Population Services International Job Vacancy for Strategic Information Director, Ethiopia

Position Title: Strategic Information Director Department/Program: Business Analytics Level: AIII Reports to: Chief of Party Based in: Addis Ababa Duration of contract: Indefinite based on performance and availability of funds Remuneration: As per organization pay scale plus other PSI Ethiopia staff benefits Application Deadline: November 16, 2017

We are Population Services International (PSI), the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. We work to make it easier for people in the developing world to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire by marketing affordable products and services that range from mosquito nets to contraceptives to HIV testing. We are a $560m enterprise based in Washington, DC, operating in the private and public sectors in more than 65 countries.

Join us!

There are over 9,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. It’s a diverse group of entrepreneurs and professionals with an unusually wide range of backgrounds – from the medical industry to the music business – all with unique skills we bring to the job.

PSI Ethiopia is an innovative network member of PSI with a team of more than 140 people passionate about marketing and dedicated to serving Sara! Since 2003, we have marketed products and led programs to prevent HIV, improve reproductive health, and improve child health. We market condoms and increase condom use among people most at risk of HIV. We increase access to clean water by selling Wuha Agar, a water disinfectant. At PSI Ethiopia we do more than simply provide products and services, we seek to create true change – buy making markets work for the poor – to increase the use of critical health products and services that are available, affordable, and desirable to the most vulnerable Ethiopian people

Your contribution

  • Monitor, document and analyze the performance of community-based health services as a basis for accountability, advocacy and policy activities, and ensuring standards and quality of care
  • Liaise with relevant program management and technical staff on health-related strategic information for activities related to strengthening the continuum of care and the “three 90s” goal at community level
  • Lead and own the development, tracking and implementation of a program/performance monitoring plan (PMP) in close work relation with USAID
  • Provide technical guidance and support to sub-awards in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of HIV services
  • Review, adapt, and create standardized tools and indicators to measure HIV interventions that capture relevant outcomes
  • Design and reinforce use of processes and tools to bring “evidence-to-action”
  • Design tools and processes to ensure quality of data
  • Design tools and processes to monitor and evaluate expenditures against program achievements, and provide data for decision making
  • In collaboration with the Finance Director, assess program value for money
  • In collaboration with program and technical staff, identify strategic needs for operational research and evaluation, and oversee implementation
  • Lead an integrated DHIS2 platform aligned with the Government of Ethiopia’s data information system and US government systems for efficient data generation and use

Your KPIs

  • Quality and timeliness of reporting
  • Expenditure analysis
  • Data quality

Your background

  • A Master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, monitoring & evaluation, demography, biostatistics, or statistics
  • Minimum of 5 years of work experience in establishing/ designing M&E systems and tools, and managing data-intensive programs, preferably in health
  • Experience with qualitative and quantitative M&E data collection and analysis methods, including tracking outcome indicators
  • Experience in program quality management (both service and data quality) and operational research
  • Knowledge of M&E and data quality management related to health programs
  • Demonstrated experience and knowledge in health programs to provide support and guidance to project staff on design, monitoring and evaluation

Additional desired qualifications include:

  • Demonstrated capacity in DHIS2 use and system management
  • Demonstrated knowledge of USAID and GoE monitoring and evaluation and quality management processes and systems
  • Experience conducting epidemiological analysis
  • Experience developing systems to collect individual client data and run big data analytics

Are you intrigued? Apply!

Send us your CV with updated cover letter through ethiojobs.net before/on November 16, 2017 and we’ll call or e-mail you back if you meet the requirements above.

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.

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