Pact seeks a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Advisor for the USAID-funded Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Immunization, and Malaria Integrated Health (including family planning) Activity, hereafter referred to as “Kira Ukuze” (“Grow well”). This Activity will focus on facility-level interventions and collaborate with the USAID Integrated Community Health (ICH) Activity at the community level to improve the quality of, and demand for, service delivery interventions. This will be a $45M five-year (August 2024-August 2029), cooperative agreement. This position is subject to project award and funding. As this is a Key Personnel position, the candidate selected for this opportunity must have his/her candidacy confirmed by USAID. The location of this position is anticipated to be Bujumbura. Frequent travel to the provincial offices is anticipated.
Kira Ukuze will be the flagship Activity in the USAID Burundi Health Portfolio for Family Planning and Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (FP/RMNCH) at the household and health facility level. Kira Ukuze will be the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) malaria service delivery Activity at the health facility level, working in public and private health facilities in seven malaria high-burden provinces. This Activity will also have to strongly collaborate with the Integrated Community Health Activity in these seven provinces, with collaboration focused on strengthening health facility and community health worker touchpoints, including building and enhancing the referral and counter referral system, supervision of Community Health Workers (CHWs), and reporting of data to facilities by CHWs, along with the delivery of integrated community case management of childhood illness, which includes malaria. Kira Ukuze will also collaborate closely with the USAID Integrated Community Health (ICH) Activity for community-level interventions outside of malaria.
The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Advisor will lead the MEL team, supporting the Activity to develop an annual implementation plan to deliver key MEL services and providing MEL technical guidance. The MEL Advisor is accountable for delivering national-level results for this Activity. The MEL Advisor will partner closely with the Technical Director to promote coordination, collaboration, continuous learning, and adaptive management across all Intermediate Results of the Activity. The MEL Advisor will report to the Chief of Party.
Demonstrated ability to work with diverse and large teams and to foster positive technical working relationships with counterparts and partners at different levels, across countries, organizations, and teams.
Demonstrated supervisory skills, and ability to work well on a team.
Progressively responsible experience in research and learning and/or monitoring and evaluation of Kira Ukuze activities, program beneficiaries, and program staff.
Excellent organizational skills; excellent English and French oral and written communication skills.
Demonstrated relevant technical skills in analyzing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data and packaging the findings.
Successful experience integrating participatory and empowerment MEL approaches.
Extensive expertise in research ethics and Do No Harm requirements in sensitive research environments.
Strong skills in M&E technical capacity development of others.
Extensive knowledge and experience in reporting procedures, best practices, guidelines, and tools for monitoring, evaluation, and learning, including impact evaluation.
Extensive experience with data management systems, including cloud-based.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, i.e., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc., and the ability to use various commercially available statistical software programs.
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