Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer

Organizational Profile

Christian Health Association of Kenya is a national faith-based organization of the Protestant Churches, health institutions and programs from all counties of Kenya providing quality health care since 1946 through building of health systems, partnerships, and community empowerment.

Job Purpose

CHAK seeks dynamic and highly experienced candidate for the Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Officer position to be based in Meru County for the USAID-funded Jamii Tekelezi project.

The successful candidate will carry out and implement integrated M&E systems as well as incorporate lessons learned from program implementation. The job holder will be key to regular compilation, verification, storage and consolidation of program data, and giving real time information to the program team. This position reports to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collect, verify, collate, and report all data required for USAID, MOH and CHAK reports. This encompasses data cleaning and upload to CHAK/UJTP DHIS2 instance, DATIM, CPMIS and Partner portal on weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
• Collaborate with County Health Management Teams (CHMTs) and County Department of Children Services (CDCS) to conduct routine data quality audit (DQA)/validation, `provide targeted feedback to improve data quality and follow up on data quality improvement plans (DQIP) in all the supported sites.
• Take lead in promotion and scale up of EMR Point of Care (POC) model at county level.
• Support the CHMTs in roll out and implementation of case-based surveillance (CBS) activities in priority facilities.
• Work with beneficiaries and Consortium partners to develop a beneficiary feedback mechanism for timely decision making, and improvements to programming through collaborative, adaptation and learning approaches.
• Take part in county/sub county/facility data review and data consumption meetings and prepare reliable and accurate accompanying narratives.
• Capacity building of project, partners, MOH and grantees staff in quality data collection, analysis, dissemination, and use of health information at county and health facility levels for program planning and management.
• Support the identification of case studies and human-interest stories for inclusion in periodic progress reports to the donor, CHAK, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure county project activities are compliant with the approved work plan and that project results are aligned with the project monitoring plan; will also contribute to development of project strategies; work plans and budgets.
• Maintain positive relations with government counterparts, program partners and other relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biostatistics or Epidemiology, Health informatics, Public Health or other health-related degree from an accredited university.
• Experience of at least five (5) years in Monitoring and Evaluation of Key Populations, Care and Treatment, OVC and COVID-19 PEPFAR programs.
• Experience in the use of PEPFAR programs M&E systems and platforms like DATIM, KHIS2 and Kenya EMR, to support a learning agenda and evolve a theory of change to maximize impact.
• Experience in planning, implementing, and monitoring of M&E activities with CHMTs.
• Understanding of Kenya Health Systems.
• Expertise in MS office suite – Excel, Access & PowerPoint, and data visualisation tools like Power-BI.
• Proficiency in use of any of the following Statistical tools; SAS, Stata, R or SPSS.
• Proven experience in design and development DHIS2 instance for HIV projects.
• Strong knowledge and experience in supporting Collaborative, Learning, and Adaptation (CLA) processes.