Indonesia: Monitoring and Evaluation Director

IMA World Health is seeking a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Director for an upcoming USAID Maternal Child Health (MCH) funding opportunity in Indonesia. The M&E Director will provide M&E technical leadership and technical assistance to M&E Officers and project partners; s/he is responsible for the monitoring, evaluation and reporting systems that reflect IMA’s strategic direction and priorities. The M&E Director will work in close partnership with IMA project staff, and partner organizations and government institutions on all harmonized M&E activities. S/he will answer directly to the Chief of Party.

Duties:

• Report on the project’s Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP).


• Work with HQ technical leadership to integrate Health components into M&E framework.


• Support in the collection and monitoring of all M&E activities under the project; this includes reviewing data collection tools, supervising and/or conducting reports from fieldwork, conducting data analysis and interpretation of findings.


• Conduct routine data quality assurance process to maintain adequate quality control in all aspects of M&E from data collection to results reporting.


• Review partners progress reports in collaboration with program managers and provide feedback to the partners based on their performance.


• Prepare or support routine reports, abstracts, presentations, brochures, project summary sheets, newsletters and present at conferences or meetings when required.


• Prepare semi-annual and annual reports and draft quarterly project reports in close collaboration with project staff.


• Contribute to quarterly, biannual and annual tabular and narrative reports.


• Provide information in response to ad hoc internal and external requests.


• Communicate M&E results to internal and external audiences orally and in writing.


• Develop and update the project’s results plan and follow up on data collection and dissemination of best practices and lessons learned.

The position requires a competent and experienced person with the following attributes:

• A master’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Demographics or an M&E related field.


• A minimum of 8 years of experience in monitoring, designing, and implementing programs in health or MCH, with demonstrated supervision experience.


• Experience in monitoring and evaluation including the ability to develop and monitor database systems for data management and routine reporting.


• A familiarity with USAID reporting regulations.


• Analysis and data management skills as well as demonstrated analytical skills and experience in identifying and evaluating best practices and state-of-the-art approaches to be utilized by the project.


• Experience working with county leaders/officials in a decentralized setting.


• Experience working with statistical databases (Stata, SAS, etc.), especially DHISII.


• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.


• Ability to communicate and coordinate effectively with donors, MOH, project partners and to provide technical M&E leadership and represent IMA World Health.


• Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesian is preferred.