CARE
International in Kenya is looking for a well organized and highly motivated
individual who is result-oriented to fill the following
position:
Monitoring & Evaluation Manager
Monitoring & Evaluation Manager
1 Position
Ref: MEM/03/2016
Supervisor: Senior Program Manager
Location /
Duty Station: Kisii
County
Grade: H
Job Summary & Purpose: Reporting to the Senior Program Manager,
Comprehensive HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment, the Monitoring &
Evaluation Manager will be responsible for the overall design and management of
a robust monitoring and evaluation system for the CDC funded comprehensive HIV
Prevention, care and treatment program being implemented in Kisii County.
Key Responsibilities and Tasks
Responsibility
1: Set up and
manage a functional Monitoring & Evaluation system for the comprehensive
HIV program.
Tasks
1. Take lead
in development and implementation of Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for the
program.
2. Lead formal
research activities (i.e. surveys, both qualitative and quantitative) and
evaluations.
3. Being
responsible for the management and development of program databases for each of
the technical component
4. Supervising
data entry including collation into program databases.
5. Take lead
in development of monitoring and evaluation tools for the program.
6. Actively
interrogate databases for discrepancies, errors and missing data in order to
verify the accuracy and validity of the data.
7. Undertake
data analysis relevant to project activities and dissemination at district and
provincial level.
8. Ensure
strengthening and expansion of effective referral system.
9. Support the
program team (Technical leads, Clinical officers, Field officers and M&E
officers) in review of HIV service delivery at the health facility and
community level for timely decision making.
10. Developing
ToRs for research and program consultancies.
11. Capacity
building and mentorship of program staff in Monitoring and Evaluation.
Responsibility 2: Reporting and Documentation
Tasks
1. Review
program achievements against indicator targets with a view to strengthening
reporting as well as decision making.
2. Disseminating
findings from research and evaluations.
3. Take lead
in documentation of lessons learnt and best practices as well as dissemination
on the same.
4. Keep up to
date program related data and reports for reference by the program team as well
as other stakeholders.
5. Provide data
for internal and donor reports as well as internal documentation.
Responsibility 3: Oversee delivery of quality
capacity strengthening of Districts Health Information System (HMIS)
Tasks
1. Undertake
ongoing capacity needs assessments on the districts health management
information systems with a view to identifying gaps for support and mentorship.
2. Develop and
operationalise monthly facility and community monitoring visits that facilitate
improvement in program service delivery.
3. Providing
technical support to the development of district work plans
4. Provide
technical support to the district health records personnel in collation,
analysis, interpretation and utilization of HIV related data and information.
5. Support
strengthening of electronic medical records system in selected health
facilities.
6. Support
strengthening of community based monitoring and evaluation systems.
7. Support
facilitation of learning and sharing of innovative models in information and
knowledge management across facilities and districts.
Responsibility 4: Administrative Support
Tasks
1. Enhance
team work and management cohesion of the program.
2. Effectively
line manage Monitoring and Evaluation Officers.
3. Exercise
efficient management of office operations.
4. Undertake
processing of procurement of goods and services as per CARE Kenya operational
guidelines and standards.
5. Ensure
proper utilization, safety and maintenance of CAREs property and resources.
6. Scrutinize,
confirm and verify all hired services and materials during service delivery to
the project.
7. Confirm and
verify payments for services provided by vendor/suppliers.
Authority
1. Spending
Authority: as per activities approved by Supervisor
2.
Supervision: M&E officers in the program.
Contacts /
Key Relations
a)
Internal: Works closely
with Program and field officers, technical leads for PMTCT & Other
Prevention, Technical Lead, Health Promotion and Community Development
Services, Project Manager, Senior Program Manager, Comprehensive HIV Program,
Program Assistants in supporting development of M&E tools, plans,
reviewing, data quality audits and assessments among others.
Member of the Health Sector M&E department and therefore provides program development support on M&E areas and receives technical support from Sector M&E Coordinator.
Member of the Health Sector M&E department and therefore provides program development support on M&E areas and receives technical support from Sector M&E Coordinator.
b)
External: Head of
M&E team for the comprehensive M&E department and therefore provides
support to health systems strengthening in HMIS, works cordially with members
of the M&E department and HMIS staff under MOH. Provides M&E mentorship
to workers and supports them as need be.
