Work Location: Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
Other Possible Locations: Rural Ethiopia
Expected Travel: up to 30%
Language Requirement: Fluency in reading, writing, and speaking
English
Employee Duration: Active Full-Time
Type of Post: Accompanied - Family
Funding: THIS POSITION IS PENDING DONOR
APPROVAL
Application Deadline:
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DESCRIPTION
CARE Ethiopia seeks a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
to support an upcoming, USAID/Ethiopia-funded, project that will use an
integrated WASH approach to address the burden of five to seven
highly-prevalent neglected tropical diseases on vulnerable populations across
the country.
The effort is expected to further goals and objectives of
current Mission programming to eradicate lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis,
onchocerciasis, blinding trachoma, and three soil-transmitted helminthes
(hookworm, roundworm, and whipworm) that disproportionally affect poor
communities with a lack of access to clean water and high rates of exposure to
disease vectors. By ensuring alignment with current implementing partners
of USAID’s flagshipNeglected Tropical Disease Control Program, CARE
plans to continue reaching the most marginalized in the country’s designated
focus areas: Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Oromia, SNNPR, Somali, and
Tigray, among other regions.
Working through woreda steering committees, CARE presently
targets activities at the zonal level in conjunction with water, health,
education, environmental protection partners. Using evidence-based
approaches, including the SAFE strategy for trachoma, the project will
implement strategies around water access and supply, sanitation, and school-
and houshold-level hygiene. Illustrative project activities include
conducting extensive mapping of water resources; developing project strategies
based on maps that overlay trachoma, schistosomaisis, and soil-transmitted
helminthiasis; collaborating with local government to improve community-managed
water supply systems; expanding and deepening household latrine access and
solid-waste management; implementing a school-led total sanitation approach;
effecting (rolling-out) behavior change communication campaigns, while
leveraging local media; and creating manuals and training local WASH champions
for sustainable project results. Through these and other activities, CARE
will work through existing policy mechanisms, and local fora, movements, and
groups, to gather data, develop and implement project activities, report
impacts, and disseminate findings and best practices.
The successful candidate will assume responsibility for
full-cycle monitoring and evaluation of this project’s development
hypothesis. First, s/he will develop a methodology and tools to design an
evaluation, while assessing the reliability and validity of indicators.
S/he will collaborate with project staff to finalize the indicator list and begin
supervising data collection. The M&E Specialist will also inquire
into the generalizability of project data across the population, and will
oversee data analysis. S/he will then supervise production of a series of
evaluation reports, which will include recommendations based on empirical data
that help Mission and program staff make informed decisions. These
reports include the PMP, annual work plans (including targets), quarterly
reports, and annual reports – which, together, will form a useful basis for a
discussion around the Mission’s M&E system.
Finally, the M&E Specialist will play a large role in
assisting the capacity-building efforts of the CARE and partners to develop,
standardize, and utilize standardized data collection and reporting forms.
Specific duties and responsibilities:
- Establishing
project-specific M&E systems;
- Working
with management information systems to analyze data and supervise data
collection efforts;
- Creating
a learning agenda for the project team; and
- Strengthening
CARE and partner-level M&E systems.
Minimum qualifications:
- Master’s
degree in statistics, epidemiology, public health, or related field
required;
- Experience
using random selection and random assignment to design impact evaluations;
- Experience
developing indicators for impact and performance evaluation;
- Knowledge
of quantitative and qualitative methods;
- Familiarity
with sampling and data-matching techniques in data-scarce settings;
- Experience
conducting data quality assessments (DQAs);
- Experience
in social science, as well as health monitoring and evaluation;
- Prior
work with statistical software packages, including quantitative software
and qualitative software;
- Fluency
in speaking, reading, and writing in English required; and
- Experience
with USAID awards.
