Background: The
USAID-funded PMI AIRS (Africa Indoor Residual Spraying 2) Project led by Abt
Associates supports the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), as well as USAID
Missions and Bureaus with malaria programs outside the PMI focus countries, in
planning and implementing IRS programs with the overall goal of reducing the
burden of malaria in Africa by enhancing USAID’s ability to implement IRS
programs on the ground through cost-effective commodities procurement and
logistics systems, access to technical expertise, and implementation of IRS in
countries affected by malaria.
The PMI AIRS Kenya Project seeks
candidates for the USAID-funded PMI AIRS (Africa Indoor Residual Spraying 2)
Project based in Kisumu, Kenya in the following position:-
Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Manager
Specific duties and responsibilities include the following:
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Lead the needs assessments and
baseline surveys/data collection process prior to IRS campaigns.
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Lead establishment of routine M&E
systems to support tracking of IRS program activities, progress, and
performance.
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Improve programmatic monitoring
efforts through managing the data collection of routine spray activities from
county-based spray teams and reporting the data for internal and client use.
·
Design, review and test M&E tools
for reporting formats and data collection.
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Ensure appropriate skills are
maintained with the national and county IRS staff through focused trainings for
continued maintenance of the established M&E tracking systems.
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Track and report data on all project
indicators to the Abt Home Office, PMI/Kenya and PMI/Washington. This includes
regular updating of the project’s official Monitoring and Evaluation Plan.
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Prepare performance monitoring plans,
including developing and defining program indicators and sources of data, as
well as annual reports and other project documents.
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Conduct periodic internal Data
Quality Assessments and prepare the project for possible external Data Quality
Audits to ensure validity, integrity, precision, reliability and timeliness of
all performance data, identifying gaps and suggesting corrective actions on
time.
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The position requires frequent travel
to IRS implementing counties and field sites for routine monitoring, program
supervision, and support.
Qualification requirements include the following:
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Masters Degree in a relevant social
science field, such as Public Health/Environmental health, Community Health, or
Statistics.
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At least six (6) years of relevant
professional experience in program monitoring and evaluation and in research,
with previous IRS or other malaria program experience desirable.
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Experience in MS Access, GIS
applications; and GPS measurement data collection desirable.
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Experience and familiarity with USAID
program monitoring and evaluation, and performance monitoring.
·
Strong analytic and quantitative
database management skills, budgeting and report writing.
·
English language fluency.
For
more information on the specific duties and responsibilities and qualification
requirements for the above positions, please visit our careers page on www.abtassociates.com
To Apply
Interested
candidates are encouraged to visit the careers page on www.abtassociates.com and apply online or send a cover
letter and CV to Kenya_IRSJobs@abtassoc.com with the title of the position
being applied in e-mail subject line e.g. “Monitoring & Evaluation
(M&E) Manager” by COB November 18th, 2016.
Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
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