Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Officer

JOB PROFILE

Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Officer Nepal

Program Management & Steering - Euro Asia Unit/ Nepal

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Monitoring and Evaluation of Programmes Activities
• Technical Supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System
• Documentation of the M&E System and Capacity Building of Staff

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

This position will perform her / his tasks and responsibilities under the supervision of the Medical Coordinator and in the close collaboration with the program team. The M& E officer is responsible to support the design, implementation, and maintenance of the M&E system of MdM projects in Nepal.

ROLES:

I. Essential duties

• To define the architecture of M&E system, from paper form used in the field up to consolidation of result.
• To define the procedure related to the M&E system.
• To develop and maintain the accurate reference documents and manuals related to the M&E system.
• To ensure quality and availability of the data requested for analysis and adequate results.

II. Responsibilities in detail:

MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF PROGRAMMES ACTIVITIES

• To support program managers in all evaluation and operational research projects implemented at Country level, including design of adapted methodology as well as development of data collection, management, and analysis processes.
• To ensure technical follow-up of all evaluation and operational research projects implemented at Country level.
• To provide regular technical and analytic feedbacks to program teams and other relevant Coordination staff on outcomes of the routine reports monitoring program activities at country level.
• To technically support development and update of adapted M&E Plans in line with projects strategies by relevant project teams
• To ensure effective implementation and follow-up of M&E Plans by project teams
• To assist and support field staff with development and use of adapted M&E tools.
• With support of the program managers and with guidance of Technical Referents to prepare complementary analysis, reports and presentation, including MdM project reviews and cohort analysis at country.

TECHNICAL SUPERVISION OF THE M&E SYSTEM

• To organize, coordinate and supervise effective implementation of timely, qualitative, and compliant processes at country level for reporting to stakeholders (MdM, MoH, Donors and partners).
• To act as focal person for MdM Data Quality Assurance processes in MdM Nepal
• To develop and ensure implementation of internal Routine Data Quality Assessment (RDQA) processes at each level.

DOCUMENTATION OF THE M&E SYSTEM AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF STAFF

• To support program team in development, updating and ensuring both knowledge and availability at country level of relevant M&E guidelines (including data flow, defined roles and responsibilities, indicator summary, DQA processes) and other reference documents for field teams (including data collection and entry guidelines)
• To support program team in development, updating and ensuring knowledge and availability at country level of relevant procedures and technical documents (including report templates, reporting coordination timeline and accurate directory for report description and follow-up) for both Coordination and M&E Department staffs
• The list of task and responsibilities is not exhaustive and may change with time and/or situation.

Context:

For more than 40 years, Médecins du Monde (MdM), a campaigning medical organization committed to international solidarity, has been caring for the most vulnerable populations at home and abroad. It has continued to highlight obstacles that exist in accessing health care and has secured sustainable improvements in health-for-all policies. Those working for this independent organization do not solely dispense care and treatment but condemn violations of human dignity and rights and fight to improve matters for populations living in precarious situations. MdM currently works in more than 44 countries across all continents where it focuses on 5 priority areas: caring for the health of migrants and displaced persons, promoting sexual and reproductive health, combating HIV, and reducing the harm and risks associated with drug use, crises and conflicts and environmental health.

MdM has worked in Nepal since 1995: firstly, on Tuberculosis and HIV in western province, then on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Sindhupalchok District. Following the 2015 earthquakes, MdM implemented an emergency response program and then, a post-earthquake early recovery project in the same district.

Since 2018, MdM is working on Environmental Health. The 2018-2019 “Healthy Waste Workers in Kathmandu Valley” program aimed to improve health status of informal waste workers (IWWs) in the Valley, mitigating their occupational risks and environmental exposure, improving access to information, and increasing access to health services in Teku, Shantinagar and Sisdole landfill sites. In continuation, the 3-years program started in 2020, aims to improve health, wellbeing, and livelihood of IWWs in Kathmandu Valley and Sisdole landfill. Considering many occupational activities have impact, MdM is implementing a program environmental and occupational health in Nepalgunj Sub-metropolitan City, Duduwa and Khajura Rural Municipalities, Banke since 2020, towards 2 group of workers exposed to chemicals, physical and infectious toxic factors: waste workers and farmers.

Nepal is currently facing several interrelated societal and environmental challenges that must be addressed together. The country has begun to recover from the 2015 earthquakes, but the COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the country's economy. Agriculture is the most important economic sector, contributing nearly 27.6% of the national GDP (source: Economic Survey FY 2019-2020), thus 60.4% of Nepali working people depend on agriculture for their livelihood. In addition, the transportation of produce remains a major challenge in this mountainous country where many areas are difficult to access. The process of transitioning to commercial agriculture has begun, resulting in the massive use of chemical inputs to increase production and disastrous consequences for the environment and the health of farmers. This project will continue the development of economic recovery activities, with a focus on organic agriculture and farmers' health, in a target area of 6 rural municipalities. Around these themes, the agricultural cooperatives of the partner will develop several activities such as the creation of model farms, the dissemination of resilient farming methods adapted to climate change via leading farmers, the creation of nurseries to produce locally adapted seeds, training in methods of protection against chemical inputs and awareness of the risks associated with their use etc.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

Qualification Training and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, with research and analysis component, medical background is highly desirable.
• Experience in the Public Health Sector is highly desirable.
• Technical/professional course in Monitoring & Evaluation
• At least 4 years’ proven experience in Monitoring & Evaluation, data management and analysis, with
• programs related to health/environmental health.
• Experience in program planning, monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience as a trainer/mentor is an asset.

Soft Skills

• Rigorous and accurate in work
• Flexible, ability to work under pressure and tied deadlines.
• Team spirit / Ability to work in multi-cultural environment.
• High level of integrity
• Team-working and coordination skills
• Listening and dissemination skills

Hard skills

• IT
  • MS Office package MS-Word, PowerPoint etc. Experience in Advanced Excel is mandatory. Confirmed technical experience in database management and statistical software (preferred - Sphinx, Spss, Stata, ACCESS, EpiInfo, etc.)
• Languages
  • Nepali: fluent - both oral and written
  • English: fluent - both oral and written

Notes to Candidates:

Nationality: Nepalese

Duration: 1 Year (Renewal)

Duty Station: Kathmandu

Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible in July 2023

Number of positions: 1

Closing date of application: 4th June 2023

How to Apply:

Requested to send a letter of interest mentioning position applied with an updated CV in English with 2 references to info.mdmfrance@gmail.com Médecins du Monde Nepal reserves the right to cancel, postpone or modify the whole recruitment process without providing any reasons whatsoever.

Médecins du Monde (MdM) is an equal opportunity employer. MDM refuses in its action any discrimination for reasons of nationality, race, gender, religion, class, language, origin or political opinion.