Corus International leads a group of social-impact organizations (LWR, IMA World Health, CGA Technologies, Ground Up Investing and LWR Farmers Market) working in the world's most fragile settings to address poverty, access to health care and climate change.
Project summary: MIHR (MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience) is a US Government-funded project led by IMA World Health and implemented in the DRC since 2021. It works to sustain primary health care (especially maternal, newborn and child health) in public and private health facilities and to help counter epidemics, prioritising the epidemic-prone provinces of Eastern DRC. LHA is a performance-based financing (PBF) project that supports partner-country governments to deliver effective health services, strengthen health information systems, supply chains and laboratory networks, prepare for and respond to infectious disease outbreaks, and transition donor-funded health programs to government-led ones.
The Senior MEL Manager works closely with MEL Officers, the technical team and other stakeholders to ensure data collection for monitoring and evaluation of the project, and, with the MIHR headquarters MEL team, sets up and manages project databases. The position is based in Bunia (Ituri), DRC, reports to the Deputy Chief of Party and supervises the MIHR and LHA MEL team.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and update MEL plans; coordinate indicator tracking; carry out baseline and monitoring/evaluation studies; coordinate data collection, analysis and synthesis and the MEL aspects of project reporting; ensure data quality assurance and auditing.
- Coordinate the design and implementation of evaluation activities, including performance evaluations, surveys, formative research, qualitative and rapid/special studies.
- Support the technical team to document and share successful approaches, lessons learned and results with local, national and regional bodies, donors, partners and other stakeholders.
- Design and implement capacity-building activities on data collection, data management and research/learning methods for MEL teams of supported structures and partner NGOs.
- Organize monthly and quarterly data review meetings to inform adaptive programming; promote collaboration, learning and adaptation.
Qualifications: Master's degree in public health, demography, epidemiology, biostatistics or monitoring and evaluation. At least 4 years in a similar position in the DRC and at least 7 years of M&E experience in maternal, newborn and child health, nutrition, malaria and HIV programs. Experience as a senior MEL lead/staff on a PBF project and on Ebola projects; strong knowledge of MEL tools for US Government-funded projects; qualitative and quantitative methods; proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Epi-Info, STATA, NVivo, PowerBI; strong DHIS2; excellent written and spoken English. Frequent travel (at least 30%) including to remote and insecure areas.
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply online via the Corus International ApplicantPro portal: https://corus.applicantpro.com/jobs/4246636