The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. The IRC's global 2020 strategy commits our organization to creating measurable, meaningful change in the lives of people we serve, focusing on outcomes linked to their health, safety, power, education, and economic wellbeing. The IRC has worked in Liberia since 1996 and is one of the largest humanitarian actors in the country. Guided by its 2015 - 2020 Strategic Action Plan, the IRC implements innovative health and women and children protection projects in Nimba, Lofa, Bong, Montserrado, Maryland, River Gee, Grand Bassa, and Margibi counties.
Scope of Work
The IRC has entered into a cooperative agreement with USAID to implement the Partnerships for Advancing Community-Based Services (PACS) project in Liberia. The PACS project is a five year, $31.8 million dollar consortium consisting of IRC, Population Services International and Global Communities. The goal of PACS is to create sustainable country ownership of community-based health, social welfare, and WASH services through technical assistance and capacity building of relevant ministries and local civil society organizations.
PACS is working in USAID's six priority counties, Lofa, Bong, Nimba, Margibi, Grand Bassa, and Monsterrado. PACS staff work alongside county officials, building their capacity to effectively supervise and coordinate community-based health, social welfare, and WASH services.
The IRC is seeking a Senior Advisor for Monitoring and Evaluation for the PACS project. The Senior Advisor for M&E will lead the monitoring and measurement of PACS progress and impact, feed these data back into the design and adjustment of PACS implementation, be a technical resource for the MoH as well as community-based organizations providing health, social welfare, and WASH services, and assure that PACS M&E systems and procedures contribute to the IRC Liberia's goal of becoming of an outcomes-driven and evidence-based organization.
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Assuring quality measurement of progress, data-driven decision-making, and achievement of outcomes in ministry and civil-society partners
- Provide leadership and facilitation in the development of national and county level M&E plans in the areas of community health, environmental health/WASH and other components as deemed appropriate;
- Lead and coordinate with the MoH Health Management Information System, M&E Unit, and Management Sciences for Health in the finalization of Community-Based Information tools and support technically in development of Community- Based Information System (CBIS) in DHIS 2.0;
- Work with PACS Partnership staff to assure that sub-grantees' or ministry partners' capacity building strategies promote a culture of learning through systematic analysis of and reflection on project data;
- Collaborate with the MOH/CHT and project team to identify data management challenges, provide feedback through regular M&E meeting, and improve the data management, collection and analysis tools and timelines;
- Lead the PACS consortium in sharing program data on a quarterly basis in appropriate for a (e.g. ministry coordination meetings);
- Model best practices in knowledge management for M&E to PACS partners;
- Coordinate and participate pro-actively in the development and implementation of training materials and conduct trainings as necessary;
- Provide regular supervision to project staff and contribute to capacity building of the staff in terms of being results-oriented and better equipped to achieve, measure and report meaningful results.
Assure that the PACS project clearly articulates the outputs and outcomes it seeks, can measure progress against these outputs and outcomes, and adapt its implementation as needed in light of the data
- Assure that the PACS project's monitoring and evaluation plan, system, tools, budget, database, and indicator matrix are up to date, technically sound, adequately resourced, and able to meet the needs of the project;
- Assure that the PACS Consortium uses appropriate tools to collect and report quality PACS data;
- Monitor the quality and completeness of the data and propose solutions to data problems if and when they arise and conduct data quality assurance using appropriate tools once in a quarter in the selected communities;
- Compile, analyze and disseminate data from each of the project technical areas and support the project Technical Team in presenting recommendations to the Chief of Party for improvements in project implementation;
- Assist Chief of Party and Deputy Chief of Party in the production of weekly, bi-weekly updates, periodic newsletters, fact sheets, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports;
- Represent the project on monitoring and evaluation to stakeholders, including to government partners- MOH/CHT, USAID and consortium partners;
- Collaborate with Technical Unit or External Evaluators where necessary, and lead the design, implementation, and analysis the program baseline, mid-line, and endline evaluations;
Support the IRC Liberia's shift to being an outcomes-driven, evidence-based organization
- Align PACS measurement approaches with IRC global measurement guidance as possible;
- Contribute to the IRC Liberia's Strategic Action Plan 2015-2020 measurement goals;
- Collaborate with non-PACS IRC measurement staff
Requirements:
- At least 7 years' of relevant experience in designing and leading complex M&E programs;
- Master's degree in a relevant field;
- Demonstrated ability to lead large, distributed teams of M&E staff in the collection, analysis, interpretation, and application of quality implementation and outcomes data;
- Demonstrated ability to work with a wide variety of partners (governmental and civil society) to build their capacity to measure progress and outcomes over time;
- Demonstrated ability to audit the quality of data and address data quality issues;
- Experience using DHIS to collect, store, analyze, and present data;
- Excellent teamwork including abilities to coordinate well with diverse individuals and teams and to negotiate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve results;
- Strong written, oral, and non-verbal communication skills;
- Fluency in English is required.
- Familiarity with USAID cooperative agreement reporting standards and previous work experience in Liberia preferred.
HOW TO APPLY:
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