Position Description
Monitoring and Evaluation officer
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) began
supporting HIV and AIDS programming in Tanzania in 2003 and established a
country office in 2004. Ever since, in close collaboration and
partnership with the Ministry of Health Community Development, Gender,
Elderly and Children and Presidents Office Regional Administration and
Local Government, EGPAF expanded its scope to supporting quality
comprehensive and integrated HIV, GBV, TB, and Family planning services
in the supported regions. Recently, EGPAF in collaboration with
consortium partners Amref Health Tanzania, EngenderHealth, D-tree
International, and Matchboxology won the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID)/Tanzania’s Comprehensive Client-Centered Health
Program – HIV and Tuberculosis Northern (CH3P-HIV&TB) Activity
contract. Under C3HP, EGPAF offers USAID a responsive and
forward-thinking approach that will address the evolving needs of the
people of Tanzania as they relate to HIV, TB, and FP services across
each continuum.
Position Details
Job title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Primary manager: Monitoring and Evaluation Lead
Location: Singida, Dodoma, Kilimanjaro, Arusha, and Manyara
Job Summary
The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will work under the supervision
of the Monitoring and Evaluation Lead to ensure that all data
management activities essential to routine program data monitoring,
reporting, and use are accomplished. This includes coordinating data
entry and cleaning activities, collecting and reporting data, conducting
Data Quality Assessments, responding to data queries from the technical
team, and Monitoring and Evaluation Lead.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Support M&E team in preparing all data requirements of all
routine program reports (monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual). - Work in collaboration with project office personnel, facility data
clerks, R/CHMT focal persons to provide accurate and timely data for
weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports as per set guidance. - Support routine implementation of Data Quality Assessments/Reviews following program and national standards.
- Works in collaboration to ensure availability and use of national and program data, M&E (recording and reporting) tools.
- Provide technical support in your region of work for both facility
and community data collected through mentorship and coaching modalities.
Demonstrate in-depth understanding and practice use of health
information systems such as the CTC2 electronic HIV patient database,
MTUHA paper-based documentation, and reporting, DHIS2, DATIM, IPRS,
digital health applications, etc.)
- Support M&E team in documentation and storage of all data files sent to donor (SAPR, APR, ad hoc query responses).
- Support M&E team in maintaining master site listings including site characteristics.
- Any other responsibility as assigned.
Required Qualifications
- University degree in medical-related degrees (medicine, nursing),
information technology, Public Health, (Bio)statistics, computer
science, or related field - Three or more years work experience in monitoring and evaluation,
including experience with M&E tool development at field and
reporting levels, the DHIS, data capture and data management programs
(Excel, Access, Power BI, etc.), and database design and management
(added advantage) - Previous experience in HIV program monitoring and reporting (e.g.
indicator and systems knowledge, etc.); preferably under US Government
(PEPFAR) funding.(added advantage)
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Capacity and motivation to acquire new knowledge and skills in a short time.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills (English and
Kiswahili); strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and attentiveness
to details. - Ability to make critical decisions independently, take initiative,
manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines and travel 30-40% of working
time. - High level of computer literacy defined by proficiency in the basic
Microsoft packages, and experience with data management and
visualization software (excel, access, Power BI, Tableau). The ability
to code in SQL or a similar language is an advantage, as is experience
or proficiency in statistical analysis software (STATA, R, etc.). - Ability to work within multi-disciplinary teams, make critical
decisions independently, take initiative, manage multiple priorities and
meet deadlines.
HOW TO APPLY
EGPAF is an equal opportunities employer and the position is open to
all. Qualified candidates should submit a CV, cover letter and relevant
certificates explaining how the experience detailed in the CV will
contribute to the requirements of the position and references to EGPAF.
Submissions to be sent to:
Senior Human Resources Manager,
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation,
P.O. BOX 1628,
395 Ursino Park, Mwai Kibaki Road, Morocco.
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The application should be done through the given link.
Closing date: December 10, 2021
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
The deadline for submitting the application is 10 December 2021.
