Summary
Date Posted: Friday, May 13, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
JOB TITLE Programme Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Officer
REPORTING TO NTD Programme Manager
DEPARTMENT/UNIT WASH/NTDs/PHER
NUMBER OF POSITIONS One (1)
DURATION OF CONTRACT 2 years (Renewable)
DUTY STATION Nairobi, Kenya

Amref Health Africa was founded in 1957 and has since grown to become the largest African-based international health development organization, currently implementing more than 120 programs, directly reaching more than 12 million people across 35 African countries. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref Health Africa has offices in ten countries in Africa and an additional eleven advocacy and fundraising offices in Europe and North America. In the spirit of Ubuntu, partnership and networking are key elements of our approach. Amref has a staff complement of over 1,500.

Amref Health Africa is driven by its vision of ‘Lasting health change in Africa’ and its mission ‘To increase sustainable health access to communities in Africa through solutions in human resources for health, health service delivery, and investments in health’.

OVERVIEW OF DEWORMING INNOVATION FUND PROGRAMME (DIF)

The Deworming Innovation Fund (DIF) goal is the subnational interruption of transmission of Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH) and Schistosomiasis (SCH) in four western Counties – Bungoma, Kakamega, Trans-Nzoia and Vihiga by the year 2025. This will be through achieving <2% prevalence for STH and SCH among at-risk populations, validated by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) testing.

The key objectives to achieve this goal are:

Objective 1: High Mass Drug Administration (MDA) coverage for Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis and (STH) and Schistosomiasis (SCH)
Objective 2: Improved decision-making, coordination and planning between WASH and NTD programs at National and at Sub-national level
Objective 3: Increased demand for and awareness of deworming services among relevant different populations

The following strategies will be implemented to achieve the Program’s goal:
a) Mapping for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis
b) Expand and Increased Mass Drug Administration coverage
c) Increased behavior change communication and NTD-WASH interventions
d) Increased advocacy, coordination and partnerships
e) Strengthen systems for monitoring, evaluation, surveillance and research

Through the achievement of the above objectives, it is expected that in five years, the target counties will have targeted implementation units achieving elimination criteria (≤ 2% prevalence for STH and SCH as measured by qPCR) and change in prevalence and intensity of STH and SCH among sampled individuals compared to baseline mapping.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
To provide technical support in setting up and managing functional monitoring, Evaluation and learning systems within Amref Health Africa NTD programmes in coordination with various amref units and external stakeholders.

Technical Leadership
• Provide direct technical assistance to ensure high quality program results and execution across projects in the area of specialization.
• Contribute to work planning, coordination across internal partners, and lead their engagement in collaborative projects.
• Develop monitoring, evaluation, research and learning tools, indicators, and plans.
• Communicate with other technical advisors to build, share, exchange and disseminate technical knowledge to internal and external collaborators.
• Collaborate with technical teams to design technical training and development activities that will support and build professional development in area of specialty.
• Provide leadership to consulting firms from development of ToR’s in area of specialty to delivery of assigned tasks

Organizational leadership and development
• Represent amref in various meetings, actively engage key stakeholders, cultivate new business partnerships and concepts.
• Build project portfolio in technical specialty area in collaboration with county and Ministry of health division of vector born and neglected diseases (DVBNTD)
• Write and Publish papers, articles, and blogs. Present at conferences/participate in technical working groups on amref project-related technical innovations, priorities, and results. Build amref reputation as a thought leader in the field.
• Consult and coordinate with key stakeholders within government, donors, and other entities to build amref NTD program and MoH Division of vector born and neglected diseases and reputation.

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
• Play programme leadership role, participate in company initiatives and teams to build intellectual and human capital in technical area of specialization Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.
• Support the technical through development and deployment of Performance monitoring plan that will evaluate and report on deliverables as designed in the workplan corelating programmatic and fiscal performance of the projects
• Lead the development and implementation of amref projects M&E plan, including collecting and cleaning relevant data, checking quality, and synthesizing reports.

