Monitoring and Evaluation Director in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Description

For over 30 years, in more than 90 countries, IntraHealth International has empowered health workers to better serve communities in need. IntraHealth fosters local solutions to health care challenges by improving health worker performance, strengthening health systems, harnessing technology, and leveraging partnerships.

In collaboration with governments, nongovernmental organizations, and private-sector organizations around the world, IntraHealth champions the needs and contributions of health workers—from doctors and nurses to community health workers to health facility managers—and works to ensure they have the tools, supplies, information, training, and support they need to provide communities they serve with the best possible opportunity for health and well-being.IntraHealth International is seeking a Monitoring and Evaluation to be based in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.The Monitoring and Evaluation Director is charged with the monitoring and evaluation of the project as a whole, providing technical leadership in monitoring and evaluation, results reporting, and knowledge management, as well as assuring innovation and efficacy in project interventions.

• Provide strategic and technical leadership to the project in monitoring and evaluation, results reporting, and knowledge management.
• Lead the development and implementation of the project's annual performance monitoring and evaluation plan and the M&E budget.
• Review and approve all country monitoring plans and ensure that they fit within the overall project PMP.
• Oversee the collection of information and the documentation of progress towards results, following guidance provided by the donor and the M&E Department in Chapel Hill.
• Conduct country site visits to support data collection/reporting and validate program data.
• Support the process of developing and presenting quarterly and annual project progress reports to the donor.
• Lead in the dissemination and utilization of project results to inform project operations and share lessons learned with a global audience.
• Serve as supervisor for results and knowledge management team members, setting performance expectations and conducting performance reviews.
• Assess research needs and opportunities and design and implement field operations research.
• Develop a repository of tools, guidelines and reference documents for M&E that may be used by, and are easily accessible to, staff globally.
• Work with other project staff to ensure that they understand their responsibilities with respect to M&E and have the needed technical knowledge in M&E.

Requirements

• PhD preferred or other advanced degree in public health, epidemiology, demography, biostatistics, educational testing and measurement, statistics or other closely related fields.
• Eight or more years successful experience in designing and implementing health and/or education program evaluation and applied research in developing country setting.
• Five or more years' experience leading and managing a professional staff.
• Experience with USAID or USAID contractor preferred.
• Ability to develop project work plans and budgets.
• Demonstrated experience in research and evaluation designs and methods.
• Record of publishing in peer-reviewed journals and other venues preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time, sometimes on short notice.

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