Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist – Save Your Holy Land Association (SYHLA)
Economics, Health Care, Management
Save Your Holy Land Association (SYHLA)
Organizational profile
Save Your Holy Land Association (SYHLA) is a non-profit, non-partisan, non-political, and non-religious, humanitarian and development-oriented civil society organization working in Ethiopia for the improvement of the social, economic, and physical well-being of the youth in particular and the community in general. Committed to driving societal change in Ethiopia, SYHLA operates as a not-for-profit entity dedicated to the betterment of the community. SYHLA, officially registered by the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Authority for Civil Society Organizations, holds legal recognition as a local Civil Society Organization under Registration No. 0382 in Ethiopia. Founded in December 2001, SYHLA originated through the initiative of two young university graduates committed to fostering a positive impact within the community. SYHLA strives to mobilize the community in health, education, humanitarian response & recovery, peace building, climate change, and eco-tourism to bring about desirable changes in life and the environment in collaboration with individuals, community and institutions. Therefore, SYHLA seeks to employ qualified personnel for its USAID donated HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Services Project implementing in collaboration with Amhara Development Association (ADA) at Woldia, Kobo, Raya Kobo, Mersa, Lalibela and Sekota towns. Hence, SYHLA would like to invite competent applicant for Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist position.
Duties and Responsibilities for Monitoring and Evaluation specialist
Job Summary: The M&E specialist is fully responsible to the overall planning, monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting activities of the program. Likewise, he/she will be responsible to develop/ utilize monitoring and evaluation tools, prepare monitoring checklists, lead field monitoring visits, collect periodic quantitative and qualitative data useful for informed decision making, organize review meetings, generate report using USAID DATIM & Unified Data System (UDS) through CommCare app and provide regular M&E technical support on the spot. In addition, the M&E officer should compile monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for government, ADA/USAID and other partners and properly document the achievements and lessons of the program activities and disseminate to relevant stakeholders.
Duties and responsibilities
- Assure the contribution of the project to the National and Global Health Agenda, including an AIDS-free generation, the UN-AIDS 95/95/95 goals, and its targets of Ending HIV by 2030.
- Prepare action plan and produce consolidated and well organized monthly, quarterly, and annual reports of the project and submits them timely to the program coordinator.
- Strengthen the smooth communication and partnership by working together with key/signatory stakeholders and different like-minded partners.
- Based on the M&E findings, provide monitoring, evaluation and learning feedback and technical support to project officers to upgrade their work capacity.
- Facilitate and participate in staff meetings and in quarterly stakeholders review meetings, management meetings, different workshops and trainings when required.
- Conduct planned field level monitoring and supervision and submits field visit report to the program coordinator.
- Ensure that the standard target set for each project implementation activities are met on the specified time
- Ensure that the targeted sub populations are exhaustively identified, screened, enrolled and appropriately served in the program
- Ensure that all the necessary materials, resources & equipment are available for UDS CommCare real-time data entry
- Write lessons, success stories and best practices and attach copies with quarter & annual reports.
- Collect qualitative & quantitative data, analyze and interpret with the support of statistical computer software to generate sound M&E findings during the report writing
- Monitor that all updated SOPs, Guidelines, Job-aids and documents are always available and accessible to use for project implementation
- Follow-up the budget utilization of each project activities and if there is under or over utilization report to program coordinator and accountant to takes corrective measures
- In addition to the above listed duties and responsibilities, he shall perform other appropriate activities assigned by the organization.
Safeguarding issues
- SYHLA is committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of all individuals, especially vulnerable populations such as children and adults at risk. Our commitment includes creating and maintaining a safe environment for all individuals involved in their activities. We have robust safeguarding policies and procedures in place to prevent and respond to incidents of harm, abuse, or exploitation, and all employees and partners working with them must rely on these policies. SYHLA also has rigorous recruitment practices, including background checks and references, to ensure that individuals working with vulnerable populations are suitable and safe to do so. As part of this commitment, the organization will check the candidate’s background and references as a recruitment process.
Term of Employment: Full time for 12 months contract (April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025) with a possibility of extension based on proven performance of the employee and the continuation of the project.
Project: USAID funded Family Focused HIV Prevention, Care & Treatment Services
Reports to: Project coordinator
Duty Station: Woldia
Number required: 01
Sex/Gender: Male or Female
Working Places: Woldia, Kobo, Mersa,Meket, Lalibela, and Sekota
Dead line: Thursday, March 14, 2024
Qualification/Skill
- MSc/MA/BSc/BA in Stat, Health, Economics, Management or other related SS fields, and Training Certificate on project M&E or PCM, DQIM, DATIM
Minimum Experience
- 4/6 years, 3 of which on PEPFAR /USAID funded HIV/AIDS programs as M&E officer/specialist.
As per the salary scale of the organization with different attractive fringe benefits