Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Deloitte Consulting

Main purpose of the job

The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will work under the direct supervision of the Monitoring & Evaluation Manager in coordinating the implementation of Monitoring & Evaluation support in the Deloitte East Africa’s Mastercard Foundation Saving Lives and Livelihood (SLL) funded Programme. He/she will provide technical support in implementation and management of comprehensive data quality processes, program evaluations and review of progress narrative reports in specific regional hubs in Africa.

Job Description

• Develop and review SLL implementing partners progress report templates for the specific countries within the assigned regional African hub.
• Perform technical and competent reviews of monthly SLL implementing partners progress narrative reports to develop synthesized/ highly summarized reports for use and consumption by the SLL Africa member state country leadership within the regional African hub.
• Develop standard data collection and reporting tools / templates for use that capture the aspiration of SLL programme goals and objectives within the regional hub.
• Develop robust performance dashboards that visualizes SLL programme performance data including pulling data from the Saving Lives and Livelihood District Health Information System (SLL DHIS2) platform / system.
• Develop standardized data tools for conducting data quality audits using the systems assessment and data verification approaches including DQA Standard Operating Procedures) (SOPs).
• Coordinate data quality assessments / audits (DQAs) for the SLL COVID – 19 programme within the assigned specific African regional hub member states.
• Coordinate development of DQA reports highlighting DQA findings, strengths, weakness, and recommendations to improve data quality for the SLL programme.
• Develop and customize a mechanism for tracking implementation of DQA improvement plans and corrective actions by the SLL implementing partners within the assigned specific African regional hub countries.
• Develop and customize evaluation design and evaluation questions that meet the goals and objectives of SLL COVID – 19 programme within the specific assigned African regional hub.
• Actively participate in the technical evaluation reference groups (ERGs) including incorporation of ERG inputs / suggestions in the evaluation technical write materials.
• Conduct evaluability assessment for the SLL implementing partners and key stakeholders including developing evaluability assessment tools and generation of the evaluability assessment report within African countries in the assigned hub.
• Develop and review program evaluation data collection tools / instruments such as key informant interviews, interview schedules, questionnaires, desk reviews and focus groups discussions (FDGs) among others.
• Coordinate and conduct program evaluation including process and outcome evaluations activities within the assigned specific African regional hub countries.
• Coordinate preparation and review of program evaluation reports highlighting key evaluation findings that answers SLL programme evaluation key questions.
• Take an active role in the supervision of external evaluation consultants including managing the external consultants’ deliverables within the assigned specific African regional hub countries.
• Coordinate DQA and evaluation activities for in – country visits for the assigned specific African regional hub countries.
• Disseminate and present performance dashboards, DQA and evaluation findings to SLL key stakeholders.
• Manage, supervise and build capacity of a team of M&E technical staff and temporary hires within the assigned specific African regional hub countries.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Epidemiology, Public health, Demography, or a related field.  A Master’s degree will be an added advantage.
• At least 6 years’ experience in M&E, preferably in a large scale multi – country donor funded programme.
• Strong hands-on experience in managing and conducting Data Quality Audits/ Assessments (DQAs) including data verification and implementation of DQA improvement plans and corrective actions.
• Demonstratable experience and knowledge in conducting competent program process and outcome evaluations.
• Strong ability to review program narrative reports with good technical acumen in generation of synthesized summarized report.
• Demonstrated experience with National Health Management Information Systems such as DHIS2.
• Good experience in developing, review and presenting performance dashboards.
• Experience working in SLL programs / projects including COVID – 19 response initiatives will be an added advantage.
• Willingness to travel across African Countries within the assigned Africa regional hub.
• Ability to work productively in a multi-cultural team environment with diverse background.