Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist

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RTI International is seeking a ‘Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist’for the Health for Life (H4L) Project. H4L is a five-year (2012-2017) project financed by USAID. The H4L project builds on accomplishments gained from USAID’s health sector investment to date with a greater focus on health systems strengthening and measuring sustainable changes in systems performance. The primary goal of H4L is to strengthen the Government of Nepal’s capacity to plan, manage and deliver high-quality and equitable family planning, maternal, newborn, and child health services. H4L addresses key health system constraints: local health systems governance; data for decision making and evidence-based policy development; capacity development of service providers at grassroots; quality improvement systems, and knowledge and behavior change. Gender equality and social inclusion is an important crosscutting focus of the project. H4L works in partnership with the Government of Nepal/ Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP). The Project covers 14 districts in the Mid-Western (12) and Western (2) Development Regions.The position will be based in H4L’s Regional Office in Nepalgunj and s/he will work under day-to-day oversight fromH4L’s Regional Manager and technical supervision from H4L’s Strategic Information/Research Advisor (SIRA) in Kathmandu.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manages project M&E activities at Regional Office and provides support to district teams
• Ensures the implementation of standardized reporting, performance monitoring, and evaluation within the office and among partners
• Ensures collection and reporting on indicators at project implementation level required by USAID in consultation with SIRA
• Monitors progress toward achieving project goals against yearly targets and recommends possible ways forward to reduce gaps identified in consultation and collaboration with Regional Team
• Ensures successful implementation of the Project Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP)
• Maintains database of project data on training and other inputs, beneficiaries and project outcomes. Ensures the management of data for geo-enabled analysis where data have geographic identifiers. Extracts and maintains PMP-related information from HMIS on regular basis
• Analyzes data, prepares reports and shares with H4L Regional and Kathmandu Teams and relevant counterparts. Provides timely support and feedback to district-based staff on M&E and reporting requirements
• Ensures implementation of activities related to H4L’s objective 2: support development and implementation of national evidence-based policy, andshares with H4L Regional and Kathmandu Teams and relevant counterparts
• Takes lead in reviewing monthly reports submitted by districts, identifies gaps and provides support for improvement in coordination with relevant stakeholders
• Carries out routine Data Quality Assessments of the PMP indicators, in consultation with SIRA
• Ensures GESI integration in all M&E activities, particularly in designing tools, data collection, analysis, presentation and reporting
• Coordinates and represents regional-level M&E networks and maintainsworking relationship with the Regional Health Directorate of Mid-Western and Western Regions.   

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Master’s degree in Public Health, International Health, Health Sciences, social sciences or related field and a minimum of three years of professional experience in the area of M&E, including HMIS, or a Bachelor’s degree in Public Health and at least 6 years of professional experience in M&Eincluding HMIS is required
• Understanding of Nepal Health Sector Program II (2010-2015), MoHP's FP/MNCH goal, objectives, strategies and concurrent issues are essential. Skill in developing database in MS Access or other programs is preferred
• Experience indesigning project M&E plans,preferably in FP/MNCH
• Skill in using statistical packages, such as SPSS or STATA. Experience in creating templates in spreadsheets and databases, analyzing data, and database management
• Familiar with Data Quality Assessment mechanism for projects
• Must be fluent in Nepali with strong oral and written communication skills in English (professional level required)
• Strong oral presentation and report writing skills
• Strong organizational, interpersonal and management skills, and an excellent team player
• Ability to develop effective working relationships with counterparts at all levels, local organizations, private sector, and other program partners
• MS Office and word processing and desktop publishing applications skills
• Willingness to travel about 40% of time in the project area.

To Apply:

Qualified and interested applicants should submit a cover letter specifying how his/her qualifications and skills meet the requirements of this position along with an updated resume with contact information to Operations Manager, Health for Life (H4L), P.O. Box: 3172, Lalitpur, Nepal or email:marora@np-h4l.rti.org with ‘Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist’ in the subject line.  Deadline is 30 April 2015; however, applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

Only short listed applicants will be contacted. Telephone inquiry will not be entertained.