About Us:
Amref Health Africa was founded in 1957 and has since grown to become the largest African-based international health development organization, currently implementing more than 150 programs which directly reach more than 20 million people across 35 countries in Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref has fully-fledged offices in Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Senegal, South Sudan, and Zambia; eleven advocacy and fundraising offices in Europe and North America; and a staff complement of over 1,500.
The Ethiopia Country office is registered in 2002 and operational for more than two decades. Currently, we are operational in all regions of Ethiopia with more than 300 staffs and wide portfolio of PHC, RMNCAYH-N, Youth Development, WASH and DPC including NTDs.
Our vision is to bring about ‘Lasting health change in Africa’, by supporting Ethiopia’s vision of healthy, productive and prosperous society. We believe that the power to transform Africa's health lies within its communities, and therefore strive to ensure that health systems are not only functional but that communities are empowered to hold these systems accountable for the delivery of quality and affordable health care.
About Improve Primary Health Care Service Delivery Project:
Amref Health Africa in Ethiopia has been implementing the Improve Primary Health Care Service Delivery (IPHCSD) in five regions of Ethiopia from 2022-2027 to expand high-quality health services through the strengthening of evidence-based, primary health care (PHC). This project will strengthen the health system's capacity to implement the HEP roadmap, pressure-testing PHC service delivery approaches and modalities, and provide the evidence base to inform improved national PHC policies, leverage larger financing mechanisms, and transform PHC service delivery for improved health outcomes. The goal is to improve the efficacy of and linkage between PHC delivery platforms to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health, and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) outcomes across Ethiopia. Implemented in five regions of Ethiopia, the investment is focused on approaches that contribute to ensuring equitable access to quality essential health services and strengthening technical oversight and accountability at the PHC level.
Job Purpose:
Amref is seeking a competent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director, will oversee the MEL system for reporting progress, maintain procedures, ensuring availability and use of quality data for adaptive management. The MEL Director will be responsible to develop a strong monitoring, evaluation and learning system and coordinate the collection of data, field visits for data validation, contribute to development of adaptive performance management plan, including performance-monitoring criteria and ensuring continuous monitoring of activity progress. S/he will be responsible for building the capacity of Government of Ethiopia, Ministry of Health (MOH), Regional Health Bureaus, project filed staff and other stakeholders in the harmonization of plans, utilization of and dissemination of data. S/he is expected to co-design MEL framework with sub national entities including technical assistance packages for data quality and usage locally.
S/he will assist the PHC Director by serving as the primary strategic information source and providing high-quality technical support to IPHCSD project teams and his/her engagement with national and regional public health and other sector leaders. S/he will be working closely with the M&E team of BMGF funded Integrated Health System Strengthening Project implemented by Amref, M&E team of JSI/ IPHCSD project, IPHCSD learning partner (MERQ) and other Amref projects to inform Amref’s leadership with triangulated and coordinated data synthesis. S/he is expected to represent the Project and Amref in national Health Information (HIS) working Groups and other partnership platforms serving as HIS expert and disseminate results of integrated HSS project.
The role requires frequent travel to regions and woredas to actively engage the PHC and other sector leaders, Technical working groups, frontline HCWs and communities to ensure the project’s support on Data quality, triangulation and use in a manner that are suitable to local leaders and Performance Monitoring Teams. The successful candidate will be part of the Amref Country Office MEL Team to join hands in its efforts to be evidence driven organization.
Responsibilities
Summary of Required Qualification:
The successful candidate will have a strong background in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning mainly in the health sector; as well as demonstrable experience in the delivery of technical assistance on Health system investments by engaging government counterparts at regional, zonal and woreda level with linkage to the national entities. S/he should also be highly motivated, a creative problem solver, have strong analytical, communication, process facilitation, and collaboration skills.
Academic Qualification
Required Qualifications and Experience
Knowledge, Skills and Competencies