.g. DFID, USAID, CIDA, foundations)
Willingness and availability to travel to all the organisation’s programme & project sites & offices across Afric a, Asia and the UK at short notice and for sets of several weeks (up to 30% of the time)
Past exposure and experience with infectious disease surveillance systems
Significant experience in quantitative methods and research design.
Comfortable at multi-tasking: handling multiple projects simultaneously and prioritizing assignments
Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to work effectively with people in diverse settings
Ability to work independently as well as part of teams
Apply:
All interested applicants should send their updates resumes / CVs, with covering letters outlining how you meet the person specification and your current salary information, to Human Resources at HR.Recruitment@malariaconsortium.org
NB: Only short listed candidates will be contacted within three weeks of the closing date.
Deadline: 1st June, 2014
At project proposal development or project start up, provide input and guidance on the ideal monitoring system and structure that enables efficient routine data collection, reporting and use
At project start-up phase, lead the development and implementation of a robust project monitoring system. This includes but is not limited to;
o Conceptual design of a robust monitoring system that includes collection and aggregation
o Development of a suitable routine monitoring database that enables aggregation
o Development of an appropriate database for entry and aggregation of the routine data entered.
Review and contribute to project documents with M&E results and respond to projects' requests for specific M&E support
Contribute to proposal writing, developing M&E sections of funding proposals
Perform any other duties as required
Qualifications,
The candidate should possess a good postgraduate degree in public health with significant extensive experience in development and maintenance of routine project/programme monitoring systems.
Extensive experience of dedicated professional M&E experience in public health projects
Extensive cross-national working experience
Skills and Experience:
Past significant experience in set up and maintenance of ICT databases and systems.
Prior experience in electronic data collection, mobile health applications and basic programming
Computer literacy skills i.e. highly proficient in the use of large scale data entry & statistical analysis packages e.g. STATA, EpiData, CSPro
Professional experience in the field of malaria control and/or maternal, neo-natal and child health
Extensive knowledge of M&E reporting requirements of external donors (e.g. DFID, USAID, CIDA, foundations)
Willingness and availability to travel to all the organisation’s programme & project sites & offices across Afric a, Asia and the UK at short notice and for sets of several weeks (up to 30% of the time)
Past exposure and experience with infectious disease surveillance systems
Significant experience in quantitative methods and research design.
Comfortable at multi-tasking: handling multiple projects simultaneously and prioritizing assignments
Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to work effectively with people in diverse settings
Ability to work independently as well as part of teams
Apply:
All interested applicants should send their updates resumes / CVs, with covering letters outlining how you meet the person specification and your current salary information, to Human Resources at HR.Recruitment@malariaconsortium.org
NB: Only short listed candidates will be contacted within three weeks of the closing date.
Deadline: 1st June, 2014
