MEL Specialist, USAID's Afya Uwazi

Job Description

AIR’s International Development Division (IDD) is currently seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Specialist for the Afya Uwazi, USAID Health Supply Chain Third Party Monitoring (TPM) Activity.

Afya Uwazi is a USAID-funded, third-party monitoring mechanism focused on strengthening transparency and accountability in the health sector. It does so by gathering primary data from health facilities and other sites, analyzing secondary data from other sources, tracking key performance indicators, and estimating relevant risks.

This position will be located in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenyan nationals and residents are strongly encouraged to apply. This is a local hire position.

The MEL Specialist is a key personnel position and a core member of the Afya Uwazi senior management team. Working with other senior staff, the MEL Specialist is responsible for providing a strategic vision for design, refinement, development and implementation of all monitoring, evaluation and learning activities in the project. In this role, s/he provides technical oversight and related consultative services of broad scope and complexity across all aspects of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) and collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) for third-party monitoring in the health sector.

The MEL Specialist will take on the following areas of work:

• Plan and coordinate implementation under the oversight of COP and in coordination with other senior managers.
• Ensure that project KPIs are relevant to overall goals, and update data regularly.
• Design and develop data collection tools and work with the software team to integrate tools into a KoBo-based electronic data collection platform.
• Prepare data presentations and advise on data visualizations for the online dashboard.
• Contribute strongly to analysis and writing of reports and other presentations, based on data and findings.
• Train part-time data collection consultants and other relevant stakeholders on M&E data collection and reporting protocols, data quality and ethical treatment of respondents.
• Coordinate and facilitate periodic learning activities, including Pause and Reflect sessions, with internal staff, partners, USAID personnel and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to reports on findings, conclusions and recommendations on a regular basis, including monthly and annual reports, technical reports and other.
• Provide other MEL technical advice and leadership as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in M&E, public health, statistics, informatics, mathematics, international development or another relevant field (advanced degree preferred);
• Prior M&E experience on USAID projects;
• USAID CLA experience is preferred and will be given priority;
• At least seven (7) years of senior M&E experience on health projects in Kenya with a similar scope and complexity;
• Prior experience assessing in third-party monitoring, supply chain metrics, and/or KoBo-based coding is strongly preferred.

Kenyan nationals and residents are strongly encouraged to apply. This is a local hire position.

Disclosures:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination based on age, race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

AIR adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

About the Organization

About AIR:

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