Project Manager / M&E Specialist


The Touch Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving access to essential quality healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa. We enhance the access to essential quality healthcare through training, deployment and retention of skilled health workers such as physicians, nurses, lab technicians as well as improving the healthcare delivery systems to enable the provision of care by the health workers.
For more information about Touch Foundation, please visit our website www.touchfoundation.org.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

We are seeking a Project Manager / Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to play a leadership role in program operations and implementation in Tanzania. The Project Manager / Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will be responsible for various projects in support of Touch programs including activities such as planning, implementation management and reporting. Additionally, the Project Manager / Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will collaborate with organizational leadership, program team members, funding and program implementation partners and key stakeholders to implement and coordinate a robust set of M&E systems. He/she will report to the Program Director: Clinical and Academic Services and the Country Director.

Responsibilities and Tasks

Project Management

  • Manage the various activities related to the implementation of the foundation's programs, working in collaboration with management, in-country leadership and program funders
  • Develop and update program workplans in collaboration with program team and management
  • Oversee sub-contractors, vendors and other partners, ensuring that they deliver on agreed upon objectives within the agreed upon time frame and budget
  • Prepare, manage and monitor program budgets
  • Collaborate with program team to undertake effective monitoring and evaluation of the programs
  • Conduct data analyses and prepare reports on program implementation progress and impact for management, donors or other stakeholders
  • Assist with compliance with U.S., Tanzanian and all relevant regulations, donor requirements and organizational policies and procedures
  • Maintain holistic and detailed understanding of program work as well as opportunities for expansion
  • Assist with preparation of funding proposals
  • Contribute to suite of communication vehicles, including print and web-based articles, letters and other marketing materials
  • Communicate regularly and effectively with various program partners
Monitoring & Evaluation
  • In collaboration with program leadership and staff, develop short and long term M& E plan to assess program goals and objectives
  • Provide input into the M&E plan, framework and toolkit, particularly in the areas of the objectives, indicators and monitoring mechanisms, processes and procedures, data collection and reporting systems.
  • Integrate framework and toolkit with existing facility EHRs
  • Undertake regular site-visits to support the implementation of M&E system, to conduct and participate in training sessions and evaluation workshops and to adapt plans and processes as needed.
  • Mentor data management including data entry and training of data extractors and data collectors (scribes)
  • Ensure effective record keeping, data gathering, information sharing and communication
  • Analyze and interpret statistics
  • Support implementation of baseline and other surveys
  • Prepare reports on M&E findings, working closely with program and finance teams and stakeholders.
  • Use reports to make appropriate recommendations to management on identified implementation strategies, targets and operational issues
  • Review reports with team and leadership ensuring compliance with requirements of the reporting systems for preparing project reports per donor requirements and fundraising efforts
  • Provide technical assistance and data for M and E component to inform grant proposals and external communications.
  • Ensure that monitoring data is reviewed and discussed in the appropriate forum and in a timely fashion in terms of implications for future action.
  • Maintain database
  • Enforce internal QA processes for data collection and reporting monitoring the data for accuracy, validity and reliability; create and analyze monitoring reports, evaluate for impact and to identify the causes of potential problems and actions needed.
  • Conduct investigations of significant change or irregularity
  • Create and maintain on-line and hard copy M and E procedure manuals for field staff
  • Ensure that data privacy, security and back-up protocols are implemented
As job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, the Project Manager / Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist may be required to undertake other duties that are broadly in line with the above key duties.

Qualifications of successful candidate

Knowledge, Education and Experience

  • Minimum 4 years relevant professional experience
  • Masters or Doctorate degree in relevant field (e.g. MPH, MBA, MPA, MD, international development or related fields) or equivalent intrinsics and experience providing a solid foundation in strategic or operational problem-solving
  • Experience working in a developing country context
  • Excellent experience in project/program management, with multiple stakeholders, preferably with USAID funded programs
  • Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing M&E systems, including performance tracking, impact evaluations, statistical sampling, indicator development, survey/questionnaire design, interviewing techniques, and quantitative and qualitative data analysis
  • Training in M&E development and implementation
  • M&E server / database programming and management experience preferred
  • Capacity-building of M&E methods and systems with multiple stakeholders
  • Information analysis and report writing.
  • Good judgment and discretion to represent the Touch Foundation in a highly professional manner, as well as respect for local "culture."
  • Experience working with donor regulations; information analysis and report writing
Skills
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Strong analytical, leadership, organizational and problem solving skills
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Superior organizational and planning skills for balancing multiple projects and responsibilities
  • Ability to respond to shifting needs with flexibility while maintaining a positive approach and sense of humor
  • Ability to multi-task while leading a complex team
  • A problem-solving approach to challenging situations
  • Solid relationship-building skills: ability to interface with external constituents
  • Ability to proactively work independently and as an effective team member
  • Comfort with managing multiple assignments in a dynamic, developing nation context
  • Capacity to contact and interact openly, honestly, and professionally with individuals in a culturally appropriate manner
  • Excellent skills in the functional use of Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft word
  • Minimum one year commitment
Qualified applicants shall submit their CV, including contact details for 3 references, and a covering letter explaining why you are best suited for the position before the close of business on 30th April.
Applications should be sent via e-mail to touch_foundation_jobs@mckinsey.com, stating the position being applied for in the subject line. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
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