VACANCY – MONITORING, EVALUATION AND RESEARCH OFFICER
The African Population
and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an African-led and Africa-based
international research institution headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. APHRC
conducts policy-relevant research on population, health, education,
urbanization and related development issues in sub-Saharan Africa.
APHRC seeks Monitoring, Evaluation and Research (MER) Officer who will support the corporate Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) function. S/he will also support an upcoming project on scaling sexual and reproductive health (SRH) solutions, where the Center will be providing Monitoring and Evaluation oversight and conducting policy implementation reviews and situational analysis.
Key Responsibilities
Corporate Monitoring and
Evaluation
- Conduct
routine data collection and entry for the Strategic Plan indicators;
- Ensure complete,
accurate, clean and consistent data is collected, shared for analysis, and
reporting;
- Support
the development of quarterly and annual monitoring and evaluation
performance review reports;
- Continuously
enter data to ensure that data in the corporate M&E Platform (DHIS2)
is up to date, analyze and aggregate the progress on data visualizations;
- Support
in the development and maintenance of the M&E platform;
- Ensure
proper filing of M&E documents including questionnaires, monitoring
reports, datasets among others;
- Participate
in regular data verification and quality assessment exercises to assess
the quality of data reported and address any anomalies identified; and
- With
guidance from the M&E Officer, support capacity-building activities
for staff when needed.
Scaling Sexual
Reproductive Health (SRH) Solutions project
The MER Officer will
work closely with the M&E Specialist and M&E Officer to achieve project
deliverables. S/he will:
- Conduct
data collection and reporting using monitoring tools to track project
indicators as per the project M&E framework;
- Support
in the development of the monthly project progress reports towards the
achievement of project objectives;
- Support
the project team in the preliminary literature reviews and quantitative
and qualitative analysis of data as needed;
- Assist
and support fieldwork activities for the project such as data collection,
managing system arising issues, security and workflow, linking
questionnaires and providing offline support;
- Support
the secondary data collection activities; and
- Support
the M&E officer in other day-to-day M&E tasks that may arise.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s
degree in Statistics, Social Sciences, Public Health, Monitoring and
Evaluation, Epidemiology or other relevant fields.
- 2
-4 years of relevant working experience in field-level data collection of
quantitative and qualitative data for M&E, DQAs, health facility
assessment and/or research.
- Competencies
in using computer packages including MS Word and Excel.
- Demonstrated
experience in conducting quality checks during quantitative and
qualitative data collection and data entry using electronic tools.
- Demonstrated
experience and knowledge in quantitative and qualitative data cleaning and
analysis and in drafting reports of M&E and research results.
Preferred demonstrable skills
- Experience
in monitoring and evaluation concepts and tools.
- Ability
to interpret data and explain findings to non-technical audiences.
- Experience
with DHIS2 platform and mobile data collection software.
- Demonstrate
ability to handle multiple tasks and produce reports on time; ability to
work in a multi-disciplinary and multicultural team environment.
- Ability
to work independently, virtually and communicate efficiently using virtual
platforms. The present working environment requires most of the work to be
conducted virtually.
This role requires
travel to the project’s implementation countries to carry out the fieldwork.
How To Apply
Interested candidates
are encouraged to apply through our recruitment portal https://aphrc.org/vacancies/ by October
13, 2021. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted;
shortlisted candidates will be required to have a Police Clearance Certificate.
Cover letters should be addressed to:
The Human Resources
Officer
African Population and
Health Research Center, Inc
APHRC Campus, Manga
Close, off Kirawa Road, Kitisuru
P.O. Box 10787-GPO,
Nairobi
Website: www.aphrc.org
APHRC is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to the
protection of vulnerable persons