Ipas, an international NGO with a
focus on sexual reproductive health and rights invites applications from
suitable applicants for the following position based in Nairobi:
Senior Advisor I, Policy
This is a full-time position based in
Nairobi and is available for an immediate start.
Key Responsibilities:
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Conceptualizes programmatic
activities aimed at improving the policy environment through engaging with key
policy makers and other stakeholders
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Provides guidance in planning and
budgeting for policy activities, monitors the implementation of activities and
planned results; may monitor grants as well
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In coordination with other office
staff, provides policy technical guidance as needed for national policy
activities and global policy unit
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Drafts white papers and policy briefs
for influencing policy and increasing access to safe abortion services
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Builds and nurtures existing networks
and partnerships of organizations and institutions to support Ipas’ mission and
legal changes on abortion
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Writes and submits Ipas technical
statements, papers, and reports to the United Nations and regional
policy-making bodies
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Prepares presentations and papers for
conferences and workshops; reviews other documents for publication by Ipas
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Supports fundraising initiatives for
policy activities by contributing to donor proposals and preparation or review
of donor report
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Monitors the legal environment for
abortion in Africa and identifies opportunities for intervention
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Represents the organization at
various national, regional and international meetings to ensure incorporation
of Ipas objectives into the agenda for discussion.
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Carries out other tasks to support
Ipas Kenya efforts
Requirements for the position
include:
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Advanced degree in relevant field
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8+ years of experience in program
planning and management, sexual and reproductive health and rights
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Ability to work successfully in a
cross-cultural, team-based, global environment
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Demonstrated ability in Microsoft
Office tools
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Well-organized, with ability to track
multiple projects and deadlines
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Ability to work successfully in a
cross-cultural, team-based, global environment
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Excellent written and verbal English
language skills
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Ability to travel approximately 25%
How to Apply
All applicants must CLICK HERE to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
All applicants must CLICK HERE to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
Office Assistant / Associate I
This is a full-time position based in
Kisumu and is available for an immediate start.
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With guidance from the supervisor and
other team members, develops correspondence (reports, letters and other
documents) intended for both external and internal audiences and photocopies
documentation as needed
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Supports the coordination of team
meetings and external meetings, and assists with the development of work plans
to carry out project-related tasks
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Assists in the packaging and
disbursement of project related materials to the field office.
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Assists with the preparation of
travel arrangements and Visas for Ipas office staff and submits documentation
for review
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Receives goods and materials from
suppliers, liaises with the specific lead to ensure accuracy as per the order
documents and enters in the inventory.
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Facilitate banking’s as directed by
the finance associate and collection of mails from the post office.
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Ensure statutory payment/checks are
delivered to the respective Government agencies.
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Works with the designated program
associate to oversee the work of the contracted office cleaners so as to ensure
general office cleanliness.
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Facilitates conferences by booking
travel arrangements and hotel accommodations, prepares materials as necessary
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Monitors kitchen stock level and
ensure timely replenishment.
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Maintains office supplies inventory
and liaise with the relevant persons where replenishment is needed.
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Provide administrative assistance to
technical leads within their area of responsibility- finance, health system,
R&E and/or policy.
Requirements for the position
include:
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High School diploma
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2 years general administrative or
office support experience (see comments)
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Experience with use of databases
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Well-organized, with ability to track
multiple projects and deadlines
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Ability to work successfully in a
cross-cultural, team-based, global environment
·
Excellent written and verbal English
language skills
How to Apply
All applicants must CLICK HERE to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
All applicants must CLICK HERE to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
Associate II,
Administration
This is a full-time position based in Kisumu and is available for an immediate start.
This is a full-time position based in Kisumu and is available for an immediate start.
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Process payment requests and invoices
from in-house personnel
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Review requests for appropriate
authorization, account coding and amounts
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Prepare petty cash voucher
statements, arrange replenishment and maintain petty cash fund
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Analyzes travel expense reports,
reviews and organizes subcontracts/grants financial documents, and follows up
with staff to retire their staff advances and hotel pre-payments
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Coordinates team meetings and
external meetings, develops workplans to carry out project-related tasks, and
manages activities agendas
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Maintain office supplies and
replenish as needed
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Performs routine data entry tasks as
required by leadership
Requirements for the position include:
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High School diploma
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1 – 2 years general administrative or
office support experience
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Experience with use of databases
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Well-organized, with ability to track
multiple projects and deadlines
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Ability to work successfully in a
cross-cultural, team-based, global environment
·
Excellent written and verbal English
language skills
How to Apply
All applicants must CLICK HERE to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
All applicants must CLICK HERE to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
Procurement Advisor II
This is a full-time position based in
Nairobi and is available for an immediate start.
