Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Overview

Provide technical expertise for health programs and project evaluations.

You have:

• Master's degree in public health or related field required.
• At least seven years of relevant experience in public health intervention monitoring and evaluation required.
• Proven international exposure in designing and implementing public health evaluation strategies.
• Proficiency in statistical analysis software such as STATA, SAS, or R is essential.
• Demonstrated knowledge of M&E systems and project evaluation required.
• Ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences is required.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau preferred.

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 124,993 USD and 161,152 USD.

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WHO policy for Fast Track Procedures for Emergencies

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

WCO has established project management unit (PMU) to administer national public health programme “Sehatmandi” delivering primaryand secondary health care services across the country through the outsourcing mechanism to NGOs. As an emergency measure this will enable to avoidlarge-scale preventable morbidities and mortalities among mothers, women andchildren. WHO is supporting a up to 1,209 different level health facilitiesacross 17 provinces and may extend its support all provinces in 2022

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

The incumbentwill perform the following duties:

1- Provide technical expertis eto the WHO/PMU programme activities in producing quality plans, logicalframework and project reporting requirements for sustaining life sawing essentialhealth services and systems.

2- Develop M&E approaches,tools, framework, methodologies and monitoring plans specific for PMU management to enable effective decision making.

3- Design system and format to compile and analyze available data and information,prepare and submit weekly and monthly monitoring reports.

4- Create methodology to determinethe data information elements that are required internally and externally tosupport the decision-making.

5- Design standardized methodsof capturing and consolidating evidence-based health interventions and documentlessons learnt, best practices and trend analyses for promoting accountability,responsiveness and transparency.

6- Create and promote partnerships and accountability with stakeholders, NGOs and national and health related partners ensuring consent of all partnersto remedial actions for effective implementation following tracking, reporting and identifying gaps on the progress of the project implementation, .

7- Provide technical insights and expertise to PMU in preparing reports to the Donorsand Key Performance Indicator Report.

8- Develop curriculum and provide training to build and strengthen national capacities for monitoring andevaluation of health programmes.

9- Produce routine analyses on performance to senior management, design concept papers, situation analysis,develop monthly technical reports assessing the implementation of related programmes.

10- Facilitate the operational planning and reporting of related healthemergencies activities, verify results-oriented formulations and brieftechnical leads on proper submissions that culminate in approved operationalwork plans, and their subsequent programmatic monitoring, evaluation and reporting.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: Master's degree in public health, statistics, publicor business administration or information technology. Course work should include training in monitoring and evaluation of projects in public healthand/or epidemiology.

Experience

Essential: At least seven years' of relevant experience including proven international exposure inthe design and implementation of public health intervention monitoring and evaluation strategies, methodologies and tools, including experience inemergency operations or humanitarian context

Desirable: Prior emergency disaster and health outbreak response or humanitarian working experience at field level, with WHO/UN, health cluster partners, recognized humanitarian organizations or with an international nongovernmental organization.

Skills

- Excellent ability to do statistical analyses and to use a statistical analysis package (STATA,SAS, r)

- 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.

- Demonstrated knowledge of Public health principles, disciplines and techniques to implement monitoring and evaluation strategies.

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

- Advanced ability to gather, analyse and disseminate information.

WHO Competencies

WHO global Competencies model at http://www.who.int/employment/WHO_competencies_EN.pdf?ua=1

Teamwork Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences Communication Promoting innovation and organizational learning Moving forward in a changing environment

Other Skills (e.g. IT)

Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications as well as information technology and SQL. Knowledge of data visualization packages (Tableau or another similar package).

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 74,913 (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 2678 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.

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