Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, March 17, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Director is responsible for providing technical leadership and innovation and all forms of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) related to the program. In addition, the M&E Director leads the implementation of the program’s MEL activities including linking with the relevant stakeholders to provide support for meeting the key objectives of the program. This includes increasing access, coverage, and utilization of quality youth empowerment skills services at program focus areas in Tanzania and Zanzibar. The M&E Director provides guidance and supervises system strengthening, strategic information, quality and monitoring, evaluation and learning team to ensure the timely and quality implementation and reporting of program activities in collaboration with technical teams.

Key Responsibilities
• Support the MEL needs of the project and ensure that robust M&E systems are in place to routinely collect, analyze and report on relevant project data
• Establish and/or maintain robust project MEL systems in line with relevant National policies and guidelines and in accordance with donor reporting requirements
• Lead and participate in quality assurance and improvement exercises, including standards settings and regular measurement of performance according to those standards
• Ensure the timely update of MEL plan and performance monitoring plan as per changes in donor, government requirement
• Ensure implementation and monitoring of weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual Activity progress reporting
• Strengthen and initiate collaborative partnerships with government, donor and other stakeholders in order to ensure harmonized and functional M&E systems in supported areas
• Provide technical leadership in documentation, results packaging and dissemination
• Maintain cohesive and motivated MEL team
• Compile all project level and donor reports; documents, best practices, package for national and international dissemination of THPS program results and lessons learned as approved by USAID/Tanzania
• Analyze project performance on monthly and quarterly basis and recommend appropriate actions in collaboration with technical team
• Work closely with the COP and THPS Executive Director on the strategic information agenda in order to meet the goals of the YES Activity
• Lead annual performance reviews, goal setting, and assist with professional development of supervisees

Qualifications and Experience
• Master’s Degree demography, sociology, epidemiology, biostatistics, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, and research related to health development programs
• Demonstrated experience in target setting and reporting against development programs
• Excellent knowledge of data collection protocols for quality data collection and verification
• Exceptional ability to analyze multiple sources of data to identify data trends and provide recommendations on program performance and improvement
• Demonstrated experience and familiarity with behavioral surveillance surveys, research methodologies, qualitative and quantitative research methods, data analysis, sampling methods, and establishment of M&E systems in developing country contexts
• Demonstrated experience in managing and supervising a team
• Exceptional English written and oral communication skills; fluency in Swahili also required

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Interested applicants should send their application cover letter one page maximum and CV four pages maximum to ( recruitment@thps.or.tz ) by 23rd March, 2022 with a position tittle as a subject line, for example ‘’Monitoring and Evaluation Director YES Activity’’. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. Please do not attach any certificates when submitting online.

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