Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (MNTD), REACH Malaria

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PATH is a global nonprofit dedicated to achieving health equity. With more than 40 years of experience forging multisector partnerships and with expertise in science, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales up innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing heath challenges. 

PATH has unparalleled expertise and experience in the development of new tools and strategies for malaria elimination and has the potential to become an acknowledged leader in accelerating efforts towards malaria elimination and global eradication. 

PATH’s Center for Malaria Control and Elimination (CMCE) workings with PATH staff and strategic partners to coordinate expertise and programming and maximize our collective impact toward malaria elimination.

PATH seeks a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Officer for the “Reaching Every At-risk Community and Household with Malaria Services” (REACH Malaria) global project. REACH Malaria aims to provide implementation support services and technical assistance to countries to accelerate progress in comprehensive delivery of facility and community-based malaria services, including malaria case management, prevention of malaria in pregnancy (MiP), data collection and use for service delivery, and other malaria prevention interventions.

The MEL Officer will report to the Program Manager and will support the development and management of MEL systems at the country-level.

Responsibilities:

• Support the development of the country-level MEL plan and systems, including development of country-level data collection tools or forms.

• Support subcontractors to implement MEL plan and systems, working collaboratively to ensure project results are documented

• Support the annual work planning process to ensure the inclusion of MEL-related activities.

• Support implementation of country-level MEL-related activities, coordinating with subcontractors.

• Provide support for routine data collection, cleaning, processing, and analysis of MEL plan performance and context indicators, including mapping of data elements for performance indicators and data flows for reporting.

• Support project monitoring of activities; provide technical and logistical support for any facility assessments, supervision activities, and other primary data collection efforts.

• Provide data entry and processing support for data quality audits (DQAs), and support for data validation and data review meetings.

• Provide support to national, provincial, and district management teams for regular reporting of HMIS malaria data in line with government programmatic needs.

• Provide technical and logistical support for any capacity strengthening efforts or activities for the NMP on use of data for quality improvement and programmatic decision-making.

• Lead knowledge management activities, including ensuring that all MEL-related tools, forms, reports, presentations, and datasets are stored on the project SharePoint site, support data management and the submission of project datasets to data repositories as per contract terms.

• Provide input into technical documents, presentations, SOPs, and reports, as requested.

• Participate in and provide support for after-action reviews of project activities, quarterly review meetings, and other learning activities.

Required skills and experience:

• Master’s degree in public health or social sciences and a bachelor’s degree in public health, Social Sciences, Statistics or relevant discipline.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience and demonstrated skills in monitoring and evaluation in donor-funded project, preferably PMI or USG

• Experience with donor-funded performance monitoring plans.

• Knowledge and experience with MOH’s health information systems (HMIS) and DHIS2 is preferred.

• Proven experience with supporting data collection efforts, and with data entry, cleaning, processing, and analysis.

• Experience with data analysis (e.g., Excel, R, Stata, SPSS, etc.) and data visualization tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI, Tableau)

• Strong communication, problem-solving, organization skills and a positive, solution-oriented approach to challenges.

• Strong analytical, presentation, and report writing skills.

• Excellent skills in knowledge management, facilitation, and coordination.

• Extremely detail-oriented, with the ability to communicate effectively and concisely, both orally and in writing.

• Strong work ethic, resourcefulness, integrity, credibility, and dedication to PATH’s mission.

• Professional proficiency in English preferred.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams) required.

• Ability to travel up to 30 percent in-country; limited international travel expected.

PATH is dedicated to building an inclusive workforce where diversity is valued.
 

PATH is an equal opportunity employer. Every qualified applicant will be considered for employment. PATH does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, marital status, disability status, political ideology, military or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.