Monitoring and Evaluation Lead, Malaria Vaccine Introduction

PATH’s Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA) brings together our expertise across every stage of the long and complex process of vaccine research, development, and delivery to make lifesaving vaccines widely available to children and communities across the world. CVIA’s current portfolio encompasses more than two dozen vaccines either in development or already in use to protect against fifteen different diseases. We work in partnership with national health ministries, pharmaceutical manufacturers, donors, international financing and regulatory organizations, and many others. Within CVIA, the Policy, Access, and Introduction (PAI) functional area leads PATH’s efforts to support countries in all aspects of new vaccine introduction, including implementation, costing, communications, system strengthening, and evaluation.

PATH is currently seeking an M&E lead for our GAVI funded Malaria Vaccine Project (Malvac) in Zambia.  Malvac is a multi-country initiative supporting countries as they prepare for the implementation of malaria vaccine introduction and implementation in specific countries including Zambia. This senior-level position will report to the Malvac-Zambia Project Lead, who provides in-country project leadership of planning, implementation, and evaluation.  The M&E lead will be located at the PATH office in Lusaka, Zambia,  while interfacing regularly with the Project Lead, the Malvac Senior Technical Advisor and PATH colleagues based in the provinces and other Immunization officers in Lusaka and around the country.

We seek candidates who have at least 5 years’ experience working with immunization programs and systems to introduce new vaccines or strengthen routine immunization services, as well as immunization program training, evaluation, and support and have appreciable overview of the malaria program in the country including health system operations at the national and subnational levels.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Country Monitoring and Evaluation Oversight:

• Together with the Project lead, the STA, other Project staff and the Ministry of Health, M&E staff coordinate the development and implementation of key performance indicators for Malaria Vaccine introduction and implementation in Zambia.
• Establish baselines for relevant indicators, implementing standard operating procedures (SOPs) to ensure data quality at each step of the data management system (source, collection, collation, analysis, reporting, use), develop program monitoring dashboards.
• Act as a liaison for project M&E staff and other implementing partners regarding health sector data collection for Malaria vaccine implementation.
• Oversee the collection of multiple rounds of data and evaluate key performance indicators jointly with Ministry of Health partners over the multiple years of project implementation.
• Collect lessons-learned and write reports.

Project Monitoring and Evaluation and Research:

• Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of grants in the portfolio, co-design MEL plans, collect data, conduct analyses, and write reports.
• Contribute to the MEL working group in our portfolio, to share lessons-learned, develop studies and work with other experts to create new insights
• Support the development and execution of data analysis plans and modeling efforts that track progress for Malaria Vaccine introduction and implementation.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of master’s degree in health informatics, public policy, public health, data science, or related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience providing technical and operational support in monitoring and evaluation for the private or not-for-profit health sectors.
• Minimum of 2 years of leading a team of direct reports.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in public health in multiple low- and middle-income countries.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct advanced data analysis and to translate analyses into compelling visual and written materials for a variety of audiences, including donor, government, and corporate audiences locally, regionally, and globally.
• Experience incorporating gender equality in monitoring and project evaluation preferred.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment across multiple time zones, balance competing priorities, and function independently, with strong communication and organization skills is critical.
• Humble, self-driven, fast learner that functions well in a highly collaborative environment as part of a cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural team.
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills; demonstrated representational experience in professional and global fora.