Overview

Management and Development for Health (MDH) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization whose primary aim is to contribute to address public health priorities of the people of Tanzania and the world at large. These priorities include: communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Reproductive, Maternal, New-born and Child Health (RMNCH); Nutrition; Non-Communicable Diseases of public health significance; as well as Health System Strengthening. MDH strongly believes in and works in partnership with various local and global institutions, Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC); President’s Office Regional Authorities and Local Government (PORALG); donor agencies; academic and non-academic institutions;  implementing partners; civil society, community-based and faith-based organizations and others. All job positions require significant fieldwork and travel up to 80% of the time. MDH seeks to recruit qualified individuals to fill vacancies below:

REGIONAL MONITORING AND EVALUATION MANAGER:1 post; Tabora

Reporting to the Regional Project Manager

Job Summary:

The Monitoring and Evaluation Manager will provide strategic vision, management guidance and oversight of Afya Kwanza project. She/He will lead MDH’s technical support for the strengthening of regional and national HIV M&E systems, as well as project M&E, ensuring that all activities meet the highest technical standards. She/he will oversee teams focused on design and implementation of M&E strategies, data quality assurance, associated frameworks, and methodologies as well as knowledge management and global technical leadership activities framework to enable all parties to share and access all knowledge and information.

Duties and Responsibilities

• The M&E Manager is responsible in coordinating program monitoring and reporting activities for Care and Treatment, Laboratory, TB/HIV and Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission (PMTCT), Prevention and Community programs.
• Provide technical assistance in strengthening the national M&E system for all MDH supported programs
• Build capacity of site staff and council health management teams to set a functional groundwork for efficient data collection, entry, compilation and timely reporting at site level, district level and regional level.
• Contribute to development and implementation of the organization’s M&E framework including indicator mapping
• Develop and implement standard operating procedures for data collection, collation, verification and use at each level of the health information system. 
• Prepare quarterly, semi-annual and annual progress reports within described deadlines
• Facilitate utilization of reports at site level and district level for program planning, management and evaluation.
• Lead the preparation of M&E based quarterly feedback reports to the sub grantees to district partners, and Ministry of Health partners.
• Participate in periodic data quality assessment activities to track progress in data management at individual sites focussing in different supported program areas
• Liaising with the Evaluation and Research coordinator in identifying areas for operational research.
• Writing and dissemination of lessons learned and best practices
• Oversee timely site and district level target distribution and monitor and report monthly on target performance to program team and senior management team
• Carry out any other responsibilities as assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Requirements: Education, Experience and skills

• A degree in Computer Science , Statistics or equivalent. Master’s in public health or Monitoring and Evaluation will be an added advantage.
• Previous work experience in M&E in HIV related interventions.
• Knowledge in various statistical data packages including Epi info, Stata, etc is very essential Computer literacy, with comfortable working experience with the basic Microsoft packages (Word, Excel & powerpoint, and Access).
• Excellent written and oral communication in English and Kiswahili
• Ability to work under pressure and timely meet deadlines
• Ability to plan, implement independently or in a team

TO APPLY:

Interested candidates for any of the above positions should submit an application letter indicating clearly the position applied for, a detailed copy of their CV, and contact information (email addresses and telephone numbers) of three work-related referees.  MDH doesn’t have any agents and don’t charge any fees to the interested candidates. Applications should be submitted by August 7, 2019, to the Human Resource Manager through e-mail hr@mdh-tz.org  or dropped by hand at the MDH Head Office in Mikocheni, along Mwai Kibaki Road, Plot No. 802. 

Kindly note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.