Ethiopia: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

CARE Ethiopia seeks a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to support an upcoming, USAID/Ethiopia-funded, project that will use an integrated WASH approach to address the burden of five to seven highly-prevalent neglected tropical diseases on vulnerable populations across the country.

The effort is expected to further goals and objectives of current Mission programming to eradicate lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, blinding trachoma, and three soil-transmitted helminthes (hookworm, roundworm, and whipworm) that disproportionally affect poor communities with a lack of access to clean water and high rates of exposure to disease vectors. By ensuring alignment with current implementing partners of USAID’s flagship Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program, CARE plans to continue reaching the most marginalized in the country’s designated focus areas: Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Oromia, SNNPR, Somali, and Tigray, among other regions.

Working through woreda steering committees, CARE presently targets activities at the zonal level in conjunction with water, health, education, environmental protection partners. Using evidence-based approaches, including the SAFE strategy for trachoma, the project will implement strategies around water access and supply, sanitation, and school- and houshold-level hygiene. Illustrative project activities include conducting extensive mapping of water resources; developing project strategies based on maps that overlay trachoma, schistosomaisis, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis; collaborating with local government to improve community-managed water supply systems; expanding and deepening household latrine access and solid-waste management; implementing a school-led total sanitation approach; effecting (rolling-out) behavior change communication campaigns, while leveraging local media; and creating manuals and training local WASH champions for sustainable project results. Through these and other activities, CARE will work through existing policy mechanisms, and local fora, movements, and groups, to gather data, develop and implement project activities, report impacts, and disseminate findings and best practices.

The successful candidate will assume responsibility for full-cycle monitoring and evaluation of this project’s development hypothesis. First, s/he will develop a methodology and tools to design an evaluation, while assessing the reliability and validity of indicators. S/he will collaborate with project staff to finalize the indicator list and begin supervising data collection. The M&E Specialist will also inquire into the generalizability of project data across the population, and will oversee data analysis. S/he will then supervise production of a series of evaluation reports, which will include recommendations based on empirical data that help Mission and program staff make informed decisions. These reports include the PMP, annual work plans (including targets), quarterly reports, and annual reports – which, together, will form a useful basis for a discussion around the Mission’s M&E system.

Finally, the M&E Specialist will play a large role in assisting the capacity-building efforts of the CARE and partners to develop, standardize, and utilize standardized data collection and reporting forms.

Specific duties and responsibilities:

Establishing project-specific M&E systems;Working with management information systems to analyze data and supervise data collection efforts;Creating a learning agenda for the project team; andStrengthening CARE and partner-level M&E systems.

Minimum qualifications:

Master’s degree in statistics, epidemiology, public health, or related field required;Experience using random selection and random assignment to design impact evaluations;Experience developing indicators for impact and performance evaluation;Knowledge of quantitative and qualitative methods;Familiarity with sampling and data-matching techniques in data-scarce settings;Experience conducting data quality assessments (DQAs);Experience in social science, as well as health monitoring and evaluation;Prior work with statistical software packages, including quantitative software and qualitative software;Fluency in speaking, reading, and writing in English required; andExperience with USAID awards.

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