Monitoring and Evaluation Lead at The Aurum Institute

The role will report directly to the Chief of Party and indirectly to Regional Director Strategic Information.

Role Responsibilities:

• Provide provincial technical leadership and support for all monitoring and evaluation management activities.
• Ensure the integration of M&E activities into all project components
• Collect, report, and analyze information on project activities.
• Ensure timely and complete reporting from all partners in accordance with approved reporting formats, especially supported health facilities and districts reporting into the national health database and reporting into USAID
• Monitor and evaluate progress towards annual work plans and expected outputs, including selecting and monitoring progress in meeting programmatic performance indicators
• Assist the COP in the preparation of work plans/selection of indicators and annual implementation plans with a view towards the project’s MEL requirements.
• Coordinate the preparation of all quarterly and annual project reports, ad-hoc technical reports and success stories for· USAID funding in line with the required formats
• Collect data for annual MEL plans and use those data to in improve project performance
• Adapt and implement tools and techniques to improve the quality and use of data for decision making.
• Compile information on lessons learned and expertise within and outside the project.
• Provide support to institutional and human capacity building activities at the provincial and local levels for project activities towards strengthening Health Management Information systems.
• Based on the afore-mentioned capacity building plan, conduct monthly seminars, hands on training, mentoring, and coaching for project staff including partners
• Carry out any such duties as may be assigned by the Chief of Party.

Requirements

Role Education & Experience Requirements:

• A Master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, monitoring & evaluation, demography, biostatistics, statistics, analytics or a related field is required.
• Minimum of 8 years of work experience in designing, establishing, and managing monitoring and evaluation systems, ensuring data quality, and managing data-intensive, performance-based programs, preferably of a program funded by USAID
• Demonstrated leadership experience in managing a strategic information technical team.
• Demonstrated experience to identify needs for and design and implement evaluations and

assessments to further program performance

• Demonstrated ability to portray complex data sets in easy-to-understand formats including
• Visualisations
• Demonstrated working knowledge of South Africa health information systems and monitoring
• and evaluation processes as they relate to data collection for performance-based reporting on the NSP
• Demonstrated knowledge and working experience in the use of mapping and other similar tools(including computer software programs) to target program interventions and resources
• Experience in leading and managing a technical team composed of several technical experts and fostering teamwork
• Demonstrated written, presentation and communication skills in English.

Please note this position is contingent upon award to org