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Ensures all procurement of office
supplies and equipment are made per Ipas’ standard operating procedures
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Monitors stock level and ensure
timely replenishment
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Reviews payment request forms for
completeness and accuracy
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Process visa applications
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Ensure statutory payment and/or
checks are delivered to the respective Government agencies
Requirements for the position
include:
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Bachelor’s degree in Business
Administration or related field.
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3-4 years’ experience in Logistics,
office management, administrative support role or in basic financial procedures
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Strong computer skills
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Must be able to use and maintain data
in a donor database
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Working knowledge of one or more
accounting software package
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Working knowledge of purchasing and
supply procedures
How to Apply
All applicants must CLICK HERE to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
All applicants must CLICK HERE to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
Operations Advisor II
This is a full-time position based in
Kisumu and is available for an immediate start.
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Monitor, manage and improve the
efficiency of support services such as office infrastructure, human capital and
human resources, field deployment; security; IT and virtual communications
infrastructure and Office Service.
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Facilitate coordination and
communication between support functions.
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Oversee Field Office insurance policies
and ensure health and safety requirements are met
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Lead and complete work in the
operational categories, including but not limited to providing support on HR
administration standards, including compliance with country-specific employment
rules and regulations;
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Support filed office project teams on
operations and compliance with policies and procedures.
Requirements for the position
include:
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3-5 years of relevant work experience
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Bachelor’s degree in related field;
Master’s degree in related field preferred.
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Strong operations background and
hands-on, systems- and process-oriented approach;
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Experience managing large,
donor-funded international projects;
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Working knowledge of basic regulatory
and compliance regulations in Kenya
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Experience in the establishment and
administration of field operations
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Experience with security management
and oversight;
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Excellent computer skills and
proficient in excel, word, outlook, and access
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Excellent communication skills both
verbal and written
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Excellent interpersonal skills and a
collaborative management style.
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A demonstrated commitment to high
professional ethical standards and a diverse workplace
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Excels at operating in an fast pace,
community environment
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Must be able to think and act with a
high degree of independence, bringing solutions for approval rather than
waiting for guidance from senior management
How to Apply
All applicants must CLICK HERE to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
All applicants must CLICK HERE to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
Health Systems Advisor II
This is a full-time position based in
Nairobi and is available for an immediate start.
Key Responsibilities:
Providing Technical Assistance for
Increased Access to CAC Services:
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Supports assigned county training and
service delivery resources as needed;
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Provides leadership and technical
assistance in accordance with Ipas global and Africa Alliance work plan.
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Identifies, assesses and enters into
partnership with training institutions, service delivery sites, government and
NGOs to accomplish program goals
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Manages the partnership and provides
required technical assistance to enhance access to SRH and CAC to women and
young girls.
Training & Service Delivery:
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Identifies plans and supports
training for appropriate levels of health care staff.
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Provides trainee mentorship and
supportive supervision and other technical support (communication, training,
equipping and IEC materials) to service delivery sites to ensure provision of
high quality care and increased utilization of services.
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Responsible for identifying
consultants as appropriate and contributes to consultant management that
includes developing consultant plans, developing scopes of work, identifying,
hiring and supervising clinical and non-clinical consultants.
Coordination
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Coordinates training and service
delivery and other projects undertaken by Ipas as assigned.
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Ensures that there is synergy between
project activities, ensures optimal utilization of organizational resources
through a properly coordinated program.
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Coordinate with county health
management teams, health facility managers and service providers to ensure
operationalization and implementation of MOUs between Ipas and the County
Health management teams and partners.
Program Monitoring:
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Responsible for tracking results
against benchmarks set for each program/project implemented in the counties.
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Provides programmatic support as
required to Ipas intervention sites and providers to ensure provision of
quality comprehensive abortion care services.
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Supervises service data entry into the
organizational database.
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Ensures adherence to the Ipas Global
Monitoring tool guidance for Ipas programs as well as Quality of Care in
service delivery.
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Contributes to management of the
health systems budget for the Alliance and accountability.
Writing and Reporting:
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Works with appropriate staff and
partners to develop and write reports, studies, and presentations related to
Ipas training and service delivery improvement efforts; including information
for donor documents.
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Submit periodic progress reports from
their work plan implementation to the senior health systems advisor as
indicated.
Requirements for the position
include:
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Bachelor’s degree in Medicine or
Bachelor degree in Nursing.
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7 years’ experience in implementing
sexual and reproductive health programs at field and managerial level, with
special emphasis on abortion care programs and quality assurance systems.
