Reporting to the Technical Director, the Director, Strategic Information and Evaluation is charged with providing leadership and direction to and management of the EGPAF Malawi country program’s strategic information and evaluation unit to help the country program better understand the overall state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country, progress made in achieving program goals, as well as ways in which to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the program’s interventions. The SI&E Director oversees all data collection, analysis, and utilization activities within the program. Additionally, he/she will lead all data quality and service delivery quality improvement initiatives and manage enhanced monitoring, evaluation, and research activities.
Duties and responsibilities include:
Technical responsibilities
- Leads the development and implementation an overall integrated M&E plan for EGPAF Malawi program.
- Ensures that EGPAF’s minimum standards in SI&E are met or exceeded each year.
- Coordinates all donor specific reporting requirements for all projects.
- Oversees the quality improvement strategy and implementation and work with other program team members to implement recommendations.
- Develops log frames for programs and/ or projects as required.
- Builds linkages between data reviews, use, and performance improvement.
- Oversees collection, validation, and storage of data on progress toward targets, in accordance with guidance provided by the donors and the Ministry of Health.
- Leads EGPAF’s program evaluations in country and dissemination of the promising practices /lessons leant.
- Supports the conduction of research, including designing and implementation of operations research studies.
- Works closely with other team leads to develop and implement evaluation priorities.
- Works with technical unit to identify and evaluate interventions to address key programmatic challenges using strong scientific methodology to inform the program, MOH, and the broader HIV field.
- Develops system for meaningful target setting and tracking of results achieved across a group of key indicators.
- Participates in country SI&E technical working groups and other interagency groups.
- Contributes to the documentation of program successes including the development of abstracts and manuscripts.
- Contributes to capacity building of EGPAF staff and fellows, partners, and MOH personnel in the SI&E through trainings, mentoring, and sharing/review of relevant scientific literature.
Management responsibilities
- Oversees a team of six or more individuals, including an M&E manager, a QI officer, a program evaluation’s Officer and M&E officers.
- Provides overall strategic leadership and vision for M&E team and sets annual team priorities.
- Oversee the development and implementation of unit’s work plan.
- Develop professional networks within and beyond Malawi in the SI&E field.
- Works collaboratively across teams in the organization to promote data usage and overall evidence based program management.
- Is a key member of the program’s Senior Management team
Required Qualifications:
- Advanced degree (Master’s degree or above)in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Public Health, Program Evaluation or health related discipline
- Proven experience in health evaluation and/or research in developing countries, including protocol writing, survey design, data collection, and data analysis. Scientific publication elaboration is an added advantage.
Experience and Skills:
- Minimum ten (10) years’ experience working in the design and implementation of strategic information and evaluation activities in HIV or a related area.
- Demonstrated strong written and verbal communication skills and strong team/capacity building experience.
- Proven self-starter and ability to work with limited supervision.
- Possesses determination to accomplish tasks on time with high degree of quality.
- Skilled in both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods.
- Experience working with United States Government (USG) donors, preferably PEPFAR programs.
HOW TO APPLY:
To apply, please upload your CV and application athttp://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj02/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=PEDAIDS&c...
