Job Description
Regional Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor (MDTA project 2 position)- for Tigray Regional Office
ICAP at Columbia University, a global health leader situated within the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, seeks highly qualified candidates to serve as Regional Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor to be based in Tigray-Ethiopia.
The incumbent will Provide Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) support to Regional Health Bureaus, Regional Laboratories and health facilities under the President’s Malaria initiatives (PMI) funded Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment (MDT) Activity in Tigray Region.
ICAP seeks highly qualified and experienced candidates to fill the Regional Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor by April 01, 2023.The successful candidate will hold Bachelor degree in health sciences or related discipline preferably with advanced degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Two + years of experience in the design, implementation and management of health monitoring, evaluation and learning systems.
Duty Station: Mekele
Number of Positions: 2
Line Manager: Regional Malaria Program Manager
Overall Objectives for the Job
Provide Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) support to Regional Health Bureaus,
Regional Laboratories and health facilities under the President’s Malaria initiatives (PMI)
funded Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment (MDT) Activity. Reporting to the regional program
manager, the regional MEL advisor is responsible for supporting improvement of malaria
laboratory diagnosis and quality assurance across MDT activity supported health facilities in the respective region.
Major Duties and responsibilities:
• As a member of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team actively participates in the
designing of indicators, develop forms and electronic based systems in collaboration and
cooperation with the team
• Make sure this indicators are incorporated in the health institutions data capturing system;
• Train CU-ICAP-Ethiopia staff on the indicators, data collection system, analysis and changing to a management function;
• Train RHB health personnel and data clerks in the indicators, data collection, electronic
system, analysis and changing to management function;
• Assist the CU-ICAP-Ethiopia regional staff, RHBs and health facilities in quality data
collection;
• Receive health institutions data as per the scheduled reporting period from the regional offices;
• Check the quality of data, analyze the data and prepare reports for the donor and internal use;
• Give feed backs to the regional offices, technical advisors and all CU-ICAP staff on the strong sides, weak points and areas needs improvement or follow-up
• Follow the implementation of the previous quarter comments;
• Follow and give support for the timely implementation of the planning activities;
• Take part in evaluations, publication of interest areas and dissemination of the information in consultation with the supervisor
• Assist in coordination of knowledge management activities in ICAP/CU Ethiopia to
document, share and archive data to build institutional memory as well as to inform
programmatic direction.
• Identify areas for advocacy and advise the management in designing and implementing
advocacy work;
• Represent the organization in M and E issues
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor
Minimum Qualifications:
➢ Bachelor degree in health sciences or related discipline preferably with advanced degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics or Equivalent combination of education and experience
➢ Two + years of experience in the design, implementation and management of health
monitoring, evaluation and learning systems.
➢ Strong data management and analysis skills are a must, including experience with primary collection of clinical data, design of forms and data collection instruments, and data analysis.
➢ Extensive experience with Microsoft Access and Excel and one or more of the following
statistical analysis packages (SAS, SPSS, STATA) is required.
➢ Proficiency in written and spoken English, ability to draft letters and reports.
➢ Strong interpersonal skills
➢ Excellent business and interpersonal communication skills with excellent team building and working experience.
➢ Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with subordinates associates, other department directors and managers and external bodies.
➢ Ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
➢ Knowledge of local language is an added advantage
Travel Requirements
• Approximately 80% travel to supported health facilities