Various Jobs Vacancies at JSI March 2024, Jobs JSI is dedicated to improving people’s lives around the world through greater health, education, and socioeconomic equity for individuals and communities, and to providing an environment where people of passion can pursue this cause. JSI is currently recruiting for a Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Director for an upcoming USAID-funded supply chain and pharmaceutical strengthening project in Tanzania.
The purpose of this activity is to strengthen systems and provide operational support to ensure sustainable access to and appropriate use of safe, effective, quality-assured, affordable health commodities. This position is contingent upon an award from USAID.
1. Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Director
The MEL Director will be responsible for coordinating the development of a performance management plan, including performance-monitoring criteria and ensuring continuous monitoring of Activity progress. Primary responsibilities also include organizing and coordinating data collection and analysis, and interpreting and reporting on Activity results to key stakeholders. Evaluation and monitoring activities will be designed to enable program managers in the field to identify problems and their causes, and improve overall program performance. The MEL Director will also coordinate MEL program implementation activities conducted alongside the technical team, to strengthen supply chains and technical assistance. The MEL Director is a member of the Senior Management Team of the project and reports to the Chief of Party.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and implement a comprehensive M&E framework for program, including the development of a MEL plan, Theory of Change, Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan, etc.;
- Establish and monitor defined M&E indicators; ensure data is reviewed and utilized throughout program implementation and provided to senior management team for CLA approaches;
- Determine M&E functional responsibilities within the Activity team and data management responsibilities are supported at district health offices for improved reporting and data comprehension; Various Jobs Vacancies at JSI March 2024
- Serve as the focal point for M&E and devise strategies with the technical and communication team to ensure consistency in the use of data and quality reporting;
- Maintain systems to routinely collect and analyze information on inputs, outputs, outcomes and impact to ensure effectiveness of interventions;
- Support subcontractors, private sector, and local government partners to identify, monitor, and report high quality data, ensuring timely submissions;
2. Deputy Chief of Party
The Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) is responsible for providing strategic and technical supply chain vision, oversight and leadership for the project. The DCOP will be responsible for ensuring supply chain innovation and best practices, successful implementation, and adaptive monitoring, learning and evaluation of technical activities and elements of the project. Reporting to the Chief of Party, the DCOP is a member of the Senior Management Team of the project.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Set the overall supply chain direction for the project and developing relevant indicators of success;
- Oversee and effectively manage the performance of the technical supply chain activities and elements, and project deliverables in line with the overall technical direction;
- Provide technical supply chain oversight and direction to the project’s technical team
- With the Chief of Party, substantively contribute to project work planning;
- Oversee report writing to the donor;
- Serve as a member of the project’s Senior Management Team and manage a team of people to execute the project;
- Supervise and assess the performance of senior staff and ensure supervisory and accountability systems are in place for all long-term and short-term advisors, subpartners, consultants and staff
3. Chief of Party
The Chief of Party is responsible for strategic and managerial oversight, project quality and team leadership. The COP encourages innovation and oversees project coordination, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. The COP will be the official representative of JSI for this program. As such, they will build and maintain excellent communications and professional relationships between all relevant parties including the government counterparts, USAID and other partners.
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership, management and strategic direction towards the achievement of project goals, objectives, and targets;
- Oversee program implementation, providing the strategic direction, technical vision, and approach;
- Manage the project team and consortium members;
- Represent the project to USAID and to the MOH and ensure that the project activities are meeting client and stakeholder expectations and that project results are proactively disseminated, and learnings are shared and incorporated to continuously improve;
- Ensure compliance with the terms of the award and USAID operational policies and regulations;
Mode of Application
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