Background:
The Ministry of Health (MOH) will be receiving funding from the Global Fund to support the implementation of TB and HIV programmes. The main goal of the grant is sustaining gains made in HIV treatment and improving the quality of the programme, accelerating HIV prevention, addressing human rights barriers to assessing services, strengthening health and community systems to improve HIV, TB and SRH outcomes, scaling up the MDR -TB care and prevention and PLHIV given co-infection. To enable MOH Global Fund supported activities effectively, workforce is required to fill posts on fixed contract until 31st March 2027.
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
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 harmonize the work plans for each project 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 committee’s 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.
- Participated in supportive supervision, Data Quality Audits (DQA) and Routine Data Quality Assessments (RDQAs).
- Participate in research and evaluation.
Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in social sciences/Demography/Statistic and Postgraduate diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation will be an added advantage.
- Five years Minimum working experience in Monitoring and Evaluation of TB and HIV Programmes
- Minimum three years working experience in Monitoring and Evaluation in the Public Health field.
- Minimum three years working experience in donor funded Programmes.
Application Instructions
- Submission – Interested Candidates should send email and indicate position on the subject to: senate.lerotholi1@gov.ls and cc to annahmasetsoto@gmail.com before 16h30 on 21st June 2024.
- The application shall include covering letter accompanied by detailed CV and certified copies of their academic and training certificates, certified copy of their National Identity Card and full names and contact details of 3 Referees.
Human Resource Department
Ministry of Health,
P.O. Box 514,
Maseru 100, Lesotho.
Contacts: (266) 22314183