Working Conditions
- Stationed
in Kisii sub office of the program, receives logistical and financial
support during travel to undertake program activities.
- Qualifies
for telephone allowance to enhance communication with health care staff of
the ministries of public health and sanitation and ministry of medical
services and consortium partner staff and CARE staff.
- Other
allowances that are offered as per the approved CARE HR policy.
Skills and qualifications
- Education:
Preferably Masters degree in Monitoring and Impact Evaluation or Public
health, Health Information Management Systems, Project Management with
trainings in Monitoring and Evaluation.
- Experience:
At least five (5) years hands on experience in Monitoring and Evaluation
in Health Programs.
- At
least one formal training in monitoring and evaluation for HIV/AIDS
programs.
- Proficiency
in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Excellent
communication and facilitation skills
- Demonstrable
strong program report writing skills
- Experience
in reporting to PEPFAR will be an added advantage
Job Title: Technical Lead – Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT)
1 Position
Ref: TL- PMTCT/03/2016
Department / Project: Comprehensive HIV Care / Chagua Maisha
Supervisor: Senior Program Manager
Location / Duty Station: Kisii
County
Grade: H
Job Summary & Purpose:
- Reporting to the Senior Program Manager, the
Technical Lead - PMTCT will serve as the leading technical manager and
advisor for the project and is responsible for ensuring effective delivery
and performance of the program in this thematic area, ensuring linkages to
PMTCT as well as HIV care and treatment, and TB/HIV linkages.
- The Technical Lead - PMTCT will serve as the
leading technical manager and advisor for the project and is responsible
for ensuring effective delivery and performance of the program in this
thematic area, ensuring linkages to PMTCT as well as HIV care and
treatment, and TB/HIV linkages.
- The holder of the position is part of the
program leadership team under the Program Technical Lead.
- Will work with other technical leads to
support coherent and fully integrated and harmonized program
- Working with Technical Leads for PITC/other
prevention; and care/treatment, offer technical leadership, mentorship and
supervision of program officers who will be responsible for mentorship of
clinical staff in the health facilities.
- Will also provide significant support to the
Technical Lead Health Promotion in the development of a health promotion
strategy that recognizes the prevention needs of beneficiary clients and
community and that the education delivery methodologies ensure quality of
information shared for HIV risk reduction. The success of this position
will be measured by the number of clients that receive HIV prevention
services against expected clients for all prevention services, based on
work load and population-level targets; as well as linkages to care and
treatment services, including TB/HIV services
- Will ensure program quality and delivery is in
line with national guidelines and standards and ensure Chagua Maisha
delivers optimal PMTCT services to achieve reduction of MTCT to less than
5%, while keeping their mothers alive
- The holder will technically supervise program
officers in PMTCT services, while ensuring they are mentored and deliver
quality mentorship to county health services teams and MOH as required of
them.
- The holder will also take charge of one or
more Sub counties as a Sub County Technical Lead
Responsibilities and Tasks
Responsibility 1: Overseeing the overall strategic direction,
relevance, coverage, quality and coherence of PMTCT interventions implemented
within the comprehensive program.
Tasks
1.
Responsible for program quality for
PMTCT including services delivery, program data, technical quality of trainings
among others
2.
Enhance the development and
implementation of a holistic and intergrated program that will demonstrate an
increase in the numbers of clients accessing PMTCT services.
3.
Provide technical guidance,
mentorship and support to MOH and partner program staff to implement PMTCT
initiatives that will prevent the transmision of HIV from infected mothers to
infants
4.
In charge of developing and
continuous review of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for PMTCT; training
and roll out of guidelines to MOH staff with support, leadership and mentorship
support of the Senior Technical Lead.
5.
Provides management support to the
Senior Technical Lead in addressing technical review comments and weaknesses
identified in delivery of PMTCT services in the program
Responsibility 2: To support the provision and coordination of
capacity building efforts aimed at improving quality and expansion of PMTCT
services
Tasks:
1.
Conduct a capacity assessment of all
health facilities within the project area
2.
Organize and co-ordinate various
trainings to increase the capacity of health providers to provide quality HIV
services
3.
Ensure PMTCT services are being
offered according to the set national standards
4.
Provide mentorship and coaching for
program officers to enable them mentor health facility staff on provision of
HIV services
5.
