Technical Specialist at Abt Associates

Opportunity

Abt Associates seeks a qualified Technical Specialist 11 – AIRS Kenya Monitoring and Evaluation Manager to support the International Health Division in Kenya.

The USAID-funded PMI AIRS (Africa Indoor Residual Spraying 2) Project supports the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), as well as USAID Missions and Bureaus with malaria programs outside the PMI focus countries, in planning and implementing IRS programs with the overall goal of reducing the burden of malaria in Africa by enhancing USAID’s ability to implement IRS programs on the ground through cost-effective commodities procurement and logistics systems, access to technical expertise, and implementation of IRS in countries affected by malaria.

Under the supervision of the Chief of Party, the Technical Specialist 11 / Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Manager focuses on surveillance and information management, monitoring programmatic IRS delivery, and evaluating associated epidemiological, entomological, and environmental impact in targeted communities.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead the needs assessments and baseline surveys/data collection process prior to IRS campaigns.
• Lead establishment of routine M&E systems to support tracking of IRS program activities, progress, and performance.
• Improve programmatic monitoring efforts through managing the data collection of routine spray activities from county-based spray teams and reporting the data for internal and client use.
• Design, review and test M&E tools for reporting formats and data collection.
• Ensure appropriate skills are maintained with the national and county IRS staff through focused trainings for continued maintenance of the established M&E tracking systems.
• Track and report data on all project indicators to the Abt Home Office, PMI/Kenya and PMI/Washington. This includes regular updating of the project’s official Monitoring and Evaluation Plan.
• Prepare performance monitoring plans, including developing and defining program indicators and sources of data, as well as annual reports and other project documents.
• Conduct periodic internal Data Quality Assessments and prepare the project for possible external Data Quality Audits to ensure validity, integrity, precision, reliability and timeliness of all performance data, identifying gaps and suggesting corrective actions on time.
• The position requires frequent travel to IRS implementing counties and field sites for routine monitoring, program supervision, and support.

Preferred Skill / Prerequisites

• Masters Degree in a relevant social science field, such as Public Health/Environmental health, Community Health, or Statistics.
• At least six (6) years of relevant professional experience in program monitoring and evaluation and in research, with previous IRS or other malaria program experience desirable.
• Experience in MS Access, GIS applications; and GPS measurement data collection desirable.
• Experience and familiarity with USAID program monitoring and evaluation, and performance monitoring.
• Strong analytic and quantitative database management skills, budgeting and report writing.
• English language fluency.

Minimum Qualifications

(8+) years of experience and a master degree OR the equivalent combination of education and experience.