Summary
Date Posted: Friday, September 10, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Company Description
Since the 1970’s, the University of Maryland, Baltimore has been engaged in critical global health initiatives around the world. In September 2009, the Maryland Global Initiatives Corporation (MGIC) was formed as a nonprofit affiliate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) to help support the implementation of UMB international programs. UMB, through MGIC, currently has offices in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia. MGIC's administrative operations support the research and clinical programs of the School of Medicine, Institute of Human Virology (IHV) and Center for International Health, Education & Biosecurity (Ciheb), and other UMB entities.

Project Description
Maryland Global Initiatives Corporation (MGIC) Baltimore, USA, with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is implementing through Community Impact to Reach Key and Underserved Population for Treatment and Support (CIRKUITS) program a CDC-funded PEPFAR Program being implemented by University of Maryland in Zambia with sub-awards to Ciheb Zambia is entering its 4th year of implementation with slight modification to the scope of its portfolio and slight changes to the structure of implementation with the incoming of KP CSOs to support the Key Population component of the grant. To this end, the SI structure will require the services of the following cadres to strengthen her workforce in COP21 beginning from 1st October 2021
Position: Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Manager (Position 1)
Location: Lusaka

Job Summary:
This role shall perform the following functions
Duties and Responsibilities
The purpose of this position is to lead the strengthen University of Maryland’s downstream sector M&E systems and capacity for the country programs. The Senior M&E Manager will be responsible for supervising the Central level M&E Specialist as well as the Provincial and District team of M&E/Strategic Information Officers under UMB and the M&E Coordinators for the KP CSO partner on the grant. Under the supervision of the Director of Strategic Information, the Senior M&E Manager will coordinate SI activities in conjunction with the Health Informatics and Data Analyst Leads in addition to leading the design of a system for client-level data collection, collation, and timely reporting of CIRKUITS’ result to the Donors for both the KPs and DREAMS portfolio. He/ She will keep abreast of state-of-the-art M&E approaches to ensure the use of technically appropriate monitoring and evaluation models and information systems for data collection and reporting systems.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks
Lead the setting up and management of robust and functional Monitoring & Evaluation system for the HIV programs especially the type that allows for client-level program cascade reporting as well as PEPFAR MER indicators and ad-hoc data. He/ She will contribute significantly to the data analysis and visualization for the grant so that results are clearly communicated using high-quality data.
Key Tasks
• Design and Monitor proper collection, quality assurance and reporting of PEPFAR MER program performance data from all community-based programs and health facilities in the focus district and in line with the National HMIS guidelines and meeting the Government of Zambia, CDC Zambia and PEPFAR reporting requirements.
• Lead regular assessments, planning for and develop the technical capacity of community and facility level data workers, program technical specialists, facility data coordinators, respective PHO district and provincial Health Information Staff to improve the overall quality and integrity of all program related data.
• Monitor and be responsible for optimal functionality of established and scaled-up electronic health record management systems (SmartCare Plus) and the complimentary community-based data collection systems (including DHIS2 Tracker programs) in all supported facilities for the reporting of both the community NHMIS dataset and PEPFAR MER 2.4.
• Stimulate the process for achieving 100% accurate and timely reporting of data from all community and facilities sites for both PEPFAR MER and GRZ (i.e., HIA2) Indicators using all available data and HIS tools.
• Collaborate with the respective UMB Provincial SIOs, PHO SI/M&E Team, the DHIOs, Community Programs teams, Facility-in-Charge (FIC’s), and KP CSOs to conduct routine Data Quality Assurance (RDQA) on all sites on a monthly basis until there are an establishment of excellent data collection and reporting systems as well up-to-date entries of all client’s interactions on the DHIS2 Tracker program and SmartCare Plus EHR systems in supported facilities.
• Initiate and lead in the review of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) established for Data Management (including Collection, Aggregation, and Data Validations) in line with changes in data demands for the program.
• Lead Technical development of simple and complex data analytics for program decision making and transferring the capacity to district and provincial level teams.
• Represent SI Team at National level SI/M&E TWGs and make presentations and technical inputs.

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or Biostatistics or Public Health or Health Informatics or related fields with experience in PEPFAR M&E/SI reporting system as well as DREAMS Implementation and its SI System
• A Master’s degree in Epidemiology or MPH would be an advantage
• Familiarity and proficiency in DHIS2 –Tracker & Event programs, SmartCare or other patient electronic medical records management solution
• At least 5 years doing similar work as an M&E Team Lead
• Experience with Microsoft, Excel, Access, MS SQL Server, MySQL
• Data visualization skills – PowerBI, Tableau and Web connectors
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in data management
• Experience working in a community HIV prevention, ART Linkage programs
• Excellent presentation and writing skills

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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