Public Health Evaluation Specialist at Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK)

Job Summary

• The job holder is responsible for supporting the CHAK team in all aspects of the HIV-NCD Integration project work related to program and analytical support services, short term analyses, technical assistance, and support for its information and related programs to further the mission of testing and evaluation of HIV-NCD integration model feasibility, systemic requirements, cost implications, challenges, acceptability for both patients and health care workers, and proposed solutions for successful implementation and scale -up.

Duties and responsibilities

• Develop logic models and evaluation plans with data collection protocols, align the evaluation plan with activities identified for the project, develop a data map aligned to the logic models that indicates data availability, and analyze existing data.
• Establish and strengthen M&E systems to ensure the project achieve the outcomes.
• Oversee the creation of resources that provide technical assistance to support evaluation efforts.
• Analytic techniques apply in the evaluation of project objectives and implementation for the tasks including the feasibility, pilot and evaluation studies
• Prepares comprehensive written reports, presentations and charts based on research, collection and analysis of data
• Prepares evaluation reports of evidence-based findings, lessons learned, challenges and action items to support decision-making and planning
• Oversee the development of technical assistance resources to support evaluation efforts
• Designs study data collection instruments, including questionnaires, focus group moderator guides and semi-structured interview guides
• Executes feasibility, pilot and evaluation studies, including identifying approaches, methodologies and timelines
• Assist in the production of reports and, if appropriate, abstracts, scientific positions and manuscripts for peer-reviewed publications and presentations; provide input for presentations at scientific conferences and meetings.
• Manage and oversee the communication with and work of external evaluators hired to support the evaluation efforts of the initiative.

Academic qualifications and experience

• Master's Degree in Healthcare Informatics, Health Economics, Statistics, Program Evaluation or related areas and basic degree in Medicine.
• Five (5) years' experience crafting data collection instruments for both quantitative (surveys/questionnaires) and qualitative (interview/focus group guides) approaches
• Five (5) years' experience in conducting sophisticated, multi-level quantitative and qualitative data analyses
• Five (5) years' experience with research design and methodology including application of Human Subjects Research Protections

Desired skills, knowledge, and abilities

• Experience identifying, developing and/or designing a preliminary evaluation design, evaluation instruments, data collection plan, data dictionary, data analysis plan, questions to be addressed by the evaluation study and evaluation study
• Experience designing, executing and reporting feasibility and pilot studies. This includes collecting and conducting comprehensive analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data and/or information on unit performance in the study and preparing high quality, professional summary reports, documents and presentations that details the evaluation questions, design, results, discussion and outcomes of the study
• Proficiency in statistical analysis and interpretation of complex datasets to draw meaningful insights and inform decision-making.
• Strong ICT skills, particularly in developing management information systems (MIS) and using data visualization tools to present data effectively. i.e., SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics, REDCap, MySQL, Microsoft Excel, SAS, STATA and R Programming
• Experience developing technical assistance resources to promote increased fidelity in the application of identified models.
• Strong writing skills are required due to the position's involvement in grant writing and evaluation report writing.