Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, January 30 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About Us
Right to Care is at the vanguard in supporting and delivering prevention, care, and treatment services for HIV and associated diseases. We work with government and communities to find pioneering solutions to build and strengthening public healthcare.
We embrace a strong entrepreneurial culture and focuses on innovation and the use of technology to enhance services, address skills shortages, and deliver quality healthcare outcomes. Our areas of expertise include HIV and TB care and treatment, pharmacy automation, medical male circumcision, and cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment.
In 2021, Right to Care Zambia was awarded a five-year project funded by USAID through the PEPFAR mechanism. The USAID Action HIV project aims to reduce HIV mortality, morbidity and transmission by achieving the UNAIDS and PEPFAR goal of 95/95/95 HIV treatment coverage by providing comprehensive HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment maintenance services in Luapula, Northern and Muchinga provinces of Zambia. The USAID Action HIV project will work closely with and in support of the Ministry of Health.

Qualifications And Experience
Minimum Required Qualifications and Experience:
• Grade 12 Certificate
• Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Statistics or Public Health
• 3-5 years’ experience in Monitoring and Evaluation including in PEPFAR programs.
• Experience with donor programs is required.
• Experience with SmartCare required
• USAID experience a plus.
• Tertiary qualification in health, public health, social sciences, behavioural sciences, or related field
• Background in research, monitoring, and evaluation and/or other data management field
• Strong knowledge of HIV/AIDS

Desirable Qualifications and Experience:
• Master’s Degree or its International Equivalent in Statistics, Social Sciences, Public Health or Related Field, added advantage.
• 2-3 years’ experience in managing HIV/AIDS-related data, including data verification / quality assurance
• 2-3 year experience in M&E of HIV/AIDS programme
• 1 year experience in managing staff
• 1 year experience in training / facilitation
• Relevant work experience implementing monitoring systems for impact analysis
• Work experience with donor-funded projects on skills development
• Experience with innovative analysis of monitoring data
• Experience with effective use and visualization of monitoring data
• Experience with independently conducting data analysis, interpretation, and presentation of findings, including identification of possible causes for findings and can propose measures to address underlying causes
• Proven experience with writing baseline, annual, and final M&E reports to document project targets, actual accomplishments, and reasons for any deviations.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in MoH and PEPFAR reporting

Technical And Behavioral Competencies
• Confidence & Self Control
• Ethics and Integrity
• Initiative
• Professionalism
• Planning and organizing

Key Performance Areas
• Stay informed of best M&E practices.
• Participate in a minimum of one M&E training/meeting semi-annually.
• Stay informed of HIV-related MoH and PEPFAR reporting requirements.
• Develop M&E Work Plan for USAID Action HIV programme.
• Update Monthly Reporting Templates for Partners/Programmes, within 1 month of becoming aware of country or donor changes.
• Update database of all USAID Action HIV partners/programmes with required details, on quarterly basis or as required.
• Design, improve and expand data tools for use at central M&E Unit.
• Develop and implement evaluation plans for USAID Action HIV
• Manage evaluation processes, including liaising with partners, external stakeholders and service providers, creating terms of reference and evaluation guidelines
• Conduct M&E site visits to USAID Action HIV partners/ programmes.
• Provide ongoing telephonic/e-mail support, training, and technical assistance on M&E to partners/programmes, including revision/design of Data Management tools.
• Design and present M&E-related training sessions for partners/programmes.
• Facilitate access to general M&E training for partners/programmes.
• Design and conduct Data Quality Audit and follow up on implementation of audit recommendations by USAID Action HIV partners/programmes on regular basis.
• Ensure submission of Monthly Reports to USAID Action HIV partners/ programmes, within 1 month, or within PEPFAR reporting deadline for end-of-quarter months.
• Conduct Internal Verification Check of Monthly Reports of partners/ programmes, within 1 week of submission date, or within PEPFAR reporting deadlines for end-of-quarter months.
• Obtain corrections upon identification of data quality issues, within 1 week of submission of queries, or within PEPFAR reporting deadlines for end-of-quarter months.
• Design and maintain aggregate stats database
• Maintain repository (paper-based and electronic) of all Monthly Reports and collation tools.
• Compile and review monthly Program reports.
• Compile Quarterly, Semi-annual and Annual USAID Reports within deadlines (Jan, Apr, Jul, and Oct).
• Verify USAID Action HIV partners’ Quarterly, Semi-annual and Annual PEPFAR Reports prior to submission to USAID.
• Design and maintain quarterly stats overview for USAID Action HIV partners’/programme’s performance.
• Respond to reasonable and relevant requests for data by country partners, USAID, peer organisations, and other stakeholders.
• Disseminate all Monthly Reports and USAID Reports back to relevant partners/ programmes upon finalisation
• Manage M&E unit plans and budget
• Perform other job-related responsibilities as assigned by the Provincial Program Manager as and when required and any other tasks which may be allocated from time to time.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Associate Degree

Job application procedure
• Applications in the form of a cover letter and CV must be submitted to Vacancy11@righttocare.org 
• All applicants are required to complete an online competency assessment using this link- https://my.assessio.com/right-to-care-provincial-strategic-information-coo 
• Only applicants that complete the two steps above will be considered.

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