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Health,
Education and Social Programs
Position:
Monitoring and Evaluation Associate
About
ICF International
ICF
International (NASDAQ:ICFI) partners with government and commercial clients to
deliver professional services and technology solutions in the energy and
climate change; environment and infrastructure; health, human services, and
social programs; and homeland security and defense markets.
The
firm combines passion for its work with industry expertise and innovative
analytics to produce compelling results throughout the entire program life
cycle, from research and analysis through implementation and improvement. Since
1969, ICF has been serving government at
all
levels, major corporations, and multilateral institutions.
More
than 3,500 employees serve these clients worldwide.
ICF’s
Web site is www.icfi.com.
Job
Description:
The
International Health and Development Division of ICF Macro (formerly Macro
International Inc.) seeks a Monitoring and Evaluation Associate to join our
team.
The
Associate will work on the portfolio of public health related M&E
activities under USAID’s technical assistance (TA) project for global health
programs. The portfolio focuses primarily on the monitoring and evaluation of
programs directed at improving quality, availability and use of essential
health services.
He/She
will assist in providing technical inputs to strengthening, integration and use
of data management information systems and tools to facilitate data entry,
transmission and use.
Key
function of this position will be capacity building among information systems
users at the national, county, district and community levels of government and
health facility personnel.
The
position is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Specific
responsibilities include:
- Support development of health system and information requirements, analysis, design, specifications, piloting and testing, implementation and evaluation
- Support the implementation of one unified integrated system and use of information
- Work with Kenya MOH and all stakeholders to identify data collection and reporting requirements for strengthening and integrating the Community Health Information System
- Support Kenya MOH in developing standards, processes, systems and tools for ensuring the quality of routine health information
- Provide information on the status and progress of program activities and disseminate information and public reporting results, per client instructions, to interested parties
- Support stakeholder participation in development of information use products
- Contribute technical expertise to other projects as needed
Basic
Qualifications:
- Advanced University degree i.e. Masters in Public Health (MPH), or Masters Degree in health information strategy and policy, epidemiology, international health, demography, biostatistics or monitoring and evaluation
- 5 years professional experience working in health information systems with a demonstrated experience and understanding of stakeholder consultations, requirements analysis, indicator harmonization, data quality improvements and information use
- Demonstrated experience in organizational capacity building, collaboration with governments and non governmental entities
- Excellent English oral ad written communication skills
- Ability to work in a team environment with people of diverse backgrounds
ICF
offers an excellent benefits package, an award winning talent development
program, and fosters a highly skilled, energized and empowered workforce.
ICF
International is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer - M/F/D/V
To
express interest, please visit our website and apply online to job requisition
number 1100001674 at www.icfi.com/careers.
Application
Deadline is 2 September, 2011.
