Senior Technical Advisor - Johannesburg
Salary Negotiable
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Johannesburg,
Gauteng
more than 14 days ago
27-01-2021 12:20:28 PM
16-03-2021 9:38:39 AM
Location:
Johannesburg
Type of Business:
NGO
Remuneration:
R85, 000 – R100, 000
Our Client, an NGO in the Health Sector, is seeking a Senior Technical Advisor M&E will lead the NGO’s data collection efforts by providing guidance and tools to ensure that quality data are collected and reported in an efficient and effective manner. The Advisor will guide and mentor the NGO’s M&E staff and liaise with Department of Health (DoH) counterparts to improve information management oversight, driving continuous quality improvement within data management for reporting.
The Senior Technical Advisor M&E will provide technical guidance on the design, development and implementation of the NGO’s M&E plan, build capacity at all program levels to develop, manage and operationalize M&E systems and plans that are aligned to program strategy, to allow for quality reporting and dissemination. The Senior Technical Advisor M&E will provide guidance and tools to ensure high quality and accurate data are collected for analysis and reporting purposes; assist in monitoring and reporting against the NGO’s projects’ performance indicators, key outputs and results; develop methods and milestones to monitor the project’s progress towards its goals, and; contribute to program strategy to ensure that activities and assignments are carried out as planned and the program objectives are being achieved.
Skills and Qualifications:
• A Master’s degree in management, monitoring and evaluation, analytics or a related field is required.
• Minimum of eight years of progressively responsible work experience in designing, establishing, and managing monitoring and evaluation systems, ensuring data quality, and managing data-intensive, performance-based programs, preferably large-scale PEPFAR-funded programs.
• Minimum of six years’ experience focused on operationalising performance indicators and, preferably, working within/extracting data from DATIM, TIER.Net, PHCIS, etc.
• Experience in leading and motivating a team composed of several interdisciplinary technical experts, and to be adept at managing competing deadlines and priorities.
• Ability to work across business units and capture and disseminate lessons learned to ensure the continual improvement of data collection processes and outputs.
• Ability to portray complex data sets in easy-to-understand formats including visualisations.
• Working knowledge of South Africa’s health information systems and monitoring and evaluation processes as they relate to data collection for performance-based reporting on the National Strategic Plan.
• Well-organized with an ability to handle a large workload, deliver on short deadlines and
• work independently.
• Excellent written and communication skills in English.