National Council for Population and
Development
Monitoring and Evaluation
Officer
1 Post
Reproductive and Maternal Health Services
Unit
Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya
Purpose
2. Link FP achievements
to other relevant reproductive health indicators such as maternal mortality
rate, neonatal mortality rate
Background:
Family planning in Kenya has increased progressively since the early 1980s with
the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) reaching 46% in 2008. This has been
coupled with a decline in the total fertility rate from 8.1 births per woman in
1978 to 4.6 births per woman in 2008.
However, there
is still an unmet need for Family Planning of 25% and a decline in use of the
long acting and permanent methods with challenges such as poor and inequity in
access of FP methods including social cultural barriers.
During the July
2012 London summit on Family Planning, Kenya pledged to protect women’s rights
to family planning by securing additional financial resources and implementing
strategies to reach the poorest and hardest-to-reach segments of the
population, thereby enabling more women and girls to use contraceptives by
2020.
The Ministry of
Health in partnership with stakeholders is therefore working towards
achievement of the national family planning program and Family Planning
2020(FP2020) goals.
This will
require routine monitoring and evaluation of the family planning program
indicators and how they impact on the other key reproductive health indicators
in the country.
Requirements
The officer will,
- Report to the Head of Reproductive and Maternal Health Services Unit (RMHSU) at the Ministry of Health.
- Stationed at the Division of Family Health.
- Work with the Family Planning and M&E teams at the unit
Scope of Work: Identify and create data collection
systems that produce relevant family planning data, as well as performing data
quality checks and analysis that encourages the use of data for strategic
decision-making.
1. Identify,
improve, and recommend linkages between the public and private sector to
facilitate the collection, processing and use of relevant Family Planning data
to support improvements in program functioning and results.
2. Assist in
strengthening the use of data to identify monitoring system weaknesses, support
early recognition of program progress, and for informed decision making
3. Facilitate
the introduction and use of innovative tools and approaches for data analysis
and data dissemination in the country context.
4. Participate
in organizing of annual consensus building workshops with government and
partners that result in the issuance of annual family planning estimates for
key indicators.
5. Perform data
analysis and prepare materials incorporating all available Family Planning data
into concise databases, spreadsheets and documents.
6. Co-ordinate
with all partners working in the area of Family Planning monitoring and
participate in FP2020 Country Working Group Meetings as its Secretariat on
behalf of the MOH.
7. Serve as
Country liaison with Track20 global staff and the FP2020 global PM&A
Working Group
8. Participate
in FP and M&E technical working group meetings.
9. Participate
in other reproductive health programs as that linkages with family planning
program is pivotal
Qualifications and Experience:
For appointment to this grade, a
candidate must have
- Holder of Masters degree in Public Health or Demography with additional training in Monitoring and Evaluation;
- At least 5 years’ experience in a similar field
Terms of
Employment: The successful candidates will be appointed on contract terms for 2
years renewable subject to availability of funds.
Method of Application
Applicants who
meet the above qualifications should send their applications including copies
of academic and professional certificates, testimonials, a copy of identity
card, detailed CV indicating work experience, three (3) names of references and
daytime telephone numbers to:
The Director
General
National Council
for Population and Development
P. O. Box
48994-00100
Nairobi
Or our online
job portal through e-recruitment system accessible through URL: www.ncpd-ke.org/jobs/ so as to reach
the Council on or before 18th July, 2014
Only shortlisted
candidates will be contacted.
