, Addis Ababa
Pathfinder International Ethiopia
Overview of Pathfinder International: Pathfinder International is a global leader in sexual and reproductive health. We place reproductive health care at the center of all that we do—believing that it is not only a fundamental human right, but is critical for expanding life opportunities for women, families, communities, and nations, and paving the way for transformations in environmental stewardship, decreases in population pressures, and innovations in poverty reduction. Pathfinder provides women, men, and adolescents with a range of quality health services—from contraception and maternal care to HIV prevention and AIDS care and treatment. Pathfinder strives to strengthen access to family planning, advocate for sound reproductive health policies, and, through all of our work, improve the rights and lives of the people we serve. Project overview: Currently, Pathfinder Ethiopia is preparing for an upcoming project opportunity aimed at supporting adolescent girls to achieve a healthy transition into an adulthood. The project would be implemented jointly by Pathfinder Ethiopia and Care Ethiopia in Amhara, Oromia, and Tigray regions. Pathfinder would have lead responsibility for activities in Amhara region, South Gondar Zone, in five woredas: Ebinat, Libo Kemkem, Tache Gayint, Lay Gayint and Simada. Pathfinder will lead responsibility in Tigray, with exact zones to be determined in the future. The project will be evaluated by an external research consortium, and the program is designed to ensure that key research questions can be answered. Job Summary/Position Summary: Under the guidance and close supervision of the Country Project Manager, the National M&E Officer will be part of an M&E team supporting the project and have overall responsibility for monitoring, learning, and knowledge management activities. S/he will work closely with the Global M&L Manager to ensure that the M&L/KM strategy is implemented with fidelity and that data and implementation information are readily available to the global team. S/he will also support and oversee regional level staff members with M&E responsibilities. S/he is responsible for ensuring that programmatic and technical staff understand the importance of preserving the external research design and documenting any changes to project implementation. The National M&E Officer ensures that the MEL strategy is executed in-country and supports Regional M&E Officers to manage data collection and documentation efforts. S/he is responsible for ensuring that high quality data is collected and shared as planned, promoting a culture of data-use and learning. The national M&E officer conducts data quality checks to ensure that no data-entry errors were made while entering paper-based data into DHIS 2. They are responsible for sharing data with Addis-based project staff through DHIS 2 templates and supporting them to understand and interpret the data. They lead quarterly data-review meetings at the national level. They are also responsible for ensuring that any ethical issues related to data collection are addressed and/or brought to the attention of appropriate staff. They proactively flag operational and or implementation concerns to the Project Manager. The National MEL Officer ensures that MEL activities are standardized across Pathfinder and partner sites and works closely with technical staff to review data and address any differences in implementation across sites. Duties and Responsibilities: Responsible for overall Monitoring, Learning (M&L) and Knowledge Management (KM) coordination and implementation in-country.Responsible for engaging with relevant project M&L/KM and external evaluation/research partners on both national and international levels.Work in close collaboration with the Global M&L Manager to implement and monitor the M&L/KM strategy.Provide supportive supervision to Pathfinder Regional M&E Officer to implement and monitor the M&L/KM Strategy. Work with the regional M&L Officer to orient relevant Ethiopia project staff and volunteers on their assigned M&L-related duties and train them as needed to successfully carry them out.Work with direct supervisor and project staff to ensure the integrity of the research design, including documenting any deviations from implementation as planned, training project staff on the importance of implementing project arms as planned and sharing any changes with the M&E Officer. Monitor activities across project regions to ensure data quality, including that project partners and staff are entering accurate data into data systems on a timely basis.Work with technical and programmatic staff to promote data use and data-informed decision-making, including leading regular performance review meetings and flagging potential issues with implementation quality or project performanceReview the reporting systems of the project and ensure that the system is updated based on in-house and donor feedback.Manage and troubleshoot DHIS 2 database and digital data collection systems (CommCare), in collaboration with the Global M&L Manager and the Digital Health AdvisorAssist the project team in refining performance indicators as may be needed and reporting on them through a donor results framework.  Provide internal reports on progress against annual work plans.  Assist in preparing annual work plans and budget. Oversee the preparation of quarterly and annual activity reports from the kebele and woreda levels, and ensure their timely submission to the regional M&L officer.Oversee documentation of project activities and processes, good practice, innovations and learning. Provide national level support to the regional team.Coordinate with program staff on design, implementation, analysis and dissemination of project M&E reports.Perform consistency and validation analysis of data and facilitates improvement of data collection, documentation and reporting systems. Oversee record-keeping, data collection, and data analysis in the field.Carry out supervisory field visits to woreda and kebele level data collection activities. Carry out all other duties as required by the immediate supervisor.  Opportunity:  Adolescent Health Project Reports to: Country Project Manager