Project Overview

The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the Reaching Impact, Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE) Project additional one-year funding (1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025) to continue supporting voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services in Iringa, Morogoro, Njombe, Singida and Tabora regions. The USAID RISE VMMC Project works collaboratively with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PORALG) with implementation oversight from five Regional Health Management Teams (RHMTs) and 35 Council Health Management Teams (CHMTs) in project-supported regions.

Position Summary

The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Assistant is the lead Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) position in project-supported regions working collaboratively with VMMC and health management information system (HMIS) focal persons at regional and council level. The M&E Assistant supports and co-facilitates data literacy, management, analysis and utilization among health care providers to comply with MOH’s M&E tools and standard operating procedures. S/he works collaboratively with the RISE regional team (RRT), RHMTs and CHMTs in consultation with the RISE MEL Advisor, to whom the M&E Assistant reports. Within RRT, the M&E Assistant works closely with the Quality Assurance (QA) Assistant and Cluster Project Officer (CPO) positions to engage RHMTs and CHMTs to create awareness of national VMMC targets, support documentation and data reporting through the national and donor data systems, monitor progress towards achieving national and project targets, provide regular data analysis to identify trends and support timely and targeted course correction and remediation.

Reports to:                             Advisor – Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)

Position supervised:              None

Location:                                 Singida

This position will be closed on October 10. 2024

• Provide updated data on daily basis to support use of a responsive internal VMMC dashboard for performance tracking and reporting requirements at a frequency prescribed internally and by Jhpiego, USAID and PEPFAR.
• Support MOH data personnel at council level to report data into the national District Health Information System version 2 (DHIS2) and coordinate to address discrepancies with the PEPFAR Data for Accountability, Transparency and Impact Monitoring (DATIM).
• Facilitate implementation of routine data quality assessments and client verification as part of regular monitoring of service delivery to ensure safety and integrity.
• Disseminate monthly performance data to regions, councils and facilities to encourage data for decision-making using engaging formats such as data visualization.
• Conduct data analysis of program implementation and share local insights to promote a data-driven adaptive learning culture during internal and external review meetings.
• Provide relevant data to contribute to reports, presentations, abstracts, articles, stories and publications through performance analysis and data visualization.
• Support implementation of new strategies that are data driven using action learning approaches to generate insights into site-specific performance and adapt changes.
• Contribute real time data and local insights to facilitate troubleshooting in the team, identify barriers in a timely fashion and support data-driven decision-making.
• Represent the project in region and council meetings to share M&E results, lessons, implications and recommendations to influence best practice and advocate changes.
• Perform other duties assigned from time-to-time by your supervisor.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in information or data science, M&E, health informatics, action learning or evidence-based practice, biostatistics, research.
• At least 2 years’ experience implementing monitoring, evaluation, research and data analysis activities, particularly in HIV prevention. Experience with VMMC desirable.
• Experience managing M&E activities in donor-funded programs an added advantage.
• Experience using DHIS2 and DATIM databases, data collection using digital platforms (e.g. CommCare, ODK) and data visualization applications (e.g. MS Power Bi) preferred.
• Field oriented and comfortable using data with R/CHMTs, health care providers, CSOs, inspiring teamwork and motivating colleagues and partners to embrace data for decision-making.
• Experience working with USAID, MOH, PORALG, INGOs and CSOs desirable.
• Strong change management results oriented and decision making skills.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating training and building capacity of individuals and organizations.
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills in Kiswahili and English.
• Demonstrated self-management (e.g. motivation, dealing with pressure, adaptability, diplomacy).
• Competency using MS Office (email, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% time.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external customers those contacted during work.
• Planning and negotiation skills required
• Good level of computer literacy, conversant with all Microsoft products