Senior Project Officer – Monitoring and Evaluation at MDH

Job Position Senior Project Officer – Monitoring and Evaluation at Management and Development for Health (MDH)

Management and Development for Health (MDH) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization whose primary aim is to contribute to address public health priorities of the people of Tanzania and the world at large. These priorities include: communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Reproductive, Maternal, New-born and Child health (RMNCH); Nutrition; Non-Communicable Diseases of public health significance; as well as Health System Strengthening. MDH strongly believes in and works in partnership with various local and global institutions, Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC); President’s Office Regional Authorities and Local Government (PORALG); donor agencies; academic and non-academic institutions; implementing partners; civil society, community-based and faith-based organizations and others. All job positions require significant field work and travel up to 80% of the time. MDH seeks to recruit qualified individuals to fill vacancies below

POSITION TITLE:          Senior Project Officer – Monitoring and Evaluation
LOCATION:                    Dar es Salaam
REPORTS TO:                Senior M & E Manager 
Position Summary:  The M&E Officer is a self-motivated individual who will be responsible for the monitoring and ensuring high quality and timely achievements of project targets and goals. He/She will be expected to assist Project Managers in ensuring project maintains its strategic vision and that its activities result in the achievement of its intended outputs in a cost effective and timely manner.  S/he will work in close collaboration with the project team members in receiving and analyzing program data and monitor performance as well as perform secondary data analysis to identify best performing strategies to inform program team and stakeholders for project improvement.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1.     Provide overall leadership in the statistical analysis of data including data management.
2.     Provide coordination of project monitoring and reporting activities.
3.     Build capacity of project staff to set a functional groundwork for efficient data collection, compilation and timely reporting at site level.
4.     Ensure completeness and comprehensiveness of project routine reports to respond to stakeholders.
5.     Perform statistical analysis of data collected from the facilities and assess the progress in achievements of project targets.
6.     Develop and implement monitoring and evaluation framework of the project including indicator mapping.
7.     Develop and implement SOP for how data for each indicator are to be collected, managed, verified and used at each level of the health information system.
8.     Develop and implement a capacity building plan for other technical staff to improve their analysis skills.
9.     Participate in developing and implementation of data quality assurance mechanisms.
10.  Develop and facilitate implementation of M&E reporting calendar and coordinate reporting activities during reporting period.
11.  Prepare qualitative quarterly, semiannual and annual progress reports for MoHCDGEC, partners and donor.
12.  Participate in secondary analysis of data and writing conference abstracts and manuscripts for publications and other program use.
13.  Carry out any other responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.
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Requirements: Education, Work experience and Skills:
1.     A Degree in Medical Science with the Master’s degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics or other M&E related fields.
2.     A minimum of 3 years’ experience in working at M&E and statistical data analysis position especially in HIV care and Treatment settings.
3.     Strong writing skills is an advantage.
4.     Ability of using either of  STATA/ SAS/ R analytical software for data analysis.
5.     Additional training in public health will be an added advantage.
6.     Previous experience in developing a project including conceptualizing and technical writing.
7.     Previous experience in project/ programme planning, designing, implementation and M&E.
8.     Ability to work both as individual and as a team with minimum supervision.

HOW TO APPLY: Interested candidates for any of the above positions should submit an application letter, a detailed copy of their CV, names and contact information (email addresses and telephone numbers) of three work related referees. The candidate MUST clearly indicate the Title of the position applied for (as it appears in the advertisement) on the heading of the email.  Applications should be submitted to the Human Resource Director through email hr@mdh.or.tz by 10th October 2021.  MDH DO NOT have any agents and DO NOT charge any fees to the interested candidates.  Kindly note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.