Sudan: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, South Sudan

Overview

Position: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Based in Juba, Republic of South Sudan

Ministry:**Health**

Program: Malaria Control Program

Reports to: National Monitoring and Evaluation Director, and NMCP Director at MOH -RSS

Who we are

With over 45 years of experience, working in over 50 countries, Population Services International (PSI) is the world's leading non-profit social marketing organization. PSI is reimagining healthcare, by putting the consumer at the center, and wherever possible – bringing care to the front door. We are working to fix market failures, shape future health markets and shift policy and funding to better support consumer powered healthcare.

There are over 7,000 “PSI'ers” around the world. We are a diverse group of entrepreneurial development professionals with a wide range of backgrounds and experience. All with unique skills that we bring to the critically important work that we do.

Join us!

The National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) located in the MOH Directorate of Community and Public Health, along with other disease control programs. The NMCP has the overall responsibility of planning, implementation, reporting and monitoring of malaria activities to ensure malaria program objectives are achieved. The National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) has the objective of reducing morbidity and mortality due to malaria.

Under the overall guidance of DG, Planning, M&E and Research, the M&E Specialist will provide M&E expertise in the development and implementation of the malaria M&E Plan, build capacities of staff at the States , Counties and ensure that malaria data quality standards are monitored, met and reported timely. The M&E Specialist will oversee state M&E Officers and he/she will work very closely with the National M&E Department and States M&E units to document malaria M&E result chain (outputs, outcomes and impact). The M&E specialist will also work closely with the M&E focal persons of the PR, SRs and SSRs.

Sound like you? Read on.

Responsibilities

Your contribution

The selected candidate will work under the direct supervision of National Malaria Control program Director and National M&E Director at the MOH/GOSS and in close coordination and collaboration with the State Malaria Coordinators, PR, SRs, WHO and other partners in Juba. He /She is expected to undertake the following activities:

• Provide technical support to the MOH at all levels, NMCP, SRs and other health partners to strengthen their monitoring and evaluation systems for Malaria program, including the development of reporting tools and surveillance systems.
• Provide team leadership, management, and technical support to the implementation of the M&E program areas highlighted within the NMCP's Strategic plan.
• Provide technical support and oversee the MIS for the NMCP.
• Develop systems and tools, and training materials to train the state M&E officers and other implementing partners personnel;
• Review and analyze existing national systems for monitoring Malaria interventions. Set up effective and well-coordinated evaluation systems (between national coordination bodies and multi-sectoral stakeholders).
• Facilitate program performance review on a quarterly basis; and develop the actionable plan for addressing the discrepancies discovered problem solving and development of remedial actions ensuring any disparity between planned and actual outputs are addressed;
• Analyze malaria information databases and prepare quarterly and annual programmatic progress updates
• Develop M&E plans and performance-based framework for the NMCP and coordination of M&E reviews
• Develop monitoring and evaluation tools and processes for malaria program;
• Conduct periodic M&E visits to health facilities and organize training of relevant staffs in M&E.
• Develop quality assurance systems for M&E including supportive supervision and data validation
• Support NMCP and partners to conduct appropriate operations research including drug efficacy, vector susceptibility and Malaria Indicator Surveys.
• Support NMCP to establish and regularly update a central malaria database based on key agreed upon indicators
• Carry out any other assigned duties as requested by the NMCP Director and M&E Director

Expected Key Deliverables:

• Functional M&E systems and tools in place
• M&E plan for Malaria for the NMCP
• Work-plan for M&E activities
• Reports of the M&E site visits
• Relevant M&E tools developed
• Finalize M&E framework
• Quality assurance Plan for M&E in place**Qualifications**

What we are looking for?

The candidate we hire will embody PSI's corporate values:

• Measurement: You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.
• Pragmatism: You'll strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You won't be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.
• Honesty: You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it's the only way you'll learn and improve.
• Collaboration: You'll quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you won't succeed.
• Trust: You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt
• Commitment: You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI serves its consumers and partners with host-country governments through thick and thin

Our ideal candidate will possess:

• Masters degree in public health, demography, statistics, social sciences or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum seven years' M&E experience ,at least five years' experience contributing M&E leadership to projects, preferably in South Sudan or the East Africa region
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, operations research, health management information systems, reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation
• Demonstrable analytical skills and experiences to identify and evaluate best practices and state-of-the-art approaches to be utilized by the project
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in national programs and technical staff in M&E
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of South Sudan's healthcare system (especially the health management information system and other national M&E systems); experience living and working in South Sudan preferred
• Excellent writing and communications skills in English, including demonstrated technical writing skills for publication
• Familiarity with Global Fund administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems;
• Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Access
• Ability to travel up to 50% of time
• References will be required.
• The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check.

Due to high volume of applications, only finalists will be contacted. Curious about your status? Please log into your iCIMS account to find out.

STATUS

• Non-Exempt

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

PI108357039

Apply Here

Apply Here