ICAP of Columbia University is working in partnership with the
Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation and the Ministry of Medical Services
to strengthen HIV Care and Treatment services at provincial and district health
facilities.
Title: Director of Strategic
Information and Research
Location: Nairobi, Kenya with
travel to ICAP sites in Kenya
Overall Job Function
Reporting to the Country Director, ICAP Kenya, the Director of
Strategic Information and Research will direct and coordinate all routine
monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and research activities within ICAP Kenya.
Key Responsibilities:
- Overall
coordination of ICAP-Kenya routine M&E activities across programmatic
areas, including HIV care and treatment, PMTCT, TB/HIV, counseling and
testing programs, palliative care, cervical cancer, prevention in care and
treatment settings, and adherence support. This includes strengthening
paper-based and electronic M&E tools at all levels (facility,
district, and national), developing and implementing data management and
quality assurance procedures at all levels, ensuring timely and efficient
flow of data from facility to regional office to central office and to the
ICAP/CU-New York SI Unit, and strengthening data analysis and regular
feedback to the technical and leadership team and the ICAP regional teams
and sites.
- Provide
technical direction for and supervise the SI team in the Nairobi office,
and co-supervise SI staff at regional office to implement routine M&E
activities, which will include developing and revising M&E plan(s) and
staff workplans, and ensuring adequate allocation of resources for
facilities and regional offices.
- Lead
efforts to build capacity of provincial, district, and facility teams to
improve national M&E systems including the national DHIS, using data
for program improvement and timeliness of reporting.
- Oversee
adaptation and implementation of DHIS as ICAP’s internal aggregate
database. This includes ensuring all M&E staff are trained to use the
system; overseeing database customization, data entry, quality assurance
and development of useful outputs from the database including charts,
graphs and pivot tables.
- Ensure
all ICAP reporting obligations are fulfilled, including the generation of
semi-annual and annual progress reports, training reports and other
reports as assigned.
- Generate
and track ICAP-Kenya targets for facilities and regions.
- Perform
data analysis and presentation for presentations and reports and
coordinate the writing of abstracts and scientific papers
- Manage
all ICAP research activities including developing concept sheets and
proposals for new research projects, developing protocols and data
collection instruments; project tracking; hiring and training of research
staff including study coordinators, interviewers, and data entry clerks;
obtaining CU, local and other ethical approvals; developing analysis
plans, and as appropriate, conducting analyses and drafting publications
- Routine
communications with key stakeholders, such as Ministries of Health, CDC,
USAID and other implementing partners on M&E related issues.
- Represent
ICAP/CU-Kenya in national and international for meetings related to
monitoring and evaluation
Education:
- Masters
level degree in public health, (epidemiology, biostatistics, health services,
maternal and child health) or any other relevant social science required
(PhD/MD preferred).
Experience, Skills & Minimum Required Qualifications:
- At
least 5 years professional experience planning, evaluating and
implementing health programs, HIV program and research activities.
- Program
development, project management and research experience.
- Field-oriented
and comfortable with a team approach to program implementation and able to
manage multiple major activities simultaneously.
- High-level
computer skills, including ability to rapidly process and analyze data
using MS Excel and statistical packages
- Leadership
and management skills
- Proven
communication and negotiation skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Medical
degree an advantage
- Excellent
writing skills and communication abilities in both English and Swahili
- High-level
computer skills, including ability to rapidly process and analyze data
using a standard statistical package.
- Advanced
knowledge of electronic medical records systems and deployment of database
systems for patient monitoring.
Title: Senior Monitoring and
Evaluation Officer - Evaluation
Location: Nairobi with travel to
ICAP sites
Overall Job Function:
To provide technical support in the planning and implementation
of Evaluation and Research activities within ICAP HIV/AIDS prevention, care and
treatment program in coordination with the Kenyan Ministries of Health.
The Senior M&E Officer is accountable for the planning and
conduct of evaluation and research development of tools and training.
S/he will also be responsible for analysis of data for key
conference presentations and manuscripts.
Key Responsibilities:
In coordination with the Country Director and with technical
oversight from the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation and Research, the
Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (Evaluation and Research) is responsible
for MER activities in particular:
- Facilitate
and offer technical support in planning and implementing of evaluation and
research activities, including protocol design, implementation, data
collection, data analysis and reporting writing.
- Provide
technical support and guidance to study coordinators at all stages of the
evaluation and research.
- Build
and support multi-disciplinary teams required for the conduct of the
evaluation and research.
- Complete
and compile all necessary research documentation and information to gain
appropriate regulatory and ethical approval.
- Ensure
adherence to research methodology and evaluation standards, and ethical
protocols.
- Identifying
research and evaluation staff capacity building needs, facilitating access
to capacity building opportunities, and providing training and mentorship.
- To
lead design and analysis of data for key conference presentations and
manuscripts.
- Contribute
to the development of ICAP Program/MER strategy, methodology and
processes.
- Perform
study
Requirements:
- Advanced
Degree in epidemiology and/or medical statistics.
- At
least 5 years experience in evaluation and research.
- Strong
statistical data analysis skills in the health field.
- Preference
will be given to those with medical background.
All applications including a current CV, telephone number and 3
referees (one who should be at least your current/previous supervisor) should
be sent to the HR and Administration Manager, ICAP icap.vacancies@gmail.com
before 13th October 2012.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
