Technical Advisor: Monitoring and Evaluation

SUMMARY:
Our client is looking for a Technical Advisor M&E to lead the company’s data collection efforts by providing guidance and tools to ensure that quality data are collected and reported in an efficient and effective manner.

POSITION INFO:

POSITION: TECHNICAL ADVISOR: MONITORING & EVALUATION (M&E)

AREA:  SEDIBENG

CTC: R 65,000.00

START DATE: A.S.A.P.

EE/AA: ALL

The Advisor will guide and mentor the company’s M&E staff and liaise with DoH counterparts to improve information management oversight, driving continuous quality improvement within data management for reporting.

The Technical Advisor M&E will provide technical guidance on the design, development and implementation of the company’s M&E plan, build capacity at all program levels to develop, manage and operationalize M&E systems and plans that are aligned to program strategy, to allow for quality reporting and dissemination. The Technical Advisor M&E will provide guidance and tools to ensure high quality and accurate data are collected for analysis and reporting purposes; assist in monitoring and reporting against The company’s projects’ performance indicators, key outputs and results; develop methods and milestones to monitor the project’s progress towards its goals, and; contribute to program strategy to ensure that activities and assignments are carried out as planned and the program objectives are being achieved.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• A Master’s degree in management, monitoring and evaluation, analytics or relevant qualification in field is required
• Minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible work experience in designing, establishing, and managing monitoring and evaluation systems, ensuring data quality, and managing data-intensive, performance-based programmes, preferably large-scale PEPFAR-funded programmes
• Minimum of six years’ experience focused on operationalizing performance indicators and preferably, working within/extracting data from DATIM, TIER.Net, PHCIS, etc.
• Experience in leading and motivating a technical team composed of several interdisciplinary technical experts, and to be adept at managing competing deadlines and priorities
• Ability to work across business units and capture and disseminate lessons learned to ensure the continual improvement of data collection processes and outputs
• Ability to portray complex data sets in easy-to-understand formats including visualizations
• Working knowledge of South Africa’s health information systems and monitoring and evaluation processes as they relate to data collection for performance-based reporting on the NSP
• Well-organized with an ability to handle a large workload, deliver on short deadlines and work independently.
• Excellent written and communication skills in English

DUTIES INCLUDE

Quality Data Collection and Tools

• Define data collection methods and sources for each program indicator.
• Define a data collection schedule in accordance with program management need.
• Ensure that data flow and internal reporting requirements are defined, and clear guidelines, SOPs and other tools are in place for data collection, aggregation and reporting.
• Standardize paper tools, electronic systems (DoH & Program) and SOPs to ensure they are harmonized across all sites for data collection, processing and analysis.
• Ensure data sources collect the required information to the agreed minimum quality standards.

Data Quality Assurance

• Ensure appropriate data quality assurance systems, measures and tools are in place and are monitored at all levels.
• Identify shortcomings in the processes and remedy these by developing protocols to ensure regular, accurate data collection and reporting and continually improve them for efficiency.

Reporting

• Monitor adherence to reporting timelines as well as quality of data submitted.
• Work closely with the Public Health and Data /Reporting Teams to ensure that all program data are reported according to the required quality standards and timelines

Capacity Building

• Build capacity and provide supportive supervision for The company’s and DoH M&E staff on data collection and management, reporting processes, systematic use of defined tools and M&E.
• Develop training curricula and provide training for M&E staff
• Develop tools that support data use within programs.
• Build capacity of the programme teams to use data in a strategic manner to inform programmed decision making.
• Report regularly to senior management on data collection and quality, adherence to standards and timelines, and on reports, processes and systems.
• Manage and supervise a support team.

Mentor Programme M&E teams

• Support M&E teams to set performance objectives and provide mentoring and coaching.
• Hold regular meetings with the M&E managers to ensure alignment across the programme.
• Creating a cohesive team environment through fostering open communication and providing constructive feedback.
• Conduct visits to field sites to provide training, technical assistance, and support, as well as to ensure that M&E tools are understood and being implemented effectively.
• Identify professional development opportunities for M&E staff focusing on knowledge and skills related to monitoring, evaluation and learning
• Supervise any team of technical experts and/or consultants when on board

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