Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at Health Strat Kenya

We are inviting applications from experienced and qualified individuals for the position of M&E Officer based in our Nairobi Office.

Job Purpose: Monitoring and Evaluation & Strategic Information Systems (MESIS) Project is a project led by Health Strat in partnership with the National AIDS and STI Control Program (NASCOP) through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The project supports enhancing strategic information capacity for HIV/AIDS programs towards sustaining epidemic control in Kenya through monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and data science.

Reporting to the SI Technical Lead, the M&E Officer will carry out strategic information responsibilities related to the program, including all monitoring, evaluation, analytics, and reporting of performance and results.

S/he will support efforts to strengthen monitoring and evaluation, and support NASCOP through Strategic Information Research and Implementation science (SIRI) team to monitor, document and analyze the performance of HIV/TB services and activities.

Primary Responsibilities

• Generate and provide inputs, information and statistics for quarterly, semi-annual, annual and other project reports.
• Support the SI Technical Lead and Evaluation Advisor to maintain the overall framework for project M&E.
• In collaboration with SIRI team, support HIV M&E work including but not limited to monitoring the uptake of M&E tools and assessing data quality indicators for data reported through KHIS
• In collaboration with the NASCOP SIRI Team Lead and project SI Technical Lead, support compilation and dissemination of national and county performance reports.
• Provide technical assistance and mentorship to SIRI, County Health Management Teams and build their capacity to use information for decision making.
• In collaboration with NASCOP and other SI stakeholders, participate in field visits for data verification, support supervision and data quality assessments
• Provide support in the preparation of the NASCOP SI work plans and budgets
• Participate in the annual MOH-PEPFAR data alignment activity.

Person Specifications:

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Biostatistics / Health Records and Information / Public Health Informatics / Computer Science or equivalent.
• Master’s degree in relevant field will be an added advantage

Professional Qualifications:

• Training on DHIS-2 and/or other relevant open source software used for HIV/TB data management.

Experience & Skills:

• Minimum of 3 years’ work experience in implementing M&E systems, ensuring data quality, and managing data intensive, performance-based programs.
• Experience providing M&E support for HIV/TB.
• Demonstrable experience with DHIS-2, DATIM, and other HIV/TB data management and reporting platforms.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and coordinating data collection, processing and analysis systems.
• Demonstrated ability on manipulation, analysis and visualization of quality data for decision making using STATA, SAS, Power BI, GIS etc.
• Strong interpersonal communication and facilitation skills.
• Willingness to undertake regular field visits and interact with different stakeholders
• Computer skills: Hands on competency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Acces