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Department :
Technical
Reports To : MCC
Project Manage
Location: Mbale with up frequent travel to project
sites in Tororo District and occasional travel to Kampala.
Direct Reports :
None
Country and Project
Background
Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organizations
dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases
in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities,
government and non-government agencies, academic
institutions, and local and international organisations, to
ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing
technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities
for evidencebased decision-making and strategic planning. The organisation
works to
improve not only the health of the individual, but also the
capacity of national health systems, which helps relieve poverty and support
improved economic prosperity.
Malaria Control
Culture Project Background:
Malaria Consortium Uganda was recently awarded funding by
Comic Relief to implement the Malaria Control Culture project in Tororo
District in Eastern Uganda. The project will run for three years (August 2013-
July 2016). In order to address the malaria burden in Tororo District, Malaria
Consortium proposes following on the heels of a nationwide net distribution
campaign expected to attain universal coverage of LLIN by implementing two
methods of continuous net distribution (ANC services at health facilities, and
primary schools); a strong communications campaign to strengthen healthy behaviours
around malaria prevention and treatment (including demand for and use of LLINs)
and treatment seeking behaviour; and to strengthen diagnosis of malaria and the
management of alternative causes of fever at health facilities. This is
expected to foster a ‘culture of malaria control’ at community and health
facility levels throughout Tororo District, thereby leading to a decrease in
malaria morbidity and mortality, as well as malaria transmission
Job Purpose:
The M&E Officer is responsible for developing the
overall M&E framework and implementation of related activities within the
project. The M&E Officer will be expected to work with the MCC project team
and partners to provide timely and relevant information on the project’s
progress to stakeholders.
The position holder will coordinate, organise and supervise
data collection, both routine and assessments (quantitative and qualitative),
which will be used to monitor and evaluate project activities, outcomes and
impact in line with the project objectives. The position holder will be
expected to collaborate, coordinate and work closely with all involved in
M&E design and implementation including the Uganda Country Office M&E
Specialist, Tororo District leadership and external stakeholders/partners.
S/he will also provide on-going support and technical
assistance to the Tororo District Leadership (health and education) and other
partners, as related to the Malaria Control Culture project scope, and in
accordance with its approach to understanding and influencing positive change
in health.
Key Accountabilities:
Technical
contributions
• Lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive
monitoring and evaluation plan to ensure the achievement of project targets and
to inform quality control of project activities.
Data/information
management:
• Liaise with the respective national and sub-national
stakeholders tonensure their involvement in project M&E activities and the
effective flow of data and information.
• Facilitate the collection of appropriate health information
from relevant data sources (health facilities, schools, district offices,
retail sellers of long lasting insecticide treated nets).
• Be responsible for the data assembly, management, analysis
and reporting of surveys and routine monitoring activities.
• Design and manage the databases for all monitoring and
evaluation activities in relation to this project. Work with the M&E
Specialist to ensure that these are aligned with other Malaria Consortium
information systems.
• Provide the Project Manager, Technical Programme
Coordinator/ Deputy Country Director and Country Director with any data needed
for management decisions.
Communications and
reporting:
• Prepare consolidated progress reports, reports on M&E
findings for project management; guide the regular sharing of the outputs of
M&E findings with project staff, implementing partners and primary
stakeholders.
Representation and
documentation
• Participate in relevant meetings at national and
sub-national levels and where possible present results and experiences of the
project.
• Provide effective support to all Comic Relief visits
relating to both project planning, delivery and review, and for the purposes of
Comic Relief fundraising and marketing.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential:
• Degree / Postgraduate degree in M&E, Statistics,
Public Health, or related discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of direct work experience in M&E
• Experience with performance monitoring and evaluation for
international or national development projects, including developing
performance indicators, data collection and analysis.
• Experience in the design and implementation of data
collection and data management systems
• Experience in translating data into accessible reports for
diverse audiences
• Experience conducting large scale quantitative surveys
• Excellent knowledge in the use of data management and
analysis software such as Excel, Access, EpiData, STATA, including experience
designing data entry screens, cleaning data, and conducting data analysis.
Desirable :
• Experience in communicable disease control/malaria control
• Experience in engaging and supporting others to contribute
to M&E work
• Familiarity with the Ugandan health system
• Experience in writing project reports
• Experience conducting qualitative data collection and analysis
ANY OTHER KEY
INFORMATION
The position is based in Mbale with up frequent travel to
project sites in
Tororo District and occasional travel to Kampala.
Candidates who fully meet the above requirements should
submit a detailed CV, a covering letter explaining how and why you are suited
to the role, and the contact details of three referees quoting the reference
number MC UG/TEC 14/08/008
not later than 7 June 2013.
Note: A detailed
Job Description/Profile of the position can be availed upon
electronic request to the above email.
Vacancy Number :
MC UG/TEC 21/11/005
