Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Centre for Health Solutions - Kenya (CHS)

Reference Number: 02/CHS/PO/2018

Purpose

Reporting to Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will be responsible for coordinating all M&E field-related activities and providing constant feedback to the program teams and health care workers in DICES

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate routine data management activities that include; data collection, cleaning, validation, compilation analysis, and reporting to relevant stakeholders.
• Facilitate the process of developing the capacity of health care workers to monitor and evaluate strategic programming for key populations.
• Ensure timely and proper implementation of the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) monitoring and evaluation guidelines including the roll-out of new tools in all CHS-supported DICEs.
• Contribute in the review and/or development of monitoring and evaluation tools and systems that are responsive to data needs.
• Strengthen data utilization for decision making at DICES, counties and program level.
• Work closely with stakeholders to strengthen systems for monitoring client’s outcomes; monitoring the quality of care; tracing clients who default; and data quality assurance.
• Support data quality initiatives and prepare data analysis required for program performance review as well as for quarterly and annual progress reports.
• Provide expertise in developing and/or review of indicators for monitoring and evaluation of program performance.
• Document best M&E practices and disseminate the same to relevant stakeholders.
• Respond to ad hoc requests for collection and analysis of data when the need arises.
• Act as a link between CHS and stakeholders on all dices data related issues.
• Actively contribute and participate in conducting project self-assessments and addressing the M&E capacity gaps that are identified.
• Assist all relevant stakeholders to make use of data to aid informed decision-making by availing analyzed datasets.

Person Specifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Biostatistics, Information Technology or any other related discipline.
• Training in M&E systems will be an added advantage.
• At least 3 years’ experience in supporting M&E systems for public health projects.
• Proficiency in the use of spreadsheet packages (Ms-excel), database management systems (Ms-Access or Epi-Info), Ms-Word, Ms-Power-Point, the internet, SPSS or STATA.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Good analytical and presentation skills