Ministry of Health
Request for Applications
Terms of Reference for Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Department: Disease Control Directorate: National TB Programme
Job title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Project: Southern Africa Tuberculosis and Health Systems Support Project
Responsible to: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
- Background
The Kingdom of Lesotho is among four countries participating in the Southern Africa Tuberculosis and Health Systems Support Project funded by the World Bank. This is a five year project with overall objectives to: (i) improve coverage and quality of TB control and occupational lung disease services in targeted geographic areas of the participating countries; and (ii) strengthen regional capacity to manage the burden of TB and occupational diseases.
Lesotho is one of the 30 high TB burden countries in the world with an estimated annual incidence of 788 TB cases per every 100,000 population. Seventy four percent of TB cases are co-infected with HIV. TB treatment success rate has not gone beyond 74%, TB case fatality ratio is high and only a small proportion of TB re-treatment cases are offered testing for drug resistant TB bacilli. The mortality rate in TB/HIV co-infected TB patients is 223 per 100,000 population. Additionally, MDR-TB is on the rise with 3.2% and 6.8% of new and retreatment respectively TB cases are estimated to have MDR-TB. Despite Lesotho’s high burden of TB, TB/HIV and MDR-TB cases, the TB case detection rate is 49% which means more than half TB are not diagnosed and treated.
- Job Summary
Under the general supervision of the National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP) Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer will serve as main focal person for all M&E related activities for the Ministry of Health – National TB Programme. S/he will assist and report NTP Manager regarding M&E implemented activities. S/he will be responsible for coordinating and supporting the implementation of M&E plan of the Programme. The use of process evaluation for continued improvement of National TB Programme operations will be an additional role.
- Scope of Work
The incumbent will work as part of NTP Staff under the supervision and guidance of the Programme manager. The M&E officer will have the following duties:
- Lead development of M&E) plan of NTP and harmonise the work plans for each projects that are supporting the programme as well as overseeing the review of the implementation of the programme and be the focal person for coordination between NTP programme level M&E and projects level M&E
- Be responsible for sourcing up-to-date data for TB and TB/HIV data directly from all implementing organisations as per M&E plan.
- Develop quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports for NTP
- Support technical work such as reviewing M&E methods, carrying out training needs, designing M&E tools and advising M&E technical assistance.
- Ensuring mentoring and training of NTP team to foster capacity building on M&E knowledge.
- Participate in workshops, seminars, Strategic Information committees meetings to identify gaps and weaknesses in M&E and plan appropriate actions for improvement
- Analyze routine reporting data and conduct periodic dissemination meetings to present results of the implementation of programme activities
- Meet regularly with NTP staff and other stakeholders as appropriate to identify issues and to report programme accomplishments and challenges
- Ensure quality control of routine M&E outputs and participate in the design, development of the protocols, data collection tools, data verification techniques, and other technical evaluation and analytical tasks conducted under evaluations in the NTP.
- Participate in supportive supervision, Data Quality Audits (DQA) and Routine Data Quality Assessments (RDQAs).
- Serve as the evaluation team member of selected evaluations conducted under NTP
- Oversee and participate in evaluations and assessments of NTP. Review and provide technical advice related to different frameworks and indicators in the NTP M&E Plan.
- Accomplish others tasks related to monitoring and evaluation as per the need of programme as assigned by NTP manager.
- Duration of Assignment
24 months contract, dependent on performance
- Required Competencies
In addition to the above, the successful candidate is expected to demonstrate the following competencies:
- Familiarity with latest development in monitoring and evaluation practices
- Ability to critically assess the performance of health systems, to identify key challenges and solutions
- Lead and Innovate – encourages and works with others to identify, incubate and implement relevant solutions
- Possess excellent technical skills in socio-economic research and programme and project performance assessment
- Strong communication and facilitation skills and ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders in a sensitive environment. S/he must be able to respond quickly to requests for information
- S/he must demonstrate strong interpersonal and motivational skills and sensitivity to the different environment as well as the ability to work with minimal supervision
- Excellent data analytical skills and interpretation. S/he must have ability to write clearly and concisely, and have sound quantitative and qualitative skills
- Experience in project management and managing of other personnel under s/he supervision
- Shares new insights based on in- depth understanding of the Ministry of Health and recommends solutions for current and future needs.
- Application Instructions
Interested and suitably qualified candidates should forward their applications indicating the advertisement and position on the subject line of letter together with detailed curriculum vitae indicating work experience and certified certificates and Identity document. Day time telephone contacts, names and telephone contacts of 3 referees should be included in the CV.
Applications to reach the undersigned not later than 1st November, 2021 1200hour to:
Procurement Specialist, Procurement Unit Ground Floor, Ministry of Health, Corner constitution & Linare Roads, Kingdom of Lesotho, Telephone: (+266) 5988 7382.
Only shortlisted and successful candidates will be contacted within two weeks from submission deadline. If you do not receive a call and email from us consider application not successful.