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, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer leads the project learning agenda and supports Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Assistants assigned to project-supported regions to implement project MEL activities. The MEL Officer coordinates collection, analysis, and reporting of key performance indicators (KPIs) required by Jhpiego, MOH, USAID and PEPFAR, assures data integrity and quality, supports MEAs to ensure VMMC data reported to the project are verified and discrepancies resolved, and data are entered in MOH and PEPFAR databases within stipulated timelines. The MEL Officer champions data literacy, dissemination and decision-making within the project team and facilitates data driven collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) practice based on the USAID CLA framework. The MEL Officer may be assigned to represent the project in national and donor MEL forumss.

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

Position supervised:              Assistants Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)

Location:                                 Any of Project Region (Njombe, Iringa, Singida, Tabora, or Morogoro Regions)

Required Positions:                2

This position will be closed on October 10. 2024

• Update and maintain a robust, responsive internal VMMC database to meet Jhpiego data collection, analysis and KPI reporting requirements.
• Support data reporting using the national District Health Information System version 2 (DHIS2), PEPFAR Data for Accountability, Transparency and Impact Monitoring (DATIM) and the Unified Community System (UCS).
• Guide and review implementation of routine data quality assurance activities as part of regular monitoring of service delivery to ensure integrity.
• Promote innovations in data generation, reporting, dissemination and utilization across the project, at regional and national level to support CLA practice.
• Conduct data analysis and trend projections of program implementation and promote data for decision-making during internal and external project review meetings.
• Contribute to project progress reports, presentations, abstracts, articles, stories and publications through data collection, analysis and visualization.
• Support data collection, analysis and visualization during development, piloting and scaling up of innovative strategies to enhance adaptive learning.
• Contribute to access and dissemination of real time data to facilitate troubleshooting in the team, identify barriers in a timely fashion and enhance data for decision-making including data linking performance and expenditure for tracking through PowerBI.
• Represent the project in key national and donor meetings to share MEL lessons, implications and recommendations to influence best practice and advocacy.
• Perform other duties assigned from time-to-time by your supervisor.

• Degree or equivalent experience in information or data science, biostatistics, health informatics, digital health, MEL, research, action learning or evidence-based practice.
• At least 5 years’ experience implementing monitoring, evaluation, research and data analysis activities, particularly in HIV prevention. Experience with VMMC is desirable.
• Experience managing others with 2-3 years as a supervisor is an advantage.
• Experience using DHIS2 and DATIM databases. Knowledge of other data management, analysis and visualization applications and business intelligence tools such as Microsoft PowerBi desirable.
• Field oriented and comfortable using data with RHMTs and CHMTs and motivating colleagues and partners to embrace data-driven 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