Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Officer, Kenya HERO at Abt Associates

The Opportunity

• Abt Associates seeks three Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Officers to join the USAID-funded Kenya Health Equity Resource Optimization (HERO) Project. In this role, you will be responsible for collecting high quality data for the M&E activities of the USAID HERO Kenya project activities, and ensuring the data collected conforms to established M&E procedures and formats. You will be responsible for implementing USAID HERO project M&E processes to demonstrate periodic changes and program impact, generating both quantitative and qualitative outputs; and for other M&E related tasks as defined by the Project Management and the Monitoring Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team. You will also act as learning focal point at the county and regional and play a critical role in recording and disseminating learning from the USAID HERO project at those levels.

Core Responsibilities
MEL (60%)

• Collect and collate M&E data according to project’s M&E guidelines, policies, and reporting formats.
• Conduct of routine monitoring visits to project sites, including the conduct of data verification, and validation and data quality assessments (DQAs).
• Execute a quality-checking mechanism for information received from the project team and partners (including CSOs), to ensure high level of accuracy and clarity in data collection and reporting.
• Advise regional USAID HERO project staff and partners (CSOs) on issues of data quality and compliance with M&E standards and processes.
• As project learning focal point, document the project outcomes/best practices with support from field staff for learning and sharing, within the regional clusters and counties.
• Support project in organizing and coordinating learning sessions at county and regional levels.
• Prepare monthly M&E reports and share with the regional coordinators before the final submission to M&E director for further actions.
• Attend relevant meetings at county and regional level and ensure effective linking, learning, and sharing.
• Respond to requests for information in a timely manner by providing high quality data about USAID HERO project.
• Accompany national and/or international visitors including funder representatives as requested by the regional coordinators, particularly where this is related to projects’ monitoring and evaluation or related areas (e.g. research).

Data Analytics (40%)

• Work closely with County Ministry of Health teams, regional training institutions, and other stakeholders while building their capacity in deployment and use of information systems and data analytics for evidence-based planning and decision-making.
• Form County Information system technical working groups to oversee the operations of systems.
• Work closely with regional training institutions, Ministries of Health and other partners in the design and implementation of data analytics and data dashboards.
• Management of system deployment and data analysis includes working with implementation teams and end users to specify functional requirements, versions, updates, remote/onsite user support, create dashboards, data mining and data querying.
• Capacity build technical teams to use and manage the digital platforms and dashboards.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned and approved within the Abt team.

What We Value

• Bachelor’s degree and two years of experience, or Master's degree preferably in Statistics, Mathematics, Social Sciences, Project Management, IT, or a related field
• At least two years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, with experience executing M&E tools and methodology, data collection and analysis.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and data analysis software such as Stata or SPSS
• Proficiency in DHIS2 or iHRIS, PowerBi, Tableau, Python among other tools and applications is desirable.
• Experience in information system administration and reporting.
• Professional experience interacting with representatives from ministries of health, private and public sector, civil society organizations, national health professional councils, Social Protection Secretariat, and other non-governmental organizations is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to develop high-quality reports, deliverables, especially for USAID and donor clients.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• English proficiency is required.