Senior Officer / Advisor-Monitoring Evaluation Research

• Develop MER plans for Human resources for Health (HRH) projects with guidance from supervisor and the project management team.
• Implement the MER plans with guidance from supervisor and the program management team.
• Support harmonization of MER approaches across HRH projects to enhance comparability, efficiency, and aggregation of results at portfolio and organizational levels.
• Support evaluation, research and learning activities under the project – developing research protocols, drafting determination request forms, developing data collection tools, drafting other research related documents and managing IRB submissions.
• Provide strategic MERL inputs to organizational planning and new proposal development efforts, ensuring evidence-driven design and alignment with the organization’s mission and vision.
• Ensure quality, consistency and adherence to best practices for M&E across the program, including data quality use in the reports.
• Record and report progress against all indicators as per the MER plan and steer the process of designing the tools for such progress reports.
• Undertake regular visits to the field to support implementation of MER plan and to identify where adaptations might be needed.
• Support field offices in data quality checks, documentation and analyzing reports for dissemination
• Prepare reports on M&E findings as required, working closely with supervisor, program team and the donors.
• Support in documentation of various project results & processes, and development of success stories and fact sheets for strategic sharing and dissemination.
• Draw up Terms of References (TORs) for partner organizations/learning partners to support specific project research studies with guidance of supervisor and program team.
• Coordinate with partner organizations/learning partners during engagement with them.
• Build the capacity of program staff, partners, and government counterparts in monitoring, evaluation, research methodologies, and data use.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor to achieve the project goals.

• Master’s in public health, Epidemiology, Health Informatics/Population Studies, Health Management or related subjects
• At least five years of relevant professional experience of working with public health programs/ organizations especially in the field of Monitoring, Evaluation and Research related activities.
• Understanding of Global Health and development approaches with willingness to learn the technical side of program implementation.
• Experience with digital platforms for Monitoring, Evaluation and Research would be an added advant
• Prior experience in HRH related programs/interventions would be an added advantage

• Ability to analyze.
• Ability to produce documents and reports of professional quality and coordinate activities independently.
• Fluency in spoken and written English and Hindi required.
• Computer skills demonstrate competency in MS Office Suite and at least one statistical package such as SPSS or STATA.
• Experience in designing and conducting qualitative and quantitative research.
• Ability to multitask and work in a multi-cultural team.
• Ability to develop productive working relationships with other team members, agencies, stakeholders and other organizations.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
• Women candidates will be preferred.

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