Evaluation
Research Position
Ref: FP/RH BPs
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to conducting high quality and policy relevant research on population, health, education and development issues facing sub-Saharan Africa.
APHRC seeks to recruit a Senior Lead for Strategic Planning & Evaluation to lead a five-year (2011-2016) program entitled “Evidence to Action for Strengthened Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services for Women and Girls (E2A)”, with Pathfinder International as the prime partner.
The position is based at APHRC’s offices in Nairobi, Kenya.Ref: FP/RH BPs
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to conducting high quality and policy relevant research on population, health, education and development issues facing sub-Saharan Africa.
APHRC seeks to recruit a Senior Lead for Strategic Planning & Evaluation to lead a five-year (2011-2016) program entitled “Evidence to Action for Strengthened Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services for Women and Girls (E2A)”, with Pathfinder International as the prime partner.
Project Overview: E2A’s ultimate goal is to reduce unmet need for family planning (and thereby, unintended pregnancies), by enabling women and girls to make - and act on - informed decisions about their reproductive lives at all stages of the life cycle.
It will work at the global, country and community/facility levels to achieve three main objectives:
1) Increase global support for the use of FP/RH evidence-based best practices (BPs) to strengthen service delivery;
2) Synthesize and disseminate knowledge about the use of FP/RH BPs to strengthen service delivery; and
3) Apply and scale up FP/RH
BPs in ways that strengthen service delivery.
Position Purpose: In collaboration with, and reporting to, the Program Leader at APHRC and the E2A’s M&E Director in the project office in Washington, DC, the Senior Lead for Strategic Planning & Evaluation is the project’s focal person at APHRC.
Her/his primary responsibility is to:
- Organize,
facilitate or conduct literature reviews as well as operations, evaluation
and implementation research around FP/RH BPs;
- Document
and disseminate reviews, case studies and other syntheses that build
knowledge on FP/RH BPs; and Contribute to advocacy activities at the
global, regional and country levels.
- S/he
also supports the design and implementation of the project’s M&E plan,
data collection and data systems to measure overall project performance
against established goals and objectives.
- S/he
coordinates the requests and support needs from in-country partners for
research, evaluation and documentation of BPs, and with guidance from the
E2A Director of M&E, ensure that the needs are timely and adequately
met.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct
literature and systematic reviews on FP/RH BPs, and produce synthesis for
use in the project’s activities at the global, country or local levels;
- Plan,
design and implement or facilitate operations, evaluation and
implementation research on FP/RH BPs in the Africa region.
- Support
the project’s dissemination, communication and advocacy activities;
- Contribute
to the development and implementation of the project’s Performance
Monitoring and Evaluation Plan, and the production of quarterly reports to
USAID;
- Oversee,
when applicable, the work of in-country partners’ M&E related staff,
and coordinate the implementation of quality control measures;
- Provide
technical assistance to in-country partners on research, evaluation and
documentation of best practices, among others;
Qualifications and Experience
- PhD
in Demography, Statistics, Public Health, social sciences or related
discipline;
- At
least six years of experience in monitoring and evaluating health and
development projects, and health service delivery in particular;
- Strong
writing skills and good record of publications on population, family
planning and reproductive health in developing countries, with
demonstrated ability to conduct systematic reviews;
- Good
experience in designing and conducting impact evaluation, and operations
and interventions research;
- Proven
ability to work effectively with various constituencies including funding agencies and
international partners, host country government agencies, and other
national and local stakeholders and decision-makers;
- Strong
quantitative skills and extensive familiarity with MS Office (Word, Excel,
PowerPoint) and Statistical Packages (STATA or SPSS);
- Availability
to travel internationally about 30-40% of time.
or to:
The Human Resources Officer
African Population and Health Research Center
P.O. Box 10787 – 00100 GPO, Nairobi
Website: www.aphrc.org
Please, indicate Evaluation Research Position – FP/RH BPs on the subject line of the email or on the envelope.
The position comes with an attractive, internationally competitive remuneration package including employer paid medical, travel, life insurance cover and retirement benefits.
Allowances toward in-relocation, home leave travel and dependants’ education, are provided.
Preference will be given to nationals of sub-Saharan African countries, and females are particularly encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed candidates will be notified.
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