Monitoring and evaluation coordinator - Pact Tanzania

Monitoring and evaluation coordinator

Pact Tanzania

Property Management

Rest of Tanzania|Full Time|NGO| TSh 3,000,000+

Job Summary

Be an integral part of the USAID Kizazi Kipya project team at cluster-level and will provide leadership and coordination for M&E activities.

• Minimum Qualification: Bachelor
• Experience Level: Mid level
• Experience Length: 5 years

Job Description

Job Title:            Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator
Location:             Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Tabora, Mwanza, Songea and Mbeya
Reporting To:     Technical Integration Cluster Manager

Job Objective:           
The Cluster M&E Coordinator will be an integral part of the USAID Kizazi Kipya project team at cluster-level and will provide leadership and coordination for M&E activities. He / she must be responsible for coordinating data collection and data management for the project, including ensuring data quality and reporting in time to meet key deadlines under the technical direction of the Senior M&E Officer. He / she should take leadership in performing data analysis and visualization, interpretation and preparing material for data demand and use meetings at cluster-level. He / she will also be a supervisor to M&E Officers and Assistant Health Informatics Officers.
Pact Overview

At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow.  The promise of a healthy life.  Of a decent livelihood. Of sustainable natural resources that benefit communities.  Now more than ever in its 42 -year history, Pact is helping millions of people who are poor and marginalized discover and build their own solutions and take ownership over their future.
Pact enables systemic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy, and take part in the benefits that nature provides. Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems, and transforming markets into a force for development.
Responsibilities:

The Cluster M&E Coordinator must develop a close working relationship with the cluster technical staff and CSOs. The Officer will be responsible for following:

•  Coordinate implementation and overseeing monitoring and evaluation activities in the cluster, including development of workplans and indicator frameworks, support for data management, and reporting,
• Coordinate learning, research and evaluations as they arise
• Take leadership in performing cluster-level data analysis, visualization and use of data to assess daily and monthly trends including to engage technical staff in analysis and implications of data for programming
• Generate and contribute to quarterly or other reports, as needed
• Coordinate routine internal data quality assessments (DQAs)
• Facilitate communication between cluster technical team and M&E team
• Contribute to publications and presentations arising from project’s work
• Play a coordinating function for producing data and feeding to regional program and technical people for reports
• Participate in other monitoring, evaluation, research or dissemination work arising from the unit, as requested by supervisor
• Coordinate technical assistance to subgrantees on developing and monitoring targets in compliance with M&E plan
• Conduct and coordinate provision of regular data monitoring visits to CSOs programs; review and provide feedback on grantee performance reports.
• Serve as a mentor to subgrantees and provide technical assistance in various areas relating to M&E
• Other tasks as assigned

 Minimum Requirements:
Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in in public health, sociology, demography, statistics, or other social science area; Masters Degree preferred
• Academic qualification in monitoring and evaluation will be an added advantage.

 Experience:

• The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years professional experience working in Monitoring, Evaluation and reporting, preferably working with donor funded programs;
• Adept at data quality assessment, data analysis, visualization and use
• 2 - 3 years work experience supporting technical or programmatic activities in orphans and vulnerable children (experience with health facility setting a plus)
• Experience in leading and coordinating M&E activities for a project
• Experience with DHIS2 preferred other software a plus.
• Experience implementing qualitative and quantitative research a plus
• Report writing and publication skills
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills in English and Kiswahili
• Excellent peoples and partnership skills.
• Collaborative team player with leadership skills
• Experience with PEPFAR 3.0 funded projects in Tanzania is a plus
• The candidate should have experience in training / workshop facilitation, mentoring and proven ability to develop and maintain effective work relationships with government and other NGO counterparts.

 Skills:

• Ability to lead and work effectively with multiple teams, partner agencies and community members.
• Knowledge of different database software
• Proficient with MS Excel, SPSS, Stata etc.
• Availability and willingness to travel up to 50% time

Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply. 

To learn more about Pact Tanzania visit: http://www.pactworld.org/country/tanzania
 Pact is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factors.