PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
EpiC is a five-year global project funded by PEPFAR through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), dedicated to achieving and maintaining HIV epidemic control. The project provides strategic technical assistance and direct service delivery (DSD) to break through barriers to 95-95-95 and promote self-reliant management of national HIV programs by improving HIV case-finding, prevention, and treatment programming.
JOB SUMMARY:
With oversight from the Senior SI Advisor, the Senior M&E Officer will provide overall data management, statistical reporting and ensuring data collection tools are utilized accordingly for the program. He/she will ensure timely and accurate collection and reporting of programmatic data within their respective cohorts and categories. The Officer will manage and ensure high performance of project databases, ensuring safety protocols are in place.
RESPONSIBILITIES OVERVIEW
- Contributes to program quality according to FHI 360 standards including quality assurance and quality improvement initiatives.
- Support improvement of M&E systems and processes for effective and efficient data quality management
- Create data storage and retrieval systems, troubleshoot database issues, and implement database recovery procedures and safety protocols.
- Contribute in improving production of timely and accurate program reports to stakeholders
- Assist in designing formative and evaluative research and provide technical assistance in data collection, analysis, and report writing.
- Establish standard operating procedures and quality assurance for database management systems and including capacity planning, data maintenance and security policy.
- Assist designers with creating user interfaces for business application prototypes and participate in quality assurance exercises.
- Collaborate with other team members to coordinate development of new datasets.
- Provide data request needs for the program.
- Support training of program staff on designed data tools
- Ensure compliance with all ethical guidelines as prescribed by FHI360, MoH, the Eswatini ethics committee, and/or the principal investigator as relevant
REPORTING
- Provide analysed monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual statistical reports in a timely manner.
- Document lessons learned and success stories
- Contribute to the preparation of program and activity reports on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual as per USAID template and guidelines.
- Coordinate routine data quality assessments, provide routine reports and submit to Senior M&E Lead
- Additional responsibilities as assigned
SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES
- Good strategic and analytical thinking and ability to interpret public health and epidemiological data
- Advanced computer skills in Excel, Word processing, Database management, SPSS or other statistical packages
- Advanced knowledge with database design and management such as DHIS 2, and experience maintaining a computerized databases a plus.
- Familiarity with DATIM and DHIS 2
- Excellent writing, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
- Fluent in English and Siswati, both written and spoken; excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Familiar with U.S. Government monitoring and evaluation requirements, in particular PEPFAR is a must.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology with 3 yearsโ experience.
- 3-5 yearsโ experience in programmatic research, monitoring and/or evaluation.
- 2-5 yearsโ experience in database design, development and producing reports from a database application.
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