The Project Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor will work with the Project M&E team for the successful monitoring and evaluation of community-facility health services for a set geographic area of the USAID-funded Afya Jijini project. Afya Jijini’s ultimate aim is to improve access and uptake of quality health services in Nairobi for the most pressing health issues, including among the most vulnerable and at-risk. The project seeks specifically to increase access and use of quality HIV; family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH); maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH); water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), and nutrition services. Based in Nairobi with frequent travel to informal settlements and health facilities in the county, s/he will work with the Project Level M&E Team comprising of the DM&E,M&EA, cluster Level M&EO and M&E Assistants (attached to the UHAI Team) – to develop an effective M&E system for project management and reporting. Working in the defined area, the Project M&E Advisor will provide support to the project advisors and team leads; the sub-county health managers; the health facilities and their catchment communities, CBOs and other stakeholders to capture data and use it to generate information for decision making including DDIU to facilitate program improvement. The Project M&E Advisor will also help plan and implement capacity strengthening approaches at the sub-county and facility level, including trainings and mentorship models to strengthen M&E for health services. .
Duties and Responsibilities
The overall responsibility is to work with the Project M&E Director to ensure the Afya Jijini project M&E goals are achieved. These includes participating in all internal and external M&E management meeting and assisting in developing and reviewing M&E documents and reports.
Specifically the Project M&E Advisor will perform the following specific roles aligned to the project M&E framework and life cycle.
Participate in the project design activities including the development of project work plan and M&E Plan; designing an M&E systems and tools, the overall framework of the monitoring and evaluation activities; the design and the conduct of Evaluations and assessments.
Contribute to the development of the field implementation plans, ensuring alignment with overall Afya Jijini M&E strategy, agreement on program indicators and inclusion of monitoring and evaluation activities in the work plan
Provide technical assistance to build or strengthening partner and stakeholder capacity for M&E including data management
Provide Support supervision of the M&E staff; by providing guidance and technical support to the UHAI and sub-county teams
Support the conduct of routine data audits at various level for data quality improvement
Work with the M&E officers supporting clusters in establishing an effective system for assessing the validity of monitoring and evaluation data through review of activities/installations, completed monitoring forms/databases, and a review of aggregate level statistics reported
Participate in reviewing M&E findings and identifying and disseminating best practices to stakeholders to facilitate evidence-based planning, learning and informed decision-making
Oversee and execute the monitoring and evaluation activities included in the Field Implementation Plan with particular focus on results and impacts as well as in lesson learning
Coordinate the preparation of all monitoring and evaluation reports; guide staff and executing partners in preparing their progress reports in accordance with approved reporting formats and ensure their timely submission
Prepare consolidated progress reports for the DM&E including identification of problems, causes of potential bottlenecks in implementation, and providing specific recommendations
Undertake regular visits to the fields to support implementation of monitoring and evaluation, check the quality of data produced, and to identify where adaptations might be needed
Support the project program advisors to access performance information for their own planning and use to improve program performance
Professional Knowledge and Experience
Should have at least a Bachelor’s degree in Health Records and information, Medical statistics, Epidemiology/public Health, Health information/Health Systems management or Information Technology with experience in working with health programs required. Advanced degree will be an added advantage
At least ten years work experience in planning processes, performance management, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building in large governmental or international organization.
Considerable knowledge of principles, techniques and methodologies used in the monitoring and evaluation of programmes and projects including quantitative, qualitative and participatory approaches and socio-economic research.
Considerable knowledge of Logic Models/Results Chains and results based planning.
Knowledge of management principles and practices.
Knowledge of government policies, procedures, rules and regulations.
Excellent command of spoken and written English
Key Technical Skills and Knowledge
A solid understanding of the management of cross cutting issues, with a focus on participatory processes, integrated result based management and gender issues;
Supportive attitude towards processes of strengthening staff capacity;
Leadership qualities, personnel and team management including mediation and conflict resolution;
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment; Strong organizational skills;
Excellent communication, team building and training skills with the ability to establish and maintain effective working relations in and outside the Agency; ability to work effectively in multi-cultural environment;
Ability to undertake regular field visits and interact with different stakeholders
Specific Deliverables/ Achievements
Performance monitoring plans and work plans to guide Afya Jijini M&E activities
Improved use of the National Health information Systems, especially the DHIS2 by the 9 sub-counties
Timely reporting of service data project management team
DQA reports and Action plans implemented
