Organization Overview
The International Health Division is committed to the improvement of health and healthcare delivery around the world. Serving both the public and private sectors, our efforts include health policy research and evaluation, health promotion and disease prevention, health finance, and health systems management. Our impact is felt in policies that ensure healthcare access for women, children, and individuals with special needs, in strengthening health infrastructures, and HIV/AIDS solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical oversight for designing, development, planning, implementation; and capacity-building of monitoring and evaluation of assigned unit level programs.
- Provide quality technical assistance to assigned country programs
- Provide desk and on-site monitoring and evaluation oversight to assigned unit program, as appropriate.
- Participate in resource development and other writing on assigned area activities.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Contribution
- Develop strategies and tools for the design and implementation of surveillance, monitoring and evaluation components.
- Manage the assigned unit's reporting cycle.
- Conduct monitoring visit to project sites.
- Conduct analysis of program implementation to identify areas of weakness or opportunity vis a vis the appropriate technical strategy and guidelines.
- Develop and monitor work plans, including surveillance, monitoring and evaluation workplans.
- Analyze data sets and technical assessment findings.
- Prepare reports and papers summarizing project results.
- Conduct presentations at professional meetings and conferences.
- Contribute to peer review publication in peer review journals and in international fora
- Ensure that project implementation adheres to the appropriate global strategy and remains technically sound.
- Provide leadership and team building at the assigned unit level.
Skills Prerequisites
- Has knowledge and experience in specific technical area related to, public health, HIV/AIDS/RH/FP, health and or development and/or social science research health programs in developing countries.
- Is informed on current program developments in unit area of expertise by review of current literature and alert colleagues and/or management team to any implication of such research for project activities.
- Has sensitivity to cultural diversity and understanding of the political and ethical issues in assigned areas, e.g. reproductive health, family planning, HIV infection, health and development
- Can interpret data and draw appropriate conclusions to their significance and relevance to public health.
- Is familiar with donor funded programs and communication styles.
- Has writing and verbal communication skills.
- Has relevant language skills (if applicable).
- Work independently with initiative to manage high volume work flow.
- Has relevant computer software skills at a minimum, the standard applications in MS Office, data analysis software (eg: SPSS, STATA, EPIINFO, CHASS)
- MA/MBA with with minimum of 8 years of experience OR the equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Degree in public health, statistics or social sciences preferable.
Minimum Qualifications
8+ years of experience OR the equivalent combination of education and experience.
This position is located in Mozambique.
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