Population Services International Monitoring Advisor Jobs in Uganda

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With over 50 years of experience, working in over 50 countries, Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization.

PSI is reimagining healthcare, by putting the consumer at the center, and wherever possible – bringing care to the front door. We are working to fix market failures, shape future health markets and shift policy and funding to better support consumer empowered healthcare.

There are over 7,000 “PSI’ers” around the world.

Your Contribution

You will work closely with country-level programmatic and M&E teams in Uganda and Nigeria to develop and optimize a high quality, reliable monitoring system for the DISC project, focusing on ensuring it is:

• Feasible and in line with budget requirements

• Nimble and flexible

• Well-understood by both the in-country program and M&E staff

• Responsive to key learning areas for the project; and

• Acceptable to donors

This position will require close coordination and collaboration with the DISC core and country teams, as well as with PSI’s Strategy and Insights department.

Your specific contributions will include:

Develop, assess, and refine DISC performance and process indicators and their platforms; ensuring indicators are achievable, measurable, and in line with global standards, and that data dashboards are reliably developed and executed.

Collaborate with DISC team to develop and refine project technical frameworks and models, in alignment with M&E indicators.

Collaborate with PSI’s Digital Health Solutions team to develop and launch the DISC monitoring dashboard.

Consult with other similar PSI projects such as A360 and incorporate learnings from their experiences with M&E on CIFF-funded SRH programs in overlapping countries.

Implement PSI Data to Action frameworks and overall data use strategies to enable country teams to engage with and use data to improve the performance (scale, quality and efficiency) of the program. Enable the project’s strong and systematic orientation toward use of monitoring as part of adaptive implementation and participatory inquiry and learning.

Support country teams to shape their evidence use strategy, taking into account both routine data and DISC’s other complimentary data streams (linking data to their activities/deliverables).

Support country teams to develop action plans to deliver their evidence use strategy.

Serve as primary point of contact on use of monitoring data for DISC Adaptive Implementation processes, including structured and participatory learning with DISC key local stakeholders.

Synthesize, analyze, and share routine monitoring data as part of establishing the whole project’s culture and practice regarding performance review and learning for continuous improvement.

Play a lead role in designing, structuring and executing DISC routine performance and learning review meetings, ensuring agendas and learning topics identified are country-led and well prepared in advance.

Complete DISC M&E deliverables and reporting requirements in accordance with grant agreement terms, ensuring timely and relevant analyses for external audiences including donors and government partners.

Report on and analyze performance against key performance indicators.

Ensure timely updating and maintenance of the DISC monitoring dashboard.

Take ownership of monitoring capacity building, knowledge sharing and learning, communicating regularly on results and activities. Support country monitoring staff to ensure quality data and its use to proactively identify trends and tell a relevant and compelling technical story to internal and external key audiences

The Basics

• Bachelor’s degree in implementation science, social sciences or related field (Master’s is preferred) or an equivalent combination of education and experience;

• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible oversight and capacity development of teams to ensure data quality, timeliness, relevance to key project evidence objectives;

• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible, professional-level experience in organizational or action learning, technical thought leadership, and/or knowledge

management;

• Proven ability to lead teams through routine performance analysis, in line with country-driven inquiry and learning approaches;

• Excellent data visualization skills, and capacity development of others in this area;

• Substantial understanding of knowledge management and learning theory, practice and tools;

• Extensive experience in determining appropriate knowledge management processes, products and platforms;

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including written, verbal and facilitation skills applied within multi-cultural contexts;

• Fluency in written and spoken English; French/Spanish/Portuguese is a plus;

• Ability to work across teams, time zones and groups over whom there is no direct authority to accomplish project goals;

• Must be authorized to work in the United States. N.B. PSI will not consider work visa sponsorship for this position;

• Proven experience producing a wide variety of high-quality communications products that are both stylish and substantive;

• Demonstrated experience working in the sexual and reproductive health, and adolescent and youth programming;

• Outstanding English written, verbal and inter-personal communication skills;

• Experience and excellence in working with large, multinational and intercultural teams;

• References will be required;

• The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check;

• Must possess valid work authorization.

What We Are Looking For?

The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:

• Measurement: You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.

• Pragmatism: You’ll strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You won’t be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.

• Honesty: You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it’s the only way you’ll learn and improve.

• Collaboration: You’ll quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you won’t succeed.

• Trust: You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt.

• Commitment: You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI serves its consumers and partners with host-country governments through thick and thin.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should email their cover letter addressed to the Human Resources and Administration Manager, PSIU, and an updated CV ONLY to apply@psiug.org indicating the Job title in the subject of the email.

Applications should reach us not later than 5.00pm (1700H) on Friday December 4th, 2020.

Applications received will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible!

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

Please note PSI Uganda does not solicit for funds during any recruitment process.

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