PROGRAM ASSISTANT - MONITORING, EVALUATION, RESEARCH AND LEARNING (MERL)

Overview

Company profile: SoCha (a portmanteau of Social and Change) is an independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (ME&L) firm that provides bespoke solutions to social challenges. Since our inception in 2010, we have grown into a fully-fledged ME&L services firm that specializes in advancing innovative methodologies and changing the way donors find solutions to social problems.

Context: SoCha LLC is implementing a two-year (optional third year) Mission Support for Journey to Self-Reliance (J2SR) Pivot (MSP) Activity on behalf of USAID Kenya and East Africa (USAID/KEA). The purpose of the Activity is to support USAID/KEA staff and stakeholders in achieving development outcomes through the use of evidence, performance management techniques, and collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) practices that enable J2SR.

USAID and the Council of Governors (CoG) will jointly create a team of four experts (in the areas of Intergovernmental Relations, Public Health, Health Financing and Health Supply Chain) and three program management assistants to augment the Health Committee’s Secretariat.

This support advances USAID/KEA’s support to county governments to have:

• Improved coordination, collaboration, and cooperation within the intergovernmental forum on health as well as the National and County Government Coordinating Summit.
• Improved capacity of the CoG Health Committee to engage effectively in policy analysis, research, and communication.
• Improved fiscal, policy and legal analysis on matters related to the health sector to enhance service delivery.
• Coordination and engagement with development partners and other stakeholders towards sustainable delivery of Universal Health Care (UHC).

Responsibilities

Scope of Work: The Program Management Assistant - Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) will research, analyze data and create evidence-based reports to support and advise the Health Committee of the CoG on emerging issues that affect the Health Sector at National and County levels in Kenya. The consultant will report to the Technical Lead of the Health Committee of the CoG.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Under the guidance of the experts, support in the collection, aggregation, synthesis, analysis, and interpretation of data relevant to the Health Committee’s mandate.
• Contribute to the synthesis of data and their translation into written documents and/or presentations.
• Collaborate with the policy secretariat and the Health Committee at the Council of Governors to support the Committee’s mandate.
• Develop and manage dashboards or other data visualization tools as necessary to facilitate reporting of the policy secretariat’s activities.
• Provide administrative support as needed, including planning, coordination, and visits to Counties by the Experts.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Education

• Bachelor’s degree.

Additional education

• Bachelor’s degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Research Methods, Project Management, Social Sciences or any related fields

Experience

Additional experience

• Three to five years of relevant experience
• Experience in writing high quality reports.
• Strong communication skills, and an excellent team player.
• A Kenyan citizen

Skills

• Professional

Additional skills

Skills and Abilities:

• The ability to recognize significant developments and trends reflected from collected data and bring it to the attention of supervisors is required.
• The ability to obtain, evaluate and interpret factual data and to prepare precise, accurate and complete reports is necessary.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and in collaboration with other team members required.
• Ability to work across various teams with excellent interpersonal skills, with demonstrated ability to build consensus and navigate complex operating environments.
• Prior experience designing and implementing performance and outcome evaluations and other types of research, preferably in the public service or health sector
• Proficiency in computer skills is required for this position.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in order to: 1) facilitate productive professional relationships with different culturally diverse stakeholders; 2) work calmly, tactfully and effectively under pressure; 3) demonstrate extraordinary flexibility; and 4) effectively manage more than one task at the same time.
• Ability to effectively work virtually, and conversant with virtual meetings apps eg zoom, google meets etc

Terms and conditions

To lodge an application for this position, please lodge CV via the following link

https://jobs.socha.net/program-assistant-monitoring-evaluation-research-and-learning-merl/

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Applications close on August 31, 2020