Monitoring and Evaluation Manager at Maryland Global Initiatives Corporation

The purpose of this position is to strengthen University of Maryland’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) capacity country programs. The M&E Manager will be responsible for supervising the team of M&E, Strategic Information, Health Information, eHealth and IT staff and coordinating efforts with partner M&E staff. The M&E Manager will keep abreast of state of the art M&E approaches to ensure the use of technically appropriate monitoring and evaluation models and information systems.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

Set up, manage, and report from a functional M&E system for the HIV programs.

Tasks

• Take lead in development, implementation, and management of the M&E Plan for the program.
• Provide hands-on technical assistance to staff in designing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting systems.
• Take lead in development of M&E tools for the program.
• Being responsible for the management and development of program databases for each of the technical component and supervising data entry including collation into program databases.
• Actively interrogate databases for discrepancies, errors, and missing data in order to verify the accuracy and validity of the data.
• Undertake data analysis relevant to project activities and dissemination for the program.
• Conduct regular and routine DQAs to ensure accuracy of data.
• Develop daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports for the program.
• Lead the development of the eHealth (mHealth and EMR) strategic approach and its implementation.
• Ensure strengthening and expansion of effective referral systems.
• Support the program team (Technical leads, Program Managers, Hub Leads, Field officers and SI/M&E officers) in review of HIV service delivery at the health facility and community level for timely decision making.
• Collaborate with partners to ensure appropriate monitoring and evaluation activities, including providing input into appropriate logical framework and indicator development.
• Capacity building and mentorship of program staff in Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Participate in HMIS/M&E/eHealth TWG.

Reporting

The M&E Manager will report to the Chief of Party and Deputy Chief of Party for the grant on which she/he is employed, as well as the Director of SI (HQ) and Director of SI (Lusaka).

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