REPORTING TO:

Nutrition, Environmental Health, and Non-communicable Disease Research Directorate

LOCATION:

Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa

Main Duties Include:

The Ethiopian Public Health Institute is seeking a specialist in monitoring, evaluation and learning to work on the NIPN project. The main duties are: 

To provide technical expertise, advice, support and build the capacity of the national nutrition organizations and the constituent ministries involved in the NIPN to identify and track progress indicators and to evaluate the impact of programmes and interventions to improve nutritional outcomes. 

To identify, summarize and report the lessons learned by programmes from monitoring reports and programme evaluations that could contribute towards understanding how to improve human nutrition; 

To support the work of the NIPN Policy Unit and the NIPN Analysis Unit to undertake analysis at the request of the NIPN advisory committee; 

To design and implement a monitoring and evaluation system for the NIPN project and contribute to project learning processes and outputs. 

Job Requirements

M.Sc. degree in Nutrition, Public Health or a specialist qualification related to Monitoring and Evaluating programmes. 

Required experience: 

•   Five years’ experience of working as a monitoring and evaluation specialist with involvement in institutional learning around public health programmes and interventions. 

Required skills and expertise:

•        Proven experience of monitoring and evaluating projects, programmes and interventions in public health or nutrition; 

•        Proven involvement in extracting lessons learned from monitoring and evaluations and presenting them in written documents for the purposes of institutional learning and dissemination; 

•        Ability to write reports in English. 

•        Examples of reports written should be provided with the application. 

Detailed description of duties and responsibilities: 

• Contribute to national monitoring and evaluation systems for nutrition by providing technical expertise, advice and support to the national nutrition organisation to be able to monitor and evaluate nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programmes, including the description of specific methods and tools and the identification of strengths and weaknesses in existing data collection and management systems. Identify data gaps in data and how those gaps might be filled; 

• Contribute to the collection and analysis of lessons learnt and best practices from nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programmes, nationally and internationally, by reviewing literature and collating and synthesizing information; 

• Contribute to the lessons learnt, best practices, programme data, evaluations and other information to generate result-based communication pieces for influencing decision makers about improving nutrition; 

• Keep informed about developments and resources from the M&E community worldwide and develop and facilitate workshops and training courses for staff of the national nutrition programme, ministries and partners to develop and apply tools, processes and best practices to develop a culture of high quality, evidence-based programming and learning; 

• Set up an M&E system for the NIPN. Design the NIPN M&E framework with support from Senior Advisors and ensure the implementation of the NIPN M&E plan to track performance against targets and measure the dissemination and impact of NIPN outputs. Lead quantitative and qualitative monitoring, evaluation and assessment of NIPN activities and outputs. Contribute to annual project reporting to donors and national stakeholders. Participate in the NIPN community of practice to share experiences and lessons learnt with other NIPN countries. 

Duration

• 1 year with possible extension based on availability of budget

How to Apply

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Send their CVs and relevant documents at the address given below within 07 days from the first appearance of the announcement

Remarks: Please attach copies of transcripts, academic degree or recommendation letters together with the application. If not attached the copies you may be not short listed.