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CARE is seeking a Senior MERL Advisor – Country Support (SMA-CS) in Crisis Setting in the Health Equity and Rights Unit, who will provide leadership and technical direction for monitoring, evaluation, research and learning in the MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience (MIHR) project consortium led by IMA World Health. S/he will report to the MIHR MERL Director. This position will focus on areas of fragility analytics, humanitarian-development nexus learning, and monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning as it relates to building health resilience capacities. Building on CARE’s expertise in program quality in humanitarian-development nexus programming, this position will focus on setting up monitoring systems, assessment instruments, data collection approaches, and data use platforms that enable adaptive approaches to ensuring program quality and ensure data-driven decisions to strengthen programming. This position will facilitate thought leadership on effective approaches to FP/RH, MNCH, nutrition, and WASH programming in the humanitarian-development nexus through translating and elevating data and information gathered through MIHR programming. This position will oversee the implementation and provide MERL technical support for 4-5 anglophone MIHR project countries. S/he will provide guidance to the MEL budgets and workplans and provide technical support to the MIHR country programs.
The SMA-CS sits on CARE’s Health Equity and Rights team but is fully seconded to MIHR where they sit on the MERL team for the project. S/he will report to the MIHR MERL Director and coordinate closely with the MIHR Technical Team, MIHR Country Programs Team, MIHR Field Teams, and CARE’s HER Team. This position has technical supervisory responsibility for the MIHR Sr. MEL Advisors in each country office (as this is a seconded position, these reports do not show in the CARE organization chart).
Responsibilities:
- Country support and capacity strengthening: provide technical support to country teams to improve and develop (where necessary) MEL plans, PMP and systems including defining and operationalizing indicators that reflects USAID and MIHR priorities.
- Evidence generation and learning from countries: actively participate in the development and design of evaluation and research efforts and ensure that these are linked to project objectives and deliverables, with focus on bringing country perspectives.
- Technical inputs and analytic support: provide technical input and guidance for MERL to support program quality within MIHR’s FP/RH, MNCH, nutrition, and WASH programming in fragile settings.
- Representation and collaboration: represent MIHR MERL on national, regional, and global technical working groups and communities of practice. This may include cross-MOMENTUM MERL working groups, IAWG’s MNH sub-working group, IAWG’s research and data sub-working group, WHO’s MPDSR in Humanitarian and Fragile Settings sub-working group, and UNICEF’s ENAP-E working group.
Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in public health, demography, sociology, epidemiology, biostatistics, psychology, or a related field
- Seven years’ senior-level experience in M&E and research related to large scale FP/RH/MNCH programs
- Experience working in health, preferably FP/RH, MNCH and/or WASH
- Experience working with DHIS2 or other national Health Management Information Systems (HMIS)
- Demonstrated experience and familiarity with a range of qualitative and quantitative monitoring and research methodologies, such as, use of secondary data, behavioral surveillance surveys, etc.
- Experience in developing, implementing, and disseminating a learning agenda
- Experience monitoring projects, including setting indicators and tracking indicators against set targets; experience with USAID funded projects desirable
- Experience conducting quantitative/statistical and qualitative data analysis
- Exceptional ability to analyze multiple sources of data to identify data trends and provide recommendations on project implementation
- Familiarity with health surveillance systems such as Early Warning Alert and Response Systems (EWARS) and maternal, perinatal, newborn death surveillance and response (MPDSR)
- Familiarity with USAID reporting requirements, including MEL Plans and Project Monitoring Plans (PMPs)
- Proven ability to work as an effective team member and leader
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Ability to work and travel within Sudan and other MIHR countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
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