Senior MEL Officer West- Port au Prince, Haiti

Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC), a global project funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), that provides strategic technical assistance and direct service delivery to achieve HIV epidemic control among all at-risk populations; strengthen global health security (GHS), including outbreak response; expand tuberculosis detection and treatment (TB), improve maternal and child health (MCH), address malaria; and promote health systems strengthening (HSS) including supply chain management.

In Haiti, EpiC will work to restart and deliver critical lifesaving activities to contain the spread of new HIV infections and sustain lifesaving support to PLHIV, including prevention services/PrEP for pregnant and breastfeeding women, the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV, HIV case identification, HIV care and treatment, TB/HIV, the management of advanced HIV disease, and health information management. All activities will be closely coordinated with the National AIDS Control Program (PNLS), the National Public Health Laboratory (LNSP) and the department level health directorates.

Job Description

The EpiC Haiti Senior MEL Officer will support the SI Senior Advisor in the implementation and strategic coordination of monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) activities within the targeted regions for the EpiC Haiti project. Based in Port-au-Prince and focusing on the West department, s/he will work with EpiC project staff, implementing partners, the SI unit of the National HIV Program (PNLS) and the Ouest Health Directorate to ensure that MEL activities are appropriate and meet project standards. S/he will support and help lead efforts to strengthen partner MEL systems and performance reporting, which may include working with program sub-partners and key stakeholders to monitor, document, and analyze the performance of HIV services and activities, ensure data quality, and support continuous quality improvement (CQI) and adaptive program management.

**The position will be based in FHI 360’s office in Port-au-Prince. Strong preference is for Haitian national candidates.

Job Responsibilities: 

• Support the SI Advisor in the design and implementation of M&E systems and tools for the project;

• Synthesize reports, analyze data and develop or adapt M&E tools;

• Work with the partners regional teams health service providers, local stakeholders and the West Health Directorate to provide support and guidance on project M&E activities, ensuring alignment with USAID and PNLS reporting requirements;

• Work with partners regional M&E teams to support the correct implementation and use of M&E tools and platforms (MESI, PLR, RADAR…), and adherence to complete, correct and timely reporting;

• Conduct routine monitoring visits to project sites, conduct data quality assessments (DQAs) using official tools, assist in the preparation of weekly and monthly reports, and carry out joint supportive supervision at sites with the partners regional teams and the West Health Directorate;