ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION

Until no child has AIDS

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) is a global leader in the fight against pediatric HIV/AIDS, working in 15 Countries at over 8,000 sites around the world to prevent the transmission of HIV to children, and to help those already infected.

Strategic Information and Evaluation Officer, UNITAID Project (Local Candidates Only)

Job Summary

Overview :

Through a grant from UNITAID, EGPAF will introduce and scale-up innovative point-of-care (POC) early infant diagnosis (EID) in nine African countries. This four-year project will enable the testing of up to 215,000 HIV-exposed infants, resulting in increased pediatric HIV diagnosis, earlier initiation of infants on ART, increased pediatric ARV coverage, and improved survival of HIV-positive infants.

The Strategic Information and Evaluation (SI&E) Officer will be a key member of EGPAF Cameroon’s Monitoring & Evaluation team and the global UNITAID project team. Under the direction of EGPAF Cameroon’s Director of SI&E, the SI&E Officer will be responsible for aligning the project’s monitoring and evaluation approach with both EGPAF’s and UNITAID’s standardized systems and tools. This will include contributing to the development and day-to-day implementation of the project’s monitoring and reporting systems, including assuring the quality of data collection, management, analysis and use for project improvement. The SI&E Officer will ensure that the project’s M&E activities are coordinated with MOH information systems and integrated into EGPAF’s M&E activities at both global and country levels. In addition, he/she will support the development of evidence-based advocacy and information products, and contribute to evaluations and operations research related to the UNITAID project. 

Job Responsibilities :

• Supports the development and use of UNITAID project M&E plans, systems and tools;
• Contributes to the collection, analysis, and use of project data for report generation, advocacy, information sharing, and program improvement;
• Participates in EID technical working group and other collaboration opportunities with key actors
• Assists the SI&E Director in training and mentoring data entry clerks and other personnel who are responsible for collecting project data;
• Verifies and synthesizes data coming from the field;
• Supports SI&E Director to develop data quality assurance (DQA) system; contributes to tool design, supports strengthening key partner capacity in ensuring data quality
• Supports SI&E Director in promoting data usage and quality improvement;
• Ensures data storage (hard and soft copy) at the M&E office of the project;
• Ensures that project reporting requirements are met, with quality data, in both the EGPAF and UNIPRO systems;
• Assists in data analysis and utilization of data for decision-making;
• Generates queries or transmission of queries requested by the SI&E Director;
• Participates in data reviews;
• Contributes summary data and program content to Foundation and UNITAID information products, such as project reports, briefings, policy statements, and media releases;
• Supports project evaluation and operations research studies, as appropriate;
• Performs other duties as assigned by the SI&E Director; and

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in health sciences, public health, health information, or program management and evaluation, preferably with a focus in the area of HIV/AIDS;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and French; and
• Minimum three (3) years of experience in the area of monitoring and evaluation, and/or health program planning, management and evaluation and health research. Experience with data quality assurance and data usage will be taken into consideration.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrated expertise in providing technical assistance for M&E of public health programs;
• Self-motivated, self-starter who can work independently and collaborate with multiple teams
• Strong and demonstrable proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, and the Internet;
• Experience managing and/or using quantitative methods for basic analyses of large data sets using statistical packages;
• Good interpersonal skills;
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written;
• Rigorous, motivated and interested in public health; and
• Proven ability to work effectively as member of a dynamic team in a fast-paced environment.
• Communicates well both orally and in writing with particular emphasis on presentation skills.

Please visite our website and refer to the position title and requisition number(#967):

http://www.pedaids.org/pages/careers

Please copy your application submission to egrabor-consultant@pedaids.org

The closing date for submission applications is 30 November 2015