Technical Advisor- Strategic Information/ Monitoring & Evaluation

• Leads the design and implementation of the project’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities, including the development of the project’s performance monitoring plan (PMP); development and monitoring of project indicators; implementation of project evaluation; synthesis of data and study outcome reports; quality assurance and auditing of data.
• Leads the design and implementation of the project’s learning activities including required operations research, performance evaluations, impact evaluations and rapid/special studies. Lead efforts to develop studies which inform the improvement of HIV service delivery in the country.
• Makes contribution to the development and implementation of M&E tools and systems to improve ability to collect, interpret and aggregate data that demonstrate impact and program accountability and progress.
• Develops systems for high quality quantitative and qualitative methods and participatory methodologies to monitor program quality for performance and results.
• Identifies best practices for documentation of success stories, technical reports, or peer review publications and reviews surveillance, research and evaluation publications prior to release to stakeholders.
• Ensures that the project is aligned and reports to the National Health Management Information Systems (NHMIS) and promote data use among stakeholders for learning and policy development and programming.
• Oversees design, implementation and maintenance of project health information management systems (both electronic and manual) to ensure timely and/or real-time availability of quality project data.
• Maximizes data visualization through the designing and programming of a DHIS-2 dashboard to promote data use among APC implementing partners
• Builds capacity of staff, implementing partners, government counterparts, and other stakeholders in program monitoring and evaluation, data collection and management, and research and learning methods.
• Ensure research implementation adheres to FHI 360 and international policies and standards and remains technically and ethically sound. Usher research protocols through FHI 360 Internal Review Board and national external review processes.

Problem Solving & Impact:

• Demonstrates ability to assess needs within agreed upon duties and considers course of action best to meet those needs.
• Effectively applies knowledge of technical area to solve range of problems.
• Demonstrates ability to develop solutions to problems that cannot be solved using existing methods or approaches.
• Faulty decisions/ recommendations /failures to complete assignments will normally result in serious delays to assigned programs resulting in considerable expenditure of additional time, resources and funds.
• Decisions and actions impact primarily work flow, project processes and timeframes.
• Problems encountered are generally varied, requiring review of practices and precedents to resolve.
• Problem solving involves evaluating and resolving discrepancies with data, analyses, processes, etc. within prescribed guidelines.
• Policies or guidelines generally exist for most problems; others must be referred to supervisor or more senior professional.

Supervision Given/Received:

• Coordinates own work flow and sets individual priorities.
• Works under general guidelines for completion and accuracy as determined by the supervisor.
• Accomplishes results through lower level staff managers or through experienced staff who exercise independence in their assignments.
• May manage a centralized functional area of activity.