MEAL Tool development and data management

• Develop, implement, and assess monitoring frameworks for all WVSS partnerships and health projects, as well as for funding proposals.
• Contribute to the development of annual work plans to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities
• Maintain existing indicator tracking tools; develop additional databases and tracking tools as needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of project interventions.
• Analyze data for accuracy, flag validation or quality issues, and contribute to system fixes.
• Support the development, design, and writing of proposals and concept notes for related programming information management and reporting.
• Develop and implement a robust monitoring and evaluation system that will ensure tracking of project/ program results at different levels (outputs, outcomes and impact).
• Develop/ Adopt an integrated database of all county health projects/ program and ensure accountability through regular data updates, data integrity and working in collaboration with the data processors.
• Work with program officers and managers to ensure the collection of relevant and appropriate data needed for an effective MEAL system which will be utilized in monitoring strengths, weaknesses and gaps in existing projects/ programs and services and for reporting on donor commitments.
• Overall responsibility for data quality, attained through routine data quality audits and provision of timely feedback.
• Ensure all supported facilities have registers and tools appropriate for HMIS reporting
• Follow-up for non-submitted, missing or incomplete records prior to submission of reports to the next level.
• Oversee the collection of information and dissemination of lessons learned while implementing HMIS.

Monitoring and reporting

• Provide weekly, monthly and quarterly technical reports that meet donor standards
• Develop project implementation feedback mechanisms by the community
• Provide HMIS technical assistance to supervisees, project staff
• Receive and review monthly HMIS reports submitted by the reporting facilities, and forward to the project manager after ensuring reports meet donor reporting standards.
• Produce quarterly indicator performance reports.
• Create and integrate graphics in reports and information products to help visualize data in a meaningful way
• Edit content and presentation of all reporting and deliverables before submittal to ensure superior quality and professionalism
• Coordinate responses to requests for data and information
• Contribute to developing and reporting of project reviews, assessments, surveys, and other analytic or evaluation processes and products
• Generate monthly indicator reports for tracking progress against key indicators as needed
• Conduct field visits for data validation and to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets; coordinate data collection at project sites to monitor program development and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data; capture and document lessons learned; and champion the scaling up best practices
• Review monthly progress reports from partners and ensure they have evidence to back-up and provide feedback to the respective staff.
• Timely update and share data on the 5W matrix to the cluster management system.

Assessments, surveys and evaluations

• Scale up use of mobile health (m-health) data collation technologies to enhance efficiency and overall quality of HMIS and QOC data.
• Facilitate design of “SMART” objectives, logic models, monitoring frameworks, and evaluation plans during annual work-planning process
• Lead and/or coordinate all county assessments, evaluations and performance evaluation tasks including planning and reporting on the same.
• Coordinate the review all survey reports prepared to ensure quality and accurate reporting.

Learning, Accountability and Capacity Building

• Provide relevant evidence for learning from projects.
• Share learning and provide constructive comments to colleagues in order to ensure program quality.
• Ensure Sex, Age, Disability Disaggregated Data (SADD), Accountability and Gender standards are consistently adhered in program delivery.
• Build capacity of staff through training to ensure adoption of new data monitoring tools and quality of data collected.
• Keep abreast of new approaches and tools on M&E and provide training to HelpAge staff as requested. Enable staff to monitor and evaluate their own efforts, gather relevant data and produce required progress reports.
• Ensure proper capture of HMIS and BHI data, proper documentation of best practices and regular analysis of data to inform project implementation
• Provide HMIS technical assistance to supervisees, project staff and implementing partners.
• Provide mentorship and capacity acceleration for all individuals involved in HMIS data management continuum
• Coordinate and supervise HMIS Officers, health facility staff and records assistant responsible for generation and reporting facility achievements using recommended HMIS registers and reporting tools
• Lead and coordinate strategic field support visits in collaboration with project management teams, partners and county health department, and donors
• Organize and, or participate in regular HMIS review meetings
• Collaborate with HMIS stakeholders at national, county, and lower levels including partners to provide periodic mentorship and trainings on HMIS tools.
• Take lead in quarterly project reviews for the project by providing detailed analysis of data and as well document success stories and photos for evidenced based programming.
• Support recruiting, interviewing, and training new M&E staff and/or consultants

Minimum education, training and experience requirements to qualify for the position

• Diploma in Development Studies, Agriculture or another related field.
• Minimum of 3-years’ working experience with humanitarian program in the fields of livelihoods and economic strengthening interventions.
• Excellent command of the most common methodologies to identify, assess and monitor livelihood activities, with proven record of achievements.
• Strong analysis skills (qualitative and qualitative)
• Strong cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Good understanding of complex emergencies and crisis contexts
• Goal oriented with ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and local Arabic.
• Having demonstrated organizational, interpersonal and communication skills; organized, efficient, and able to work long hours to meet deadlines.
• Willingness to work under pressure in unstable security and remote location with basic necessities a big plus.