Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Officer

Job title: Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Officer

Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand

Contract period: One year with a possibility of renewal.

Start: Immediately

BACKGROUND

The spillover of infectious agents from animals to humans in recent decades has had a significant impact on the health of humans, animals, and our environment. To minimize the impact of future pandemic threats, the Southeast Asia One Health University Network (SEAOHUN) was established in 2011 to develop skillful and competent One Health (OH) workforce with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development and its One Health Workforce – Next Generation (OHW-NG) project.

Since its establishment, SEAOHUN has expanded network membership from 10 universities in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam to 95 universities in eight countries, including the four founding countries plus Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and the Philippines. The expansion was made possible with the support of Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), U.S. Department of State (DOS) through its Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI), and USAID. Our university members come from multiple disciplines connected to the health of humans, animals, and the environment.

Our educational programs promote and facilitate collaborative activities and projects among the countries with an emphasis on improving One Health workforce capacity with cross-sectoral competencies to effectively prevent, detect, and respond to all hazards and emerging threats. Examples of our educational initiatives include the development of One Health core and technical competencies, curriculum development and strengthening, introducing innovative teaching methodologies such as One Health problem-based learning cases, building research capacity to provide an evidence-base for One Health advocacy, One Health student clubs, and scholarship and fellowship programs to support long-term capacity development.

The SEAOHUN Secretariat based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, is the coordinating body for all the country networks. The Secretariat manages subawards with the country networks, facilitates SEAOHUN Executive Board meetings and regional activities, strengthens One Health university networks in Southeast Asia through capacity building activities, and partners with national, international and non-governmental organizations to build the next generation of One Health leaders. The Secretariat represents interests of its country networks at regional meetings/conferences/forums of Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) Detect 1 and Detect 5 packages, ASEAN+3 Field Epidemiology Training Network (FETN), the Tripartite (FAO/OIE/WHO), among the others. SEAOHUN has partnered with Pfizer Thailand to address the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Thailand, and with Chevron to strengthen One Health education in Southeast Asia.

For more information, you may visit https://www.seaohun.org/ and http://facebook.com/seaohun

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the overall supervision of the Program Manager, the Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Officer will be responsible for all aspects of monitoring and evaluation including gathering, analyzing, and reporting program results of SEAOHUN and all the country networks to funding agencies, SEAOHUN Executive Board and partners. S/he will undertake the following tasks:

· Manage and implement the One Health Workforce Next Generation project-specific MEL framework in liaison with the projects’ partners, including setting up the data flow system, coordinating data collection and reporting with the country networks, conducting data quality assurance, verifying supporting documents, consolidation of project indicators, drafting success stories and reporting.

· Facilitate knowledge management and sharing including building and sharing lessons learned, good practices, case studies, and alumni tracking. Contribute to the establishment of regional knowledge management system.

· Lead the M&E capacity building activities for relevant staff of SEAOHUN and country networks, including development, revision, and implementation of their MEL plans and MEL training sessions.

· Serve as a focal person coordinating with project partners for the programmatic reporting.

· Contribute to the establishment of systems, policies, and procedures to assess and track multisectoral One Health workforce, including the development and roll-out of regional alumni-tracking system.

· Collaborate with the Public Engagement Officer to promote program results of the regional and country networks through media channels using success stories, infographics, testimonials, etc.

· Assist Program Manager in preparation of work plan and budget related to M&E activities.

· Support the Executive Director and Program Manager in the development of the organizational monitoring, evaluation, and learning plan, including development of gender-sensitive indicators and reporting templates.

· Establish and maintain good working relationships with SEAOHUN program partners.

· Ensure that program results are properly kept, organized, and stored in physical and electronic formats in accordance with the SEAOHUN and funders’ standards and procedures.

· Perform other tasks as assigned and needed for successful program implementation.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in public health, public policy, international development, economics, or related field from a recognized college or university. Diploma or certification in MEL is an asset.
• At least three years’ work experience (Master’s) or five years’ work experience (Bachelor’s) in strategic planning and performance measurement, including indicator selection, target setting, developing and refining data collection tools, reporting, planning and managing surveys, as well as developing and managing MEL plans.
• Experience working with government agencies, intergovernmental agencies, academic universities, or NGOs is required.
• Experiences of working in multi-country projects and of working in Southeast Asian countries are preferred.

· Experience with USAID-funded projects is highly desirable. Experience in One Health is an asset.

• Proven effective communication skills in English, both written and oral. This includes networking, negotiation, and diplomatic skills.
• Self-starting, ability to take initiative, and work with minimal supervision are required.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team in a multicultural environment is necessary.
• Skills in Microsoft Office/Google, email, data analysis, and Internet navigation are required.
• Experience working with databases or knowledge management platforms is an asset.