About Ohio State Global One Health 

Ohio State Global One Health, LLC (Ohio State GOH, LLC) is an affiliate entity of The Ohio State University working on a range of Global Health Security related projects targeting laboratory, surveillance, and one health workforce capacity strengthening through applied education, training, and research throughout Ethiopia. Ohio State Global One Health works various Ministries, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Regional Health Bureaus, Universities and other research institutions. 

About the Opportunity 

Ohio State Global One Health is seeking for Chief of Party (COP), Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP)/Technical Director (TD), Senior Advisor (MEL Manager) and Finance and Operations Manager to support an anticipated five-year USAID-funded project intended to reduce the impact of infectious disease outbreaks on morbidity and mortality through building a resilient One Health surveillance, diagnostics and workforce development capacities. The Health Security Activity (HSA) will achieve this through strengthening Ethiopia’s capacity to detect infectious disease outbreaks early, supporting the subnational laboratory systems to diagnose resistant and zoonotic pathogens and building a one health workforce to respond to any emerging or re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks. The location for all positions will be in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the employment type will be full-time one-year contract with a possibility of annual renewal depending upon the availability of funds and successful performance. The employment will be pending on receipt of funding from USAID upon submission of proposal.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

The MEL Manager will develop and manage the award’s monitoring and evaluation system and processes including performance monitoring and reporting, operational research, and ensure evaluations are consistent with the award’s expected results, and track progress of activities in achieving the award’s goal and outcomes. The MEL Manager shall ensure that the methodologies proposed by Ohio State Global One Health to measure the impact of the activity on the results are consistently and systematically monitored and reported. Under the leadership of the COP and DCOP, the MEL Manager will also lead the adaptation management design and coordinate implementation required under this award to ensure adaptation measurements and course correction are put into place as required to change dynamics within the country and within the health sector.

Job Requirements

Education:

• Minimum master’s degree in public health epidemiology, health informatics,biostatistics or related field.

Knowledge and skills:

• Exceptional ability to analyze multiple sources of data to identify data trends and to provide recommendations on project implementation.

Experience:

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in monitoring, evaluation and research related to health development projects, including quantitative and qualitative research. Demonstrated experience in supporting effective integration of surveillance systems including geospatial data for improved planning, leading and building the capacity of M&E officers, including remote, field-based staff, to meet project needs and deliverables is strongly desired. Previous senior technical experiences in U.S. Government-funded surveillance, data management of related activities in Ethiopia or similar context.

Language:

• Fluency of English in reading, writing, speaking (Level IV) is required and additional fluency in Amharic will be preferred.

How to Apply

• Interested applicants should send their letter of application and CV within 5 working days of the vacancy announcement through THIS LINK

• Each applicant should include at least three (3) professional references for each written within the last five (5) years

• Applications (together with CV) and reference letters should be sent as one pdf file on one email message. Multiple emails might be rejected.