Monitoring & Evaluation Manager

Overview

Coordinate monitoring and evaluation for health intervention projects

You have:

• At least seven years of experience at national/international level in public health, monitoring, evaluation or surveillance.
• Advanced level university degree in public health, business, statistics, economics or information technology.
• Expert knowledge of English.
• Good knowledge of grant management processes.
• Intermediate knowledge of French.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, demonstrated skills in presenting information to group of people with diverse educational and training backgrounds.
• Excellent ability to do statistical analyses and to use a statistical analysis package (STATAS,SAS,r).
• Good knowledge of SQL, MS Systems, particularly MS EXCEL, WORD, and POWEPOINT.
• Knowledge of data visualization package (Tableau or another similar package) would be an asset.

Contract

This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 173,480 USD and 223,666 USD.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

Unitaid is a multilateral hosted by the World Health Organization. Unitaid is focused on making a unique and impactful contribution to the global response against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria in developing countries. It catalyses improvements for the larger response through forward-looking and time-limited investments that are designed to increase access to better, more effective and more affordable health products (i.e. preventives, medicines and diagnostics). These investments typically target market-based interventions such as price reductions, improvements in quality and supply, and the introduction of innovative products more suitable for the populations in need.

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DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

The role of the M&E Manager is to:

1. Provide specific technical advice to different Portfolio teams, Unitaid's senior management and grantees of Unidaid grants to inform investment and programmatic decisions. Lead and coordinate grant evaluations and data quality audit and maintain Unitaid-wide consistency on all grants.

2. Review grantee reports and analyze performance.

3. Assist with grant evaluations and data quality audit.

4. Oversee reviewing M&E systems of the grantees and provide technical advice.

5. Develop and encourage use of standard M&E approaches, tools and methodologies for portfolio management across teams to enable effective decision making.

6. Lead the development of a number or reports for Unitaid senior management, Unitaid's Executive Board and grantees.

7. Provide oversight to consolidate relevant project data for entry into the Unidaid Monitoring system.

8. Work with portfolio teams to regularly monitor and assess progress of grants.

9. Provide training on M&E to portfolio teams as well as grantees.

10. Produce routine analyses on grant performance for senior management.

11. Support proper functioning of portfolio information systems (UNIPRO).

12. Provide support to consolidate relevant project data for entry into the Unitaid Monitoring System, and-Perform any other duties relevant to the functioning of the M&E Team.

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REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: Advanced level university degree in public health, business, statistics, economics or information technology. Course work should include training in monitoring and evaluation of projects in public health and/or epidemiology. Desirable:

Experience

Essential:

1. At least seven years of experience at national/international level in public health, monitoring, evaluation or surveillance;

2. Knowledge of, and experience with, data entry and quantitative data analysis;

3. Experience in producing technical and analytical documents in health-related field. Desirable: Experience in working with a range of global health stakeholders. Good knowledge of grant management processes.

Skills

Mandatory competencies:

1) Technical expertise,

2) Overall attitude at work,

3) Creating an empowering and motivating environments;

4) Excellent ability to do statistical analyses and to use a statistical analysis package (STATAS,SAS,r);

5) Good knowledge of SQL, MS Systems, particularly MS EXCEL, WORD, and POWEPOINT;

6) Knowledge of data visualization package (Tableau or another similar package) would be an asset;

7) Excellent knowledge of the Logical Framework Approach to project planning, including ability to set measurable indicators for project monitoring; -Good understanding of M&E systems, project evaluations, and data quality audit;

8) Knowledge of communicable diseases including HIV, TB and Malaria in a low income country setting would be an asset;

9) Excellent ability to work as part of a team;

10) Excellent written and oral communication skills, demonstrated skills in presenting information to group of people with diverse educational and training backgrounds.

WHO Competencies

1. Teamwork
2. Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
3. Communication
4. Producing results
5. Knowing and managing yourself

Use of Language Skills

Essential: Expert knowledge of English. Desirable: Intermediate knowledge of French.

REMUNERATION

WHO salaries for staff in the Professional category are calculated in US dollars. The remuneration for the above position comprises an annual base salary starting at USD 75,602 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable), a variable post adjustment, which reflects the cost of living in a particular duty station, and currently amounts to USD 4498 per month for the duty station indicated above. Other benefits include 30 days of annual leave, allowances for dependent family members, home leave, and an education grant for dependent children.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade level

• Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.

• A written test may be used as a form of screening.

• In the event that your candidature is retained for an interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require individual review.

• Any appointment/extension of appointment is subject to WHO Staff Regulations, Staff Rules and Manual.

• Staff members in other duty stations are encouraged to apply.

• For information on WHO's operations please visit: http://www.who.int.

• WHO is committed to workforce diversity.

• WHO prides itself on a workforce that adheres to the highest ethical and professional standards and that is committed to put the WHO Values Charter into practice.

• WHO has zero tolerance towards sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct (i.e., discrimination, abuse of authority and harassment). All members of the WHO workforce have a role to play in promoting a safe and respectful workplace and should report to WHO any actual or suspected cases of SEA, sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct. To ensure that individuals with a substantiated history of SEA, sexual harassment or other types of abusive conduct are not hired by the Organization, WHO will conduct a background verification of final candidates.

• WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.

• WHO has a mobility policy which can be found at the following link: http://www.who.int/employment/en/. Candidates appointed to an international post with WHO are subject to mobility and may be assigned to any activity or duty station of the Organization throughout the world.

• Applications from women and from nationals of non and underrepresented Member States are particularly encouraged.

• As a WHO staff member assigned solely and exclusively to support this Partnership, selected staff will have no right of reassignment or transfer outside the Partnership either during or at the end of his/her appointment, including pursuant to WHO Staff Rule 1050. (This does not apply to WHO fixed-term staff members reassigned from a non-Partnership position.)

• UNITAID is a partnership hosted and administered by WHO, located outside WHO premises in Le Pommier, 1218 Le Grand-Saconnex.

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