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Experience in working with the
ministry of health at national / county level.
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Experience in in -service training
and good knowledge of adult training techniques
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Strong communications and
presentations skills
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Culturally sensitive and ability to
develop harmonious working relationship with other staff from a variety of
disciplines as well as partners.
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Strong computer skills
How to Apply
All applicants must CLICK HERE to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
All applicants must CLICK HERE to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
Research and Evaluation Associate III
This is a full-time position based in
Nairobi and another in Kisumu and is available for an immediate start.
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Carry out data entry, cleaning,
analysis, posting and reporting for M&E data for their assigned countries,
and for special studies and research for those countries in compliance with
published Ipas R&E Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Ipas global
M&E system requirements, and standards for data quality.
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Ensures all M&E data are
processed, cleaned and analyzed in a timely manner and works with in-country
teams to keep M&E databases up to date
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Completes cleaning and analysis of
health systems program monitoring data
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Ensures all site and provider data is
entered in the relevant database on a quarterly basis
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Prepare data tables and other data
needed for country proposals and reports.
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Communicate with country-based
counterparts to verify and validate all data files for M&E, special studies
and research.
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Work with Senior Advisor to review
data and meet deadlines.
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Communicate with Programs Units as
requested by Senior Advisor for M&E.
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Analyzes data for donor reports and
completes donor tables for reporting,
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Works with regional support and
in-country teams on program evaluations and original research through data
collection tool development, qualitative and quantitative data analysis,
drafting narrative for reports, creating tables and figures, and drafting
materials for research dissemination
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Participate in R&E country staff
meetings and retreats.
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Prepare annual personnel objectives
and participate in semi-annual review processes.
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Prepare travel documents (travel
authorizations, trip expense reports, etc.)
Requirements for the position
include:
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Bachelor’s degree in
Statistics/mathematics or health related field
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1-3 years of experience in research
and evaluation of reproductive health programs
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Well-organized, with ability to track
multiple projects and deadlines
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Ability to work successfully in a
cross-cultural, team-based, global environment
·
Excellent written and verbal English
language skills
How to Apply
All applicants must CLICK HERE for KISUMU vacancy and mustCLICK HERE for NAIROBI vacancy to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
All applicants must CLICK HERE for KISUMU vacancy and mustCLICK HERE for NAIROBI vacancy to submit their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
Research and Evaluation Advisor II
This is a full-time position based in
Kisumu and is available for an immediate start.
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Conducts special studies and research
activities in their country of responsibility and provides technical and
administrative support to the design, data collection, statistical analysis and
reporting of these projects
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Ensures that relevant data across all
areas of programs is collected, entered in appropriate tools, and analyzed in
order to share data trends with Ipas NC Global and influence decision making on
program planning
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Participates in the creation of
initial drafts of project reports, timelines, plans of work, and other related
documents, and tracks Research and & Evaluation unit deadlines
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Maintains regular communication with
R&E staff in NC Global to stay up-todate on R&E objectives and
guidelines, make sure their in-country results align, and M&E standards are
being achieved
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Spearheads the development and
revision of data collection tools and reporting formats and forms in their
country-office
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Oversees the implementation of
M&E systems and databases in their country office with guidance from
R&E staff in NC Global
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Supports program improvement by
ensuring that data is collected, entered and cleaned properly
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Oversees completion and verification
of data collected on Ipas supported facilities, service sites and interventions
to ensure data quality
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Shares M&E results and research
findings to partners and external audiences, facilitating utilization of
findings for program assessment and decision making on process and impact
indicators of plans and programs by R&E headquarters staff
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Aids in the dissemination and
presentation of study and research results and lessons learned
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Collaborates with other Ipas units
and country programs to achieve overall agency objectives
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Communicates feedback to NC Global
R&E staff on M&E implementation issues in their country-office,
supporting the development, testing, and roll out of Terra
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Assists the Development unit in
writing reports and proposals for donors and government offices
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Reviews and develops expense reports,
requests checks and receipts, and collaborates with the Finance unit
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May oversee the work of M&E
consultants and manage contracts with R&E consulting firms
Requirements for the position
include:
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Bachelor’s degree required; Advance
degree preferred
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5 - 7 years of related experience in
research and evaluation required, preferably in reproductive health programs
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2 or more years of extensive
experience in high level data analysis and supervising data collection systems
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Supervisory role and management
experience
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Well-organized, with ability to track
multiple projects and deadline
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Ability to work successfully in a
cross-cultural, team-based, global environment
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Excellent written and verbal English
language skills
How to Apply
All applicants must CLICK HERE to submit
their application through Ipas’ career website by 10th July 2015
