Senior M&E, Senior Data use Advisor at Palladium International

Job description

Project Overview And Role

S/he will be responsible for supporting the M&E output area by developing, implementing, and monitoring the data use strategy. S/he will support the implementation and monitoring the Data Demand and Use (DDU) strategy and guiding the DDU assessments and interventions. S/he will ensure DDU support of County Health Management Teams (CHMTs) and M&E Technical Working Groups (TWGs), and strengthen/develop mechanisms for county accountability.

Responsibilities

• Develop and update project M&E Plan, including identifying appropriate indicators and design of data collection system for the project to collect and report on data to measure performance and achievement of project objectives
• Provide technical assistance to promote monitoring and evaluation strategies to facilitate data usage and ownership in a manner that enhances the program and promotes sustainability
• Increase capacity of the facility staff, HRIOs for the identification of data needs and the collection, analysis and usage for informed decision making
• Design and conduct program evaluations in line with PEPFAR evaluation standards of practice to assess program impact and effectiveness
• Develop and oversee implementation of the project?s strategies for increasing data demand and use for decision-making in HIV care and treatment
• Coordinate Stakeholders in M&E fields to identify and respond to their requirements for Health information products.
• Lead the Development of information products on HIS platforms for monitoring 90-90-90 progress at facillity, service delivery levels, county and National levels.
• Increase health facility demand for quality information, methods and tools, and facilitation of information use for decision making
• Oversee regular data quality procedures to ensure that data reported by the facilities meet accepatable and defined standards of data quality; and report the findings of the data quality procedures
• Provide technical assistance to local implementing partners? to develop systems for the continual collection, analysis, and presentation of data, and build the capacity of these partners to interpret and report on their progress and achievements.
• Stay abreast of current literature relevant to HIV care and treatment and disseminate information through abstracts and manuscripts in conferences and peer reviewed journals
• Conduct trainings to HRIOs, CHRIOs and other stakeholders on data demand and information use

Requirements

• Master?s degree in public health, epidemiology, statistics, mathematics, demography, social sciences, or health-related field.
• Minimum of five years? experience working with public health programs, preferably in health systems strengthening, monitoring and evaluation is required.
• Experience working with HIV/AIDS programs or related health service programs is required.
• Must have knowledge of the Kenyan HIV/AIDS context, especially the Kenya AIDS Strategic Framework (KASF) and the UNAIDS goals
• Must have familiarity with public health and HIV/AIDS programming and data collection, analysis and presentation.
• Must have knowledge of monitoring and surveillance systems and knowledge of current MER tools and systems in resource limited and data poor environments.
• Must have strong writing skills knowledge of developing abstracts and mansucripts
• Must have strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Knowledge statistical analysis packages such SAS, Epi-Info, Stata and data visualization techniques is desirable
• Must have proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Hands-on Knowledge of Tableau will be an added advantage