Advisory - USAID Boresha Afya Project- Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

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Deloitte East Africa provides seamless cross-border services to multinationals, large national enterprises, small and medium sized enterprises and the public sector, across six (6) countries of the region: Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Burundi.

Deloitte Tanzania has 7 exciting opportunities for suitably qualified individuals to join our USAID Boresha Afya project in the role of Monitoring & Evaluation Officer for our offices in Iringa, Njombe, Lindi, Mtwara, Mufindi, Wanging’ombe and Kilombero.

Deloitte Tanzania in partnership with FHI360, Engender Health and Management and Development for Health (MDH) is responsible for implementing USAID Boresha Afya Program.  USAID Boresha Afya is a five-year program (October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2021) funded by the American People through USAID aiming to support the Government of Tanzania (GoT) to increase access to high quality, comprehensive and integrated health services, especially for women and youth, with a focus on maternal, neonatal, child and reproductive health and nutrition outcomes. Emphasis is on comprehensive and integrated health service delivery for preventative and curative services with regard to HIV/AIDS, Family Planning (FP), Tuberculosis (TB), Malaria, Nutrition and Maternal and Child Health (MCH). Deloitte Consulting Limited will implement the program in the Southern Zone that covers the geographic area of Njombe, Iringa, Ruvuma, Morogoro, Lindi and Mtwara.

Broad Function

The Monitoring and Evaluation Officers will be responsible for supporting the regional and/or district sub-grantees to collect, analyse and report quality data while ensuring that they comply with all data management and quality dimensions requirements of the program.  They will identify Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) capacity needs of the sub-grantees and provide support in building their capacity at all levels.  They will oversee the use of agreed national M&E tools and ensure timely, quality and reliable data reporting. They will be responsible for covering all requirements of the component of the program and maintain conducive working relationships with facility staff, the RHMT & CHMT and other relevant partners working in their region of operations. 

They will report to the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Team Lead and administratively to the Regional Program Manager of the region.

   

Main Areas of Responsibility:

• Work in close collaboration with facility health care workers, RHMT/CHMT, HMIS & FP’s to ensure coordination and complementarities of monitoring and evaluation activities to enhance regular data collection and submission;
• Work in collaboration with the project technical teams to review program performance and service statistics of each site and facilities;
• Contribute  to the development  and presentation of periodic reports to key stakeholders;
• Contribute to documentation and dissemination of best practices and  lessons learnt;
• Build the capacity of the facility based data-clerks and health care workers  on data quality assurance;
• Support development and implementation of data quality improvement and quality assurance (QA/QI) plans for the program;
• Coordinate quarterly data collection and analysis at site/district/regional level;
• Assist in the compilation of Semi and Annual Progress Reports (S/APRs), including quarterly reports;
• Producing a variety of written documents e.g. success stories, abstracts, data summaries, workshop reports, etc.;
• Actively participate in routine internal and external data quality assessments;
• Deploy relevant measures for reviewing performance across sites within the region in line with program and national standards;
• Compile and analyse data for performance monitoring and evaluation of the project and work with partners at regional level to analyse and utilize data to take corrective act;
• Within target districts and regions collect and analyse data on progress integrational activities and take corrective measures appropriately including comparison among three USAID Boresha Afya program sites;
• Actively work with the Results Management Office to ensure that the districts and region meets set targets in accordance with PEPFAR and National standards;
• Support sub grantees in preparation of  implementable annual work plans;
• Certify completion of Milestones by sub grantees as per prior agreed specifications;
• Any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

 Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Demography, Nursing, Medicine, Statistics, Social Sciences (Sociology, Development studies, Social work), Population, Health Informatics or Monitoring & Evaluation or any medical degree;
• Good computer literacy in basic Microsoft packages, any data management and visualization software (excel, access, Tableau, etc);
• Ability to use any  statistical analysis software such as R, SAS, Stata;
• Proven Computer skills and strong knowledge of MS Office applications especially Excel.

Other relevant Skills/Experience:

• Working experience in a donor-funded health programs as an M&E;
• Good planning and organization skills;
• Experience and understanding of the use of  data in the health sector’s HIV and RCH/FP programs using routine program data  ( DHIS2, CTC2 data).

To the successful candidates, the firm will offer a competitive and performance driven remuneration package, a highly energized team environment comprising of individuals who are committed to working as one.

Closing date:  20 January 2017

Deloitte in Tanzania is the accounting and advisory firm of East Africa. The Tanzanian firm is locally owned, run and staffed with Tanzanian and international professionals. It is part of Deloitte’s East African practice providing services from offices in Dar es Salaam, Nairobi, Kampala, and Mombasa. Deloitte is one of the leading professional services firms in Tanzania, serving a national and regional clientele. Headquartered in Dar-es-Salaam, Deloitte in Tanzania’s close to 100 highly qualified staff serve government agencies, multinational companies, financial institutions, insurance companies, manufacturing firms, donor organizations, NGOs, CBOs and FBOs.

Requisition code: EAT-128635-NL

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