• Provide technical leadership in carrying out baseline assessments, mid-point and end of project reviews and assessments
• Provide leadership working in collaboration with technical teams to design and implement required survey protocols and survey’s e.g. coverage evaluation survey’s.
• Provide leadership and technical guidance to the amref and division teams in the implementation of reporting tools during Mass Drug Administration based on standard and developed tools.
• Provide leadership in the innovation for digitization of reporting during Mass Drug Administrations and various surveys.
• Work with the IT team to maintain a database for the various requirements for tools.
• Lead the teams in reporting to the various reporting platforms in Amref.
• Support technical teams to ensure quarterly project and program performance review meetings are held.
• Work proactively with the Ministry of Health, key partners and stakeholders to report progress, impact and best practices in county national and international forums.
• Develop a mechanism to provide regular capacity building of Technical county Program Officers.
• Produce high quality reporting content and documents as stipulated in the project’s document for directorate and donors.
• Conduct quarterly and ad hoc field monitoring to each project County to verify data and program activities reported by partners.
• Develop and implement a data quality assurance plan and provide technical support to improve quality of data and reporting systems.
• Coordinate and facilitate all evidence gathering activities including program evaluations and research activities.
• Coordinate project reflection and learning sessions in conjunction with project partners.

Monitoring and Evaluation and Policy Support
• Develop a workplan with the Ministry of Health MoH Division of vector born and neglected diseases team outlining amref support based on the needs of the division and approved work plan.
• Working with microplanning partners to main stream innovations supporting data demand and information use at the national KHIS and county level.
• Support MoH Division of vector born and neglected diseases in the integration and layering of WASH, behavior change communication and NTD data to be used in strategic decision-making data national and county level.
• Support creating, managing, and maintaining a data repository for MoH Division of vector born and neglected diseases and supported counties
• Support development of minimum data sets and data requirements, including reporting tools and templates Working proactively with the Ministry of Health, key partners and stakeholders to operationalize a reporting system for Mass Drug Administration activities, surveillance reporting and survey’s on KHIS and DHIS.
• Document lessons learnt from the NTD program through policy briefs, blogs, Podcast in collaboration with technical team and the communication team to execute the communication strategy for the program and amref in general.
• Disseminate best practices from counties in the context of NTD’s.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS Education and Professional Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in public health, medicine, or related field.
• Post graduate training will be an added advantage.

Required Qualifications and Experience
• Minimum eight (8) years’ relevant work experience, including program/project management experience in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in non-state actors with the WASH & NTD programming.
• Demonstrable experience of development and deployment of scientific survey’s and manuscripts for publications.
• Demonstrated management and leadership skills working on large programs with rigorous financial management procedures and processes;
• Ability to work well with others and to communicate effectively
• Ability to coordinate diverse activities while maintaining attention to detail.
• Technical knowledge in WASH and behavior change communication and/or one or more of the five leading pharmaco-therapy NTDs.
• Experience in intervention projects with strong community involvement.
• Hands on experience in project development, proposal writing and grant management
• Experience in project monitoring and evaluation.
• Knowledge of the Government health system

Skills and Competencies
• Ability to build strong working relationships for partnerships.
• Excellent networking and advocacy skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills working with cross cultural and multi diverse teams.
• Highly organized and able to set priorities and handle multiple competing time and resource demands.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Interested? Please visit our website www.amref.org  to make your application. You will be directed to our online portal where you will need to create an account successfully in order for you to be able to submit your application. Your application should include a cover letter detailing why you are the best fit for this position and your CV with relevant skills and experience. Please note that you will receive an email confirmation for creation of account and an acknowledgment email upon submitting your application. Deadline for submission: 20 May 2022. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Duly note that Amref Health Africa does not require applicants to pay any fee at whatever stage of the recruitment and selection process.

Amref Health Africa is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Amref Health Africa is an equal opportunity employer and has a non-smoking environment policy.

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