PROJECT SUMMARY
Alive & Thrive (A&T) is a global nutrition initiative to save lives, prevent illness, and ensure healthy growth of mothers and children. From 2009–2014, A&T demonstrated that rapid improvements in infant and young child feeding (IYCF) are possible in settings as diverse as Ethiopia, Bangladesh, and Viet Nam. In 2014, A&T began working in Burkina Faso, India, Nigeria, and throughout the Southeast Asia region, expanding its scope to include maternal and adolescent nutrition, and using agriculture and social protection programs as delivery mechanisms for maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN). Currently, A&T is leveraging its robust network and knowledge base to strengthen systems and build capacity in these and other countries across Africa and Asia, and disseminate innovations, tools, and lessons worldwide. The Alive & Thrive initiative, managed by FHI 360, is currently funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Irish Aid, the Tanoto Foundation, and UNICEF.
Alive & Thrive Ethiopia 3.0 is a five-year investment funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to strengthen the institutional and human capacities required to achieve the Government of Ethiopia’s (GOE) ambitions for nutrition. Since 2009, A&T is working in Ethiopia within the context of the National Nutrition Program (NNP) and the National Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Strategy (NNSAS) to promote maternal, adolescent, infant and young child nutrition (MAIYCN) across multiple sectors at the federal, regional, woreda, and community levels. The A&T Ethiopia 3.0 investment will build upon successes and lessons learned from previous IYCF efforts to significantly improve MAIYCN practices. In this new grant, A&T will provide greater analytical, technical, and systems-building support to bolster the capacity of federal and regional authorities to develop, deliver, monitor, and evaluate quality MAIYCN services.
A&T Ethiopia 3.0 will work in partnership with the GOE and others to achieve the following three outcomes: 1) Sustained capacity at national level and among regional health bureaus to support woredas in planning, budgeting, implementing and using data to achieve MAIYCN targets in the NNP II; 2) Sustained capacity at national level and among regional agriculture bureaus to improve women’s and children’s dietary diversity, and access to safe, affordable and nutritious foods; and 3) Knowledge and learning generated and tools and lessons learned disseminated in priority technical areas for improved MAIYCN at scale.
Alive & Thrive is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the governments of Canada and Ireland. The initiative is managed by FHI 360.
POSITION SUMMARY
Under the direct supervision of the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, she/he will be responsible for providing technical support on A&T Ethiopia’s M&E portfolio focused on the implementation and monitoring of the A&T program components and its partners’ implementation of the program. The position holder will be responsible for providing MAIYCN M&E technical and program input through coordination, collaboration, and participation in discussions with different Government’s operationalization of the National Nutrition Program (NNPII), specifically the RHB and RAB. In addition, the M&E officer will collaborate and provide technical assistance on the implementation of routine program monitoring towards tracking and reporting on the implementation of program activities. The M&E officer will also build the capacity of regional offices working on nutrition on the accurate use of the monitoring data, providing ongoing coaching/support through regular site monitoring visits, and ensure quality control and problem solving as needed.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS/KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Summary of key functions: The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will support the implementation of an integrated M&E system for A&T to track the inputs, processes and outputs of each of A&T Ethiopia’s core activities, whether directly carried out by A&T or by its international and local subcontractors and partners. In this regard, she/he will also oversee quality control and timely production of required project data, tools, materials and products relevant to M&E. She/he will communicate, connect, and coordinate with other A&T Ethiopia office technical staff, subcontractors, partners, government and NGO stakeholders to ensure successful implementation of the M&E portfolio of activities expected in A&T Ethiopia 3.0. She/he will also provide strategic technical and program M&E and quality assurance in Ethiopia in disseminating lessons learned from M&E on different forums. Specifically, s/he will focus on achievement of the following key results:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING
TECHNICAL SUPPORT, KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION AND LEARNING
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS and SKILLS
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
SPECIAL REQUIREMENT
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