We are currently seeking qualified candidates for the position of: Monitoring & Evaluation for an anticipated USAID Combatting Urban TB in Bangladesh. This is a four-year project aimed at providing comprehensive package of TB prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment services in high TB transmission areas and people at high risk of TB infection and disease in urban Bangladesh.
The M&E Specialist will be responsible for monitoring and evaluation of this project. S/he will develop monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools, systems and research studies, undertake M & E activities of the project; and in the development and dissemination of tools, materials, reports, papers, and intervention linked research. The M & E Director will also be responsible for data analysis to inform the project implementation and to produce timely, accurate and complete reporting. She/he will be responsible for the overall management of monitoring and evaluation and research system for the project. S/he will lead and coordinate monitoring and evaluation, systems development, research and related activities, leading the development and implementation of a plan to monitor progress, evaluate effectiveness, and disseminate results, as well as overseeing operations research and other data-based analysis to facilitate evidence-based improvements in project performance and expand understanding and lessons learned. S /he will ensure adherence to monitoring of project activities using developed tools and indicators and provide technical guidance by designing and developing M&E systems and procedures as per the USAID guidelines.
- Develop M & E plans and provide in-country technical leadership and support for monitoring and evaluation of the project, ensure the integration of M&E activities into all project components.
- Develop high quality quantitative and qualitative methods and participatory methodologies to monitor program quality for performance and results.
- Lead the design and implementation of operational researches
- Collect and analyze information and report on project activities.
- Ensure timely and complete reporting from in-country executing partners in accordance with approved reporting formats, especially supported health facilities and city corporations reporting into the national health database and reporting into USAID reporting formats
- Provide training to staff, primary stakeholders, and implementing partners on M&E components in project design; such as monitoring plan, assessments, reviews, surveys and evaluations.
- Monitor and evaluate progress towards annual work plans, expected outputs, including selecting and monitoring progress in meeting indicators.
- Assist the Chief of Party in the preparation of work plans/selection of indicators and annual implementation plans with a view towards the project’s M&E requirements.
- Coordinate the preparation of all quarterly progress reports, annual project report, inception report, ad-hoc technical reports, and success stories for USAID funding in line with the required formats.
- Collect data for annual M&E plan and use those data to improve project performance.
- Adapt and implement tools and techniques to improve the quality and use of data for decision making.
- Identify best practices for documentation as success stories, technical reports, or peer review publications and reviews surveillance, research and evaluation publications prior to release to stakeholders
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in developing, monitoring, evaluating, and supporting the information systems management, preferably in the health sector, specifically TB highly desired
- Experience of developing M&E tools especially in TB programs or having worked with projects where systematic input, output and process data were collected and used to guide programming
- Experience in research methodology for health programs
- Experience with gender integration within M&E tools and systems
- A good understanding of routine health information systems, and literacy in management information systems coupled with proven ability in using visuals like graphs, chart, maps, and GIS;
- Knowledge of database design and use, data processing and analysis, and data analysis packages e.g. MS Excel/Access, SPSS, EPl lnfo, or similar packages like SPSS, SAS, DHIS2 and DATIM for reporting or analysis;
- Experience with Monitoring and Evaluation in USG supported projects in particular and /or in large scale public health programs systems, especially in Asia (preferably in Bangladesh) is an advantage.
- Knowledge of and experience in training and capacity building, establishing data quality assurance systems in public health programs /TB projects is an advantage.
- Prior experience conducting operations research.
- Fluency in written and spoken English and demonstrated capacity to effectively communicate and document, including the writing of quality reports and detailed analysis of strategic information, knowledge of Bengali (local language) preferable.