- Provide leadership and direction on LME to ensure the project achieves its goals and corresponding objectives and targets
- Oversee the development and implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) to efficiently track, use and disseminate performance indicators and results over the life of the project, including routine service delivery data reporting, baseline and end line assessments, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations
- Supervise a team of M&E professionals, ensuring high-quality implementation of all monitoring, evaluation and learning activities
- Develop and oversee implementation of robust context-appropriate systems for data collection, quality assurance, analysis and reporting on activity outputs/outcomes and program quality
- Lead results reporting to USAID by providing written documentation on M&E activities and indicator results for progress and annual reports, as appropriate
- Ensure alignment of project systems and approaches with Ethiopian national monitoring and evaluation guidelines, protocols, information, and reporting systems
- Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with monitoring, evaluation and learning counterparts in other USAID projects national institutions, and key stakeholders, leading initiatives to learn from project data and adapt intervention strategies as appropriate
- Lead efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and recordkeeping
- Use data to contribute towards strategic decision-making and project planning with project leadership
- Support project leadership to champion holistic approaches to collaboration, learning and adapting (CLA), including design and implementation of an action-oriented project research and learning agenda, routine analysis of available data sources, and application of best practices in knowledge management
- Oversee and/or conduct targeted assessment, evaluations and operations research, ensuring compliance with Johns Hopkins University institutional and local review board policies
- Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures including routine data quality audits and that these are routinely carried out during the project lifecycle
- Represent M&E activities in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations
- Ensure relevant data is entered into Jhpiego’s organization-wide performance management system designed to capture, analyze, and disseminate project data
- Ensure project compliance with USAID monitoring, evaluation, research and open data policies
- Promote and support the dissemination of project information among the project team
- Work with project and financial staff to prepare and track progress of project and activity budgets
- Train and mentor project staff and implementing partners in monitoring and evaluation methods, tools, and systems.
- Education Qualification and Experience:
- Master’s degree in demography, sociology, biostatistics, or a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of nine (9) years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international development projects
- Monitoring and evaluation experience in a related sector, such as disaster risk management or preparedness, resilience building, capacity building, public policy, etc.
- Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methodologies, implementation research approaches, data visualization and reporting
- Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts in both the public, NGO and private sectors
- Strong technical skills, including the ability to process and analyze multiple sources of data to identify data trends and provide recommendations on project implementation and one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Excel.
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