Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer at American Institutes for Research

Responsibilities

The responsibilities for the position include:

• Work with the MEL Specialist to develop, refine and test data collection tools on a routine basis.
• Participate in data collection with site visits to health facilities around Kenya, and periodically supervise data collection.
• Conduct county in-brief and out-brief sessions during each cycle of data collection.
• Review site visit data.
• Support data management and quality assessment.
• Identify gaps in data collection and provide enhanced data quality assurance.
• Analyze qualitative data collected during the site visits to help in the interpretation of the quantitative data and observations made during the data verification visits.
• Draft timely and concise reports from quantitative and qualitative data collected from site visits.
• Assist in the presentation of findings, conclusions and recommendations to program stakeholders as requested.
• Review and analyze secondary data from national health databases and other reporting platforms
• Support selection and sampling of health facilities for site visits.
• Ensure that the TPM dashboard is up to date with the latest data collected from the site visits.
• Support other tasks as requested by the Supervisor.

Qualifications

Education, Knowledge, and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree preferred, in monitoring and evaluations, statistics, informatics, mathematics, or another quantitative field and a minimum of five years’ experience in M&E, learning, data analytics or related activities for USG and/or donor-funded programs.
• Experience developing data collection and management tools.
• Experience in carrying out quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with the Kenya health system including commodity management.
• Experience working in Kenya.

Skills

• Willingness to travel throughout Kenya, including some remote and difficult environments.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.