Oversee printing and distribution of
job aids and algorithms to all supported health facilities
Responsibility 3: Scale up and stregthen PMTCT interventions
including referal for care and treatment within facilities and in referal sites
Tasks:
1.
Ensure regular supplies of test kits,
OI drugs and other commodities
2.
Establish and strengthen laboratory
networks for EID and CD4 to enhance continuum of care of clients within the
program
3.
Scale up EID and pediatric care to
those eligible ensuring demonstrable increase in numbers of children undergoing
EID
4.
Develop and maintain high standards
of program quality in line with national guidelines
5.
Develop and strengthen service level
referal and community-facility referall mechanisms that ensure smooth
transition of PMTCT, PITC, EID clients to provision of care, treatment and
support for HIV positive mothers and children at all PMTCT sites.
6.
Work with technical lead – Health
Promotion and Community Development services in areas of health education and
promotion activities to ensure BCC messages are appropriate to address
prevention needs of the beneficiaries; developing and leading the project team
in implementing effective strategies that reduce socio-cultural impediments to
PMTCT service delivery such as male involment in PMTCT service interventions
7.
Liaise with Technical Lead- Care and
treatment to ensure continuum of care for clients within the project sites
Responsibility 4: Sub-county (District Team Leadership) and staff
supervision and mentorship
Tasks:
1.
The TL will be assigned one Sub
County within Kisii County to fully coordinate program implementation,
management and reporting.
2.
Specifically the TL will be the
overall manager in charge of sub-county team and therefore direct staff
management and supervision.
3.
Ensure coordinated implementation of
program activities in the Sub county such as Overall Coordination of program
work
4.
Act as CAREs Contact person for the
Sub County
5.
Coordinate technical support from
other technical leads to the Sub County
6.
In –charge of sub county sub grants
component in all aspects related to priority setting, planning and budgeting,
joint planning and review of planned activities, ensuring scope of work is
timely implemented, ensuring performance framework is achieved and reported on,
ensuring timely monthly and quarterly reporting, ensuring funds are utilized
effectively and transparently and in agreed upon priorities and within budget
lines; ensuring prior approvals are sought and approved by SPM before funds are
diverted and that documentation is maintained for future reference.
7.
Identifies and ensures good working
relationship with other partners in the Sub County
8.
Primarily supervise all staff in the
Sub County (s) administratively, offer mentorship and sub grants management
support. These include Program Officers, Field Officers and M&E officers.
9.
Working closely with other TLs,
timely appraise district teams on sub county level of performance for technical
areas they are directly in-charge of; appraise Program Officers annually and
consistency provision of feedback on performance to staff during implementation
10.
Working closely with other TLs,
review Program staffs’ Individual Operating Plans and providing support during
implementation of services.
11.
Mentorship of all program staff and
facility based staff in areas of HIV prevention
12.
Provide and encourage mentoring,
coaching, team building and training opportunities at all levels of the
program.
13.
In charge of developing costed work
plan and its management of activities and budgets in the delivery of
PMTCTactivities of the program
14.
Ensure effective resource management
in the PMTCT program area
Responsibility 5: Reporting, documentation, monitoring and evaluation
Tasks
1.
Generate program reports on the
technical scope on monthly basis and as required by CARE and CDC; as well as
for county level reporting and partnership engagements.
2.
Provides support to Project Team
Leader and M&E Coordinator and officers in the development of a coherent
program management plan which incorporates all indicators for measuring
progress of prevention services and their contribution to HIV care and
treatment interventions
3.
3. Supports effective coordination
and timely collection and review of data for prevention services
4.
Jointly with others undertakes data
quality audit for the PMTCT components of the program and supports analysis to
inform gaps in uptake of continuum of services for care and treatment services
including HIV/TB integration
5.
Supports mentorship of HMIS staff to
ensure timely and accurate recording of data from prevention services
6.
Support timely and quality reporting
and sharing lessons learnt and best practices within the coverage of the
comprehensive program, CARE and its partners, MOH and its partners and
community stakeholders.
7.
Provides support to Project Team
Leader and M&E Manager and officers in the development of a coherent
program management plan which incorporates all indicators for measuring
progress of PMTCT services and their contribution to HIV care and treatment
interventions
8.
