Regional Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator – Senegal

Guided by the outstanding legacy of its co-founder, Helen Keller, Helen Keller Intl companions with communities striving to beat longstanding cycles of poverty. By delivering the important constructing blocks of excellent well being, sound vitamin and clear imaginative and prescient, we assist thousands and thousands of individuals create lasting change in their very own lives. Working in additional than 20 nations – throughout Africa, Asia, Europe and america – and along with a worldwide group of supporters, we’re guaranteeing each particular person has the chance – as Helen did – to achieve their true potential.

Helen Keller is a Monitoring and Analysis coordinators to supply technical steerage and mentorship to mission employees in an assigned portfolio of African nations. The Coordinator will likely be liable for the implementation of a regular monitoring & analysis (M&E) system throughout their assigned portfolio.

It is a native rent place to be primarily based in considered one of Helen Keller’s nation places of work. Compensation and advantages will likely be on the Grade L vary within the related Africa nation workplace and all native phrases and situations will apply.

Purposeful Relationships
The Coordinator will likely be a member of the regional M&E Group. Reporting to the Regional M&E Advisor for Africa, the Coordinator will work carefully with a second monitoring and analysis coordinator, the nation workplace M&E focal factors, and nation workplace management as wanted. S/he will even work with members of the worldwide program crew supporting tasks, and be a part of working teams on varied points associated to M&E. The coordinator may additionally symbolize the group at conferences and at conferences with donors.

Helen Keller has a matrixed reporting construction. Common communication and a spirit of teamwork amongst colleagues, each hierarchically and laterally are important to make this construction thrive.

Scope of Place

The Coordinator present technical assist and mentorship to nation groups within the design, implementation, and use of efficiency monitoring methods, together with system structure and knowledge flows. S/he’ll assist implement requirements for monitoring throughout tasks, and assist nation groups to stick to those requirements. As members of the worldwide assist crew, the Coordinator will assist nuanced evaluation of mission knowledge to generate proof on regional influence and to enhance program implementation. S/he’ll advise discipline and world assist groups on knowledge evaluation and visualization, teaching employees to inform tales with their knowledge.

This place will contribute to Helen Keller’s world M&E Neighborhood of Follow and can contribute to the continuing growth and implementation of our minimal program requirements (MPSs) associated to M&E. The place will likely be primarily based in an African nation the place Helen Keller has an workplace and require at the least 25 p.c journey, primarily in Africa.

Key Obligations

Harmonization and coordination of M&E methods and instruments

• Present technical experience in monitoring to nation groups to:
  • develop theories of change for all tasks;
  • choose indicators for the mission to doc program influence, meet donor necessities, and contribute to Helen Keller’s strategic metrics;
  • describe the primary knowledge sources and strategies used to gather knowledge;
  • set up a transparent info circulation and reporting and aggregation construction; and outline knowledge high quality assurance measures and knowledge administration procedures.
• Contribute to the continual growth of ordinary M&E protocols and indicators throughout related tasks, and assist nation groups to stick to those.
• Evaluation program knowledge frequently with the nation M&E Coordinator to make sure knowledge high quality.
• Contribute to the event of a typical indicator system inside every nation to evaluate nation degree, in extra to regional, progress in direction of influence targets.
• Encourage an M&E tradition of ‘knowledge for decision-making’ with regional and nation colleagues to foster the usage of info generated for program administration, high quality and efficiency enchancment, and advocacy.

Dissemination and use of monitoring info

• Evaluation experiences generated by program groups to test for accuracy and completeness, and support groups in completion of experiences the place helps are wanted.
• In rotation with colleagues, recurrently lead discussions with the M&E group of apply which incorporates representatives from every nation workplace. As a part of this, proactively share info throughout nations and broaden the sharing of studying with different nations the place Helen Keller has related applications.
• Provoke a dialog with nation workplace management and M&E employees to establish studying merchandise. Evaluation knowledge with nation places of work to establish key findings from tasks for dissemination. Support employees author or editor with related knowledge as assigned.
• Evaluation and compile country-level monitoring knowledge on a bi-annual foundation. Promote integration of M&E points and classes realized in all related conferences. Establish issues emergent from knowledge evaluation and brainstorm options or escalate to senior employees as wanted.

Employees growth and matrixed administration

• Practice and construct capability of country-level M&E employees within the rules of monitoring and in the usage of knowledge for program decision-making although the group of apply and through one-on-one teaching.
• Work with studying and growth employees to establish studying wants and sources obtainable.
• Contribute to recruitment and ongoing supervision and analysis of M&E employees and contribute to an environment conducive to skilled progress and growth.
• Mannequin collaboration for the matrixed mission groups: successfully seek the advice of and inform colleagues to maximise effectivity and information sharing and combine steerage and route from subject material consultants in your workplace and elsewhere within the world group to maximise efficiency.

{Qualifications} & competencies

• Graduate diploma in epidemiology, statistics or in public well being with a minimal of 6-8 years progressively accountable worldwide measurement, analysis, and analysis expertise for giant and complicated tasks, or equal mixture of training and expertise.
• Expertise in measurement, analysis, and studying in a spread of technical areas throughout the general public well being spectrum (e.g., vitamin, meals safety, agriculture, maternal, neonatal, and baby well being; well being methods strengthening).
• Demonstrated capacity to supply impactful technical assist that permits employees to develop their abilities and to collaborate successfully with out direct line administration.
• Means to obviously talk knowledge insights by means of knowledge visualizations, interactive charts, and dashboards. Expertise with digital and real-time measurement methods most popular.
• Important pondering abilities and documented expertise figuring out “key” challenges and suggest options; Means to establish developments and themes/narrative within the knowledge that translate to actionable change/options.
• Wonderful interpersonal abilities together with lively listening abilities, the power to speak successfully throughout cultures, to barter successfully with inside and exterior colleagues.
• Extremely laptop literate together with information of knowledge administration methods (e.g., DHIS2, Comcare, KoboCollect, ONA, Excel) and Microsoft workplace suite (Phrase; PowerPoint; Outlook Excel abilities pivot tables)
• Means to carry out duties that require very shut consideration to element and synthesize massive quantities of data successfully.
• String writing and modifying abilities are a powerful plus.
• Fluency in English is required. Written proficiency in English is required for francophone candidates; proficiency of French is an asset. Information of any African languages spoken in Helen Keller nations is most popular.
• Means to prioritize workload, assume duty for work, and comply with by means of to completion.
• Means and willingness to work beneath strain with a optimistic perspective, as part of a worldwide crew. Collaborative, versatile and answer oriented.
• Demonstrable respect for all individuals no matter faith, ethnicity, class or gender, with a excessive consolation degree working in a various setting with a demonstrated dedication to excessive skilled moral requirements.
• Dedication to Helen Keller Intl’s work and mission.
• Means and willingness to flex work hours to accommodate a number of time zones.
• Means and willingness to journey 25-35% as allowable to assist roll out of monitoring system. (Updated Covid vaccination standing required for journey.)