Pact Tanzania, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer  

Location Dar es Salaam and Mwanza

Pact Overview


At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. The promise of a healthy life. Of a decent livelihood. Of sustainable natural resources that benefit communities. Now more than ever in its 42-year history, Pact is helping millions of people who are poor and marginalized discover and build their own solutions and take ownership over their future.

Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems, and transforming markets into a force for development. Pact Tanzania is a field office of “Pact” an international non-governmental and non-profit making organization with its headquarters in Washington DC. Pact Tanzania exists to build local capacity to enable systematic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy and enjoy the benefit nature provides.

Position Purpose;

To serve as an active member of the team in the implementation of Pact Tanzania’s Kizazi Kipya project (New Generation) with the primary responsibility for supporting monitoring and evaluation functions under the technical direction of the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (M&E) Officer.

Key Responsibilities;
The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer must develop a close working relationship with the subgrantees. The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will be responsible for

• Support in implementing and overseeing monitoring and evaluation activities in the cluster, including the development of work plans and indicator frameworks, support for data management, and reporting,
• Support learning, research, and evaluations as they arise
• Support data analysis, visualization and use of data to assess daily and monthly trends including to engage technical staff in analysis and implications of data for programming
• Generate and contribute to quarterly or other reports, as needed
• Conduct routine internal data quality assessments (DQAs)
• Facilitate communication between the technical team and Monitoring and Evaluation team
• Contribute to publications and presentations arising from project’s work
• Play a coordinating function for producing data and feeding to regional program and technical people for reports
• Participate in other monitoring, evaluation, research or dissemination work arising from the unit, as requested by supervisor
•  Provided technical assistance to subgrantees on developing and monitoring targets in compliance with Monitoring and Evaluation plan
• Conduct and coordinate provision of regular data monitoring visits to subgrantee programs; review and provide feedback on grantee performance reports.
•  Serve as a mentor to subgrantees and provide technical assistance in various areas relating to Monitoring and Evaluation
• Other tasks as assigned

Minimum Requirements;

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, sociology, demography, statistics, or any other social science degree.
• Masters Degree preferred
• Academic qualifications in monitoring and evaluation will be an added advantage.

Experience

• The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of professional experience working in Monitoring, Evaluation, and reporting, preferably working with donor-funded programs;
• Adept at data quality assessment, data analysis, visualization, and use
• 2 – 3 years work experience supporting technical or programmatic activities in orphans and vulnerable children (experience with health facility setting a plus)
•  Experience with DHIS2 preferred other software a plus.
•  Experience implementing qualitative and quantitative research a plus
•  Report writing and publication skills
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills in English and Kiswahili
• Excellent peoples and partnership skills.
• Collaborative team player with leadership skills
• Experience with PEPFAR 3.0 funded projects in Tanzania is a plus
• The candidate should have experience in training/workshop facilitation, mentoring, and proven ability to develop and maintain effective work relationships with government and other NGO counterparts

Skills

•  Ability to work effectively with multiple teams, partner agencies, and community members.
• Knowledge of different database software
• Proficient with MS Excel, SPSS, Stata, etc.
•  Availability and willingness to travel up to 50 time

Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.

(only shortlisted candidates will be contacted)

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, citizenship status, genetic information, matriculation, family responsibilities, personal appearance, credit information, tobacco use (except in the workplace), membership in an employee organization, or other protected classifications or non-merit factors.

Job closing date : 22-Oct-2019

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