PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity. By mobilizing partners around the world, we take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, we deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health. ted
We seek to recruit a Regional Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist for Africa to further the M&E Department’s goal of strengthening monitoring and evaluation skills and data analysis capacity to measure and learn from results across PATH’s global and field programs. The M&E Regional Specialist will work with the M&E Department to design and provide capacity building opportunities through formal workshops and existing work opportunities to improve the knowledge base and regional capacity to use proven M&E practices and approaches. The Regional Specialist will support and offer appropriate technical assistance for M&E activities in a diverse portfolio of projects in the region and will work with the project teams to mentor and train staff in the areas of M&E and data analysis. The Regional Specialist will be tasked with identifying M&E staff in the region for relevant trainings and professional development opportunities, and will facilitate and promote regional staff engagement and participation in the M&E Community of Practice. The Regional Specialist will also serve as a liaison for the Office of Research Ethics where they will provide guidance and resources for project teams to understand policies and processes related to both the Research Determination Committee and the Research Ethics Committee. The M&E Regional Specialist will report to the Senior M&E Officer in the M&E Department, and will receive supervision and support from the Kenya Country Program Office.
Specific duties and responsibilities:
1) Provide technical assistance related to carrying out essential activities of project monitoring and evaluation including:
- Introduce M&E Practice Standards and Tools, including guidance and training for creating sustainable project M&E systems.
- Work with teams to set up project based M&E plans to track results or fill identified gaps in current M&E plans.
- Work with teams to create data analysis plans, and perform data analysis as needed.
- Orient projects to accepted guidance and standards for research and evaluation design, including developing sound research/evaluation objectives, questions, methods, and analysis plans.
- Provide or identify appropriate research and evaluation management capacity needed to develop, procure and manage special studies.
- Orient projects to guidance for interpreting and reporting project based results, or, as needed, draft assessment and findings reports.
2) Strengthen institutional capacity in M&E
- Conduct M&E assessments to Identify the program and projects’ abilities to collect, analyze, use and report accurate, valuable and high-quality M&E data.
- Identify training and capacity building needs in regional programs and projects.
- Develop training materials, adapt existing trainings, support teams needing M&E assistance, and help mobilize existing expertise across PATH.
- Identify regional M&E and research experts and champions to support M&E and research capacity-strengthening and help address related issues and challenges.
- Facilitate the active participation of M&E staff from the regional offices in the M&E Community of Practice.
- Contribute to the Department’s shared repository of specific M&E tools, manuals, guidelines, examples, and reports so that others can transparently find and utilize on other activities and projects.
- Conduct a bimonthly M&E related round-table to discuss results, lessons learned, or general M&E related topics of interest.
- Train staff in monitoring and evaluation methods.
- Develop and provide technical guidance on conducting evaluations.
3) Contribute to ongoing M&E work as needed:
- Conduct desk reviews and assessments to support research and M&E related work.
- Conduct data quality assessments using generally accepted quality standards.
- Conduct data analysis.
- Contribute and review M&E sections in proposal documents and reports.
- Facilitate the use of best practices on how to assess and work with external capacity (partners, consultants, outsourced firms) being considered or conducting project based M&E, research and analysis.
HOW TO APPLY:
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You must currently have legal authorization to work in Kenya.
PATH is dedicated to diversity and is an equal opportunity employer.
