Job Location: India
Type: Full-Time Paid
Business Unit: In-Country Operations
| Overview: |
Regular
and robust monitoring and evaluation will be critical to the success of
the Essential Medicines program in India, enabling CHAI and its
partners to evaluate our performance, to identify and resolve specific
implementation challenges and to identify best practices that can inform
scale-up in other countries. The program will focus on the primary
outcome of zinc and ORS usage, as well as a number of intervention
output indicators that are critical to achieving that higher usage. In
addition, several operational research studies are planned, that will
assess the relative effectiveness of specific interventions and as such
inform government policy development and management decision making.
The Manager – Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) will be responsible
for leading and managing these research elements, and for providing the
thought leadership in designing and implementing a robust M&E
framework to support the Essential Medicines program in India.
Candidates
should have strong research and analytical skills matched with an
ability and desire to use those skills to develop practical solutions in
challenging environments and to focus solely on the use of analytics to
achieve large-scale impact.
|
| Responsibilities: |
- Develop and oversee
implementation and analysis of methods to assess performance and
impact of the zinc/ORS scale-up program in India, including
household and outlet surveys, as well as other methods that are
both rigorous and efficient.
- Align all data collection tools
and data management best practices with the state Ministries of
Health as well as other development partners
- Identify and
manage partner organizations and/or contractors to conduct data
collection and analysis where needed; and coordinate all data
collection activities across relevant states and districts
- Provide
technical leadership in the design of monitoring and evaluation
tools, operations research, KPI reporting framework and knowledge
management
- Produce regular impact monitoring and
evaluation reports for CHAI, and synthesize and communicate main
findings and conclusions through technical working groups and other
meetings in a way that these serve as helpful input for the
Ministry of Health, the Task Force for Child Health, donors and
other stakeholders;
- Develop and manage a database of program
performance data across the various state-level programs to ensure
data is collected and consolidated on a routine and timely basis;
- Build
capacity among state teams in use of data collection tools and
data management best practices through training and mentoring;
- Review
M&E data regularly with program staff at the national and
global level to ensure that the Program is accomplishing its
objectives and corrective actions are taken if required
|
| Qualifications: |
- Doctorate or masters degree in public health, statistics, health economics or related field
- A
minimum of 5-7 years of experience in private or public sector
enterprise; including demonstrated success in research management
and monitoring and evaluation programs.
- Excellent knowledge of
program monitoring and evaluation methods (qualitative and
quantitative), including experience developing monitoring and
evaluation plans, tools, training materials, reports and summary
forms
- Excellent quantitative, problem solving, analytical
and statistical analysis skills (including strong Microsoft Excel
skills and experience with STATA or SAS)
- Capacity to
synthesize monitoring data into effective presentation of results to
help guide recommendations on performance improvement
- Ability to negotiate and achieve consensus with key stakeholders;
- Ability
to creatively solve challenging problems in the application
of research and evaluation methods without extensive structural or
operational support;
- Ability to adapt to fast-paced and changing environments, both internally and externally;
- Excellent business-oriented verbal, visual and written communication skills;
- Previous
experience working in a developing country with ability to
function well in rural settings with limited infrastructure and
services;
- Willingness to spend significant time in the field at health clinics and traveling
- English & Hindi language fluency, both written and verbal required.
To apply for this position, click here
|
Social Plugin