Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Pact Overview

At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. A nonprofit international development organization founded in 1971, Pact works on the ground in nearly 40 countries to improve the lives of those who are challenged by poverty and marginalization. We serve these communities because we envision a world where everyone owns their future. To do this, we build systemic solutions in partnership with local organizations, businesses, and governments that create sustainable and resilient communities where those we serve are heard, capable, and vibrant. Pact is a recognized global leader in international development. Our staff have a range of expertise in areas including public health, capacity development, governance and civil society, natural resource management, poverty, fragile states, monitoring and evaluation, small-scale and artisanal mining, microfinance and more. This expertise is combined in Pact’s unique integrated approach, which focuses on systemic changes needed to improve people’s lives.

Department

Programs

Department Overview

Pact strives for a world where all people are heard, capable, and vibrant. The Programs Team helps realize this objective by bridging program management, technical support, and business development, enabling Pact to achieve its global strategy. We ensure program excellence through continuous learning, monitoring and evaluation and provide organizational and industry-wide thought leadership by leveraging a complementary set of cross-functional, multi-disciplinary skills, expertise, and experiences. The Programs team: influences progressive change through the development and implementation of global and regional strategies and business plans; supports advancement of innovative solutions; pursues new business opportunities; and drives effective internal and external engagement to maximize Pact’s impact across the globe. Across all aspects of its role, the Programs Department adheres to and promotes a culture of inclusion, accountability, and respect.

Position Purpose

Pact Inc. is implementing a USAID-funded project Community Action for HIV Control (ComAxn). The project goal is to accelerate Ukraine’s efforts to achieve HIV epidemic control by 2030 by improved prevention, testing and linkage to care among key and priority populations.

Under the M&E and SI Senior Advisor supervision, the M&E Officer will provide effective management of program data flow through the maintenance of internal electronic and paper-based recording systems and providing necessary data for program reports and deliverables. The M&E Officer is responsible for the entire cycle of program data operations, including development of program data collection tools, providing guidance/trainings to subgrantees on data collections, data collection, data verification and reporting to USAID. The M&E Officer is also responsible for data analysis and timely provision of information on underreporting of expected results to program staff. In addition, the M&E Officer will also provide the support to program staff in conduction of studies, assessments etc, including input into developing tools of data collection, data analysis and interpretation.

Key Responsibilities

• Support project-level monitoring of ComAxn activities through the maintenance of internal electronic and paper-based recording systems and providing necessary data for program reports and deliverables.
• Review, update and maintain program data collection tools, both electronic and paper-based.
• Facilitate data collection, collation and timely reporting by ComAxn partners and staff.
• Develop and disseminate data collection tools and reporting forms. Provide training to partners and staff on data collection and reporting, as necessary.
• Aggregate and analyze partner reports. Support partners in developing and maintaining internal data collection tools and procedures.
• Conduct data analysis for internal and external reporting as per USAID and program requirements.
• Store primary (source) documents on all ComAxn -organized activities.
• Prepare reporting documents for COP and DCOP review.
• Conducts data verification between ComAxn primary (source) documents and tracking tools/on-line electronic database (EDB).
• Conducts data verification of Partner and ComAxn -generated data.
• Develops ComAxn primary (source) data collection documents and tracking tools, ensures their availability and updated on the shared server.
• Support program staff in study designs developments, data collection and interpretation
• Perform all work safely and maintain a safe working environment;
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Basic Requirements

• Master’s degree in public health, sociology or related discipline.
• At least five (5) years of relevant experience in monitoring and evaluation HIV/AIDS programs in Ukraine.
• Experience with evaluation and research design, data collection and analyses, indicator construction, curriculum development
• Experience of analytical notes preparation, reports on the results of data analysis, data visualization
• Skills on workings with Excel and other MS Office software, database programs
• Experience with USAID or other donor-funded projects in the area of M&E
• Strong communication, writing and organizational skills for monitoring and effective reporting
• Proficiency in English and Ukrainian is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience of work with Case++, DataCheck, SyrEx and other systems of program monitoring implemented in Ukraine;
• Knowledge and skills on relational data bases and basic skills on SQL
• Knowledge and skills on data processing automatization (dashboards development, automatization of reporting)
• Experience of reporting on PEPFAR MER indicators and reporting data through DATIM reporting system
• Experience in the area of HIV/AIDS strategic information