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• Manage the development and implementation of the Performance
  Monitoring Plan (PMP) to capture project performance and results,
  including routine service delivery data reporting, baseline and endline
  assessments, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations
• Develop and oversee data flow pattern for the program that will
  ensure timely data collection and reporting
• Lead results reporting to USAID by providing written documentation
  on M&E activities and indicator results for progress and annual
  reports, as appropriate.
• Provide leadership and direction on M&E to ensure the program
  achieves its goals and corresponding objectives and targets
• Ensure high-quality implementation, consistent with Kenya national
  monitoring and evaluation guidelines, protocols, information and reporting
  systems
• Lead efforts to monitor and evaluate project interventions, document
  results and provide feedback to stakeholders to guide decision-making
• Lead efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and
  monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate
  follow-up and recordkeeping
• Conduct targeted evaluations and operations research, including
  design, data collection, management and analysis
• Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures,
  including routine data quality audits
• Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with other USAID
  projects and represent M&E activities in public and professional
  circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations
• Ensure relevant data is entered into JADE, Jhpiego’s
  organization-wide performance management system designed to capture,
  analyze, and disseminate project data
• Promote and support the dissemination of project information among
  the project team
• Work closely with project and financial staff to prepare and track
  progress of project and activity budgets
• Supervise a team of M&E professionals
• Coordinate all M&E capacity-building activities with project
  staff, implementing partners and facility staff

• The ideal candidate for the Jhpiego Monitoring and Evaluation
  Specialist job placement must hold a Master’s degree in public health,
  demography, statistics, mathematics or related field or equivalent
  experience
• Minimum seven years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating
  complex, large, multi-year international health sector development
  programs (approximately $10M per year)
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies,
  operations research, health management information systems, reporting,
  data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation and setting up
  and managing M&E systems that track performance as per the objectives
• Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning
  skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple
  host-country counterparts in both the public and NGO sectors
• M&E experience in RMNCAH/FP
• Firm command of the M&E issues with respect to improvements in
  quality health service and support programs
• Familiarity with Uganda health management information system and
  other national M&E systems
• Experience and understanding of the USAID and Kenyan MOH RMNCAH/FP
  frameworks and reporting 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
• Experience hiring and supervising personnel and ensuring they
  acquire the necessary training and skills to meet evolving program needs
• Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and
  maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID,
  host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders
  such as NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector
• Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking,
  organizational, team-building, and representational skills
• Expertise in research to practice—identifying and adapting best
  practices to specific project contexts
• Excellent skills in facilitation, team building, and coordination
• Excellent verbal, written interpersonal and presentation skills in
  English and Swahili
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in regional
  and national programs and technical staff
• Proficiency in word processing and Microsoft Office
• Ability to travel nationally and 40 % of time

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