Monitoring and Evaluation Officer-Analysis at Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK)

Job Profile

• CHAK is seeking to hire an experienced Monitoring and Evaluation Officer – Analysis to be based in Embu supporting the CDC- funded CHAP Stawisha project. The project supports HIV/TB/OVC services in faith based and county health facilities across 15 counties in the country, with offices in Meru, Embu, Kitui and Nairobi.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Collect, verify, collate, and report all data required for PEPFAR/ CDC, MOH and CHAK reports. This encompasses data cleaning and upload to DATIM, CPMIS and 3 PM on weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
• Support in roll out and implementation of case-based surveillance (CBS) activities in facilities
• Take part in county/sub county/facility data review and data consumption meetings and accompanying narratives are reliable and accurate.
• Capacity building of project, MOH and facility staff in quality data collection, analysis, dissemination, and use of health information at county and health facility levels for program planning and management
• Support the identification of case studies and human-interest stories for inclusion in periodic progress reports to the donor, CHAK, and stakeholders.
• Instill a culture of data demand and use, including the provision of routine high-level statistical analyses for program evidence-based decision making and adaptability.
• Strengthen use of visualization and analytics, at program county and facility level to improve program performance, data quality and use.
• To provide support in the development and application of M&E Tools in the project.
• Facilitate implementation of EMR and HIS products at implementing sites as approved by the Project and MOH and ensure technical support is provided as needed.
• Support technical M&E needs at implementing facilities and at program level.
• Collaborate with County Health Management Teams (CHMTs) and County Department of Children Services (CDCS) to conduct routine data quality audit (DQA)/validation, provide targeted feedback to improve data quality and follow up on data quality improvement plans (DQIP) in all the supported sites.
• Ensure DDIU Trend analysis are routinely disseminated and encourage use of them at both central, regional and health facilities’ levels.
• Conduct data analysis for patient level data for abstract and manuscript development for presentation in local and international conferences, publications
• Provide inputs and technical support in design and deployment of HMIS and M&E Tools.
• Any other lawful duties as assigned by your supervisor within the scope and nature of this position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biostatistics or Epidemiology, health informatics, Information Science, or other relevant health-related degree from an accredited university.
• A Masters’ degree in epidemiology or biostatistics will be an added advantage.
• Experience of at least five (5) years in Monitoring and Evaluation in PEPFAR programs
• Proven experience in survey and research tool design, data collection, statistical analysis, qualitative research, and dissemination of results
• Experience in the use of PEPFAR programs M&E systems and platforms like DATIM, KHIS2 and KenyaEMR, to support a learning agenda and evolve a theory of change to maximize impact.
• Experience in planning, implementing, and monitoring of M&E activities with CHMTs.
• Understanding of Kenya Health Systems
• Expertise in MS office suite – Excel, Access & PowerPoint), Data visualisation tools like Power-BI
• Expertise in the use of Statistical tools like SAS, Stata, R or SPSS
• Strong knowledge and experience in supporting Collaborative, Learning, and Adaptation (CLA) processes.