Supports effective coordination and
timely collection and review of data for PMTCT services
9.
Jointly with others undertakes data
quality audit for the PMTCT components of the program and supports analysis to
inform gaps in uptake of continuum of services for care and treatment services
including HIV/TB integration
10.
Supports mentorship of HMIS staff to
ensure timely and accurate recording of data from prevention services
11.
Support timely and quality reporting
and sharing lessons learnt and best practices within the coverage of the
comprehensive program, CARE and its partners, MOH and its partners and
community stakeholders.
Responsibility 6: Support to CARE’s management systems and other
duties
Tasks
1.
Represent CARE in forums, meetings
and community engagement
2.
Deliver program in line with CARE’s
programming principles, policies and systems ensuring good stewardship of
resources
3.
Any other duties assigned by the
Senior Technical Lead
Authority:
1.
Spending Authority: 400,000 on
PMTCT/PITC and other prevention budget
2.
Supervision: The position will
primarily supervise 3 staff cadres (Program officer, M&E officer and Field
Officer) in the assigned Sub County (s). The position will also offer technical
supervision and mentorship on PMTCT to all Program Officers across the program
directly and Field Officers and M/E Officers indirectly, across the program.
She will jointly appraise them on this scope of work alongside other TLs.
3.
Decision Making: Key decision making
with the SPM, and Kisii SMT regarding program implementation as approved by the
policy
Contacts / Key Relationships
a) External
- Government of Kenya Ministries of Public
Health and Sanitation, Ministry of Medical Services at District level
(DHMTs for Kisii in County) and PHMT for Nyanza
- Centers’ for Disease Control and Prevention
Technical Advisors
- Various health & HIV stakeholders within
the project area
b) Internal
- Technical Lead-HIV Care and Treatment and
Technical Lead–Health Promotion and Community Development Services,
Technical Lead-PITC, PHDP and other Prevention, Laboratory Coordinator,
Pharmacy Coordinator, as well as the M and E Coordinator
- Program Manager, and the Finance and Grants
Coordinator
- Member of the Senior Management Team of CARE
International in Kenya which includes the Country Director, Assistant
Country Director Programs, Deputy Director Finance and Administrative
Services while seeking support from the various country office support
units: Finance, IT, Administration/ procurement, internal audit/compliance
and Human Resources.
Working Conditions
- Stationed in Kisii sub office of the program;
receives logistical and financial support during travel to undertake
program activities.
- Qualifies for telephone allowance to enhance
communication with health care staff of the Ministries of Public Health
and Sanitation and Ministry of Medical Services and consortium partner
staff and CARE staff.
Qualifications
Education: Medical Doctor (MB, ChB) (primary) or advanced
Nursing, and Clinical Medicine training coupled with over 5 years of relevant
experience in HIV care and treatment including PMTCT programs.
Experience: At
least Three (3) years of work experience in HIV and AIDS programs. Experience
in managing PEPFAR programs will be an added advantage.
Experience in HIV PMTCT programs,
reproductive health and BCC programs essential
Certificates: short courses training in HIV/AIDS-related areas
like HTC, PHDP, ART (adults and children), TB/HIV, commodity management, PMTCT,
reproductive health; etc
Competencies:
- Proficient in the various computer packages
- Ability to prioritize work according to
importance and deadlines
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally
and in writing
- Able to work effectively and efficiently as
part of a team.
How to Apply
If you feel you meet the requirements for this position, send your application letter indicating the reference number, title of the position along with an updated CV with email and telephone contacts of three professional referees to:
If you feel you meet the requirements for this position, send your application letter indicating the reference number, title of the position along with an updated CV with email and telephone contacts of three professional referees to:
The Human Resources & Development
Manager,
CARE International in Kenya,
Email: Vacancies@care.or.ke
Kindly do not attach any
certificates/scanned documents to your application
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
CARE is an equal opportunity employer and promotes gender equity.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
CARE is an equal opportunity employer and promotes gender equity.
Canvassing will lead to automatic
disqualification.
CARE International in Kenya does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. (Application, interview, meeting, processing, training or any other fees).
N.B) The interested applicants must indicate their expected remuneration level.
CARE International in Kenya does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. (Application, interview, meeting, processing, training or any other fees).
N.B) The interested applicants must indicate their expected remuneration level.
