Recruitment Description/ Key Accountabilities

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Provide in-country technical leadership and support for all monitoring and evaluation and knowledge management activities.
• Ensure the integration of MEL activities into all project components.
• Collect, report, and analyse information on project activities.
• Ensure timely and complete reporting from in-partners in accordance with approved reporting formats, especially supported health facilities and districts reporting into the national health databases.
• Monitor and evaluate progress towards annual work plans and expected outputs, including selecting and monitoring progress in meeting key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Assist the COP in the preparation of work plans/selection of indicators and annual implementation plans with a view towards the project’s MEL requirements.
• Coordinate the preparation of all quarterly and annual project reports, inception report, ad-hoc technical reports, and success stories for USAID funding in line with the required formats.
• Collect data for annual MEL plans and use those data to improve project performance.
• Adapt and implement tools and techniques to improve the quality and use of data for decision making.
• Compile information on lessons learned and expertise within and outside the project.
• Assist the Chief of Party with decision-making on resource allocation based on project priorities and performance.
• Participate in appropriate technical meetings and conferences on behalf of the project.
• Provide support to institutional and human capacity building activities at the regional and local levels for project activities towards strengthening health management information systems.
• Develop a detailed plan to build technical and managerial capacity of project staff.
• Based on the aforementioned capacity building plan, conduct monthly seminars, hands-on training, mentoring, and coaching for project staff.
• Carry out any such duties as may be assigned by the Chief of Party.

Required Experience

• Master’s degree or higher in public health, program evaluation, statistics, social sciences, or another relevant field.
• At least 5 years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of health technical assistance, service delivery, or other international development programs with progressively increasing level of responsibility.
• Experience working with Ministry of Health at national, provincial, and district levels, particularly on capacity building in monitoring and evaluation and data use for decision making.
• Knowledge of and experience with key maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition indicators and Government of Mozambique, US Government, and statistical data systems (e.g., DHIS2, DATIM, STATA, SPSS, use of GIS, etc.).
• Excellent ability to articulate oral and written technical information clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences and demonstrated track record of producing high quality, well-written deliverables in a timely fashion.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Portuguese.
• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite.

Desired Experience:

• Previous experience supporting MEL on health technical assistance and/or service delivery programs in Mozambique.
• Demonstrated knowledge of host country management information systems; proven leadership to support the strengthening of M&E systems within a host country’s Ministry of Health or other partner organizations to improve the availability and use of data for decision making.
• Experience conducting implementation research and developing systems for translating lessons learned into practice; familiarity with CLA approaches.
• Data visualization skills.

Must have legal authorization to work in Mozambique.

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