Health Builders/Access Project (R06-USA),Mnitoring & Evaluation Program Associate Jobs in Rwanda

Job description

Monitoring
& Evaluation Program Associate at Health Builders/Access Project (R06-USA)

About
the Global Health Corps Fellowship:

Global Health
Corps is a one-year paid fellowship that pairs young professionals with
orga
nizations (fellowship placement organizations) that require new thinking
and innovative solutions. We believe that great ideas don’t change the world,
great PEOPLE do! The fellowship begins in July 2015 and extends through August
2016. Fellows engage in professional development training, mentorship and thoughtful
community-building, and continue to draw upon their fellowship experience and
the GHC alumni network as they build careers of lasting impact.

Applicants
can apply for up to 3 different fellowship positions, such as the one described
below.
To see the full list of fellowship positions, go to:http://ghcorps.org/fellows/apply/through-placements/.

Fellows are
placed in organizations in pairs – one international fellow and one local
fellow from the placement country – creating a fellowship team that is a
central part of the fellowship experience.

About
the Fellowship Placement Organization: Health Builders/Access Project believes
that health is at the heart of human progress. Our vision is for Rwanda to be a
healthy, prosperous, and self-sustaining nation. Understanding good health as a
fundamental driver of economic growth and development, our mission is for every
individual in Rwanda to have local access to high quality health care and
life-saving medication. We accomplish our mission through three main work
streams:

1. Advancing Health
Management.
Our team works with district and health center staff to provide hands-on
technical assistance and supportive supervision in eight key areas: human
resources, infrastructure, financial management, community health insurance
management, pharmacy logistics, health information systems, planning and
coordination, and information technology.

2. Developing Health
Infrastructure.
We fill infrastructure gaps by initiating and overseeing the construction of
state-of-the-art, modern health centers where they currently do not exist, or
where existing facilities are too dilapidated to function.

3. Supporting Technology for
Health.
We work with partners on the ground to ensure that innovative technology
solutions for improved health outcomes are effective, sustainable, and
scalable. Many of our initiatives are focused on improving maternal and child
health.

Fellowship
Position Overview:The Monitoring and Evaluation Program Associate will
primarily support the Deputy Country Director in assessing our maternal and
child health and management programs. Responsibilities may include: obtaining
ethics approval as necessary for research, developing data collection tools,
completing data collection and analysis, reporting, and building capacity in
monitoring and evaluation skills and tools. Additional support may be required
towards our work in advancing health management, which may include: advising
field-based staff to refine and hone health center-based management
interventions, monitoring, evaluation, and oversight to ensure the efficacy of
our health system strengthening efforts, and building the technical capacity of
our staff in technical, quantitative, analytical, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities:

Support the monitoring and evaluation
of programs, including assisting with ethics approval, tools development,
data collection and analysis, reporting, and using evidence to inform
interventions and outcomes
Work with staff to develop and
streamline management intervention tools across six interventions
districts. This area of work may include:
Developing and improving
data collection and management systems at the district, health center,
and/or hospital level, with a focus on key health indicators, ensuring
regular, high-quality data collection and analysis, and timely, strategic
response to reporting
Devising or improving
systems for management of drug and equipment supplies, including
forecasting, procurement, and distribution
Working at the district
hospital and health center level to evaluate and improve systems these
facilities use to manage and organize their finances and accounting
Working with mutuelles
(local community-based health insurance schemes) to create management
systems designed to ensure that the population has financial access to
health services
Assess management systems at the
district and health center level, review status reports, which include
supply chain management, budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, and
reporting, and work with staff to develop strategies to improve those
systems
Build technical capacity among staff
including but not limited to Excel fluency, analytical capabilities,
accounting skills, and planning capabilities

Required
Skills and Experience:

Strong analytical skills,
particularly in quantitative analysis and/or biostatistics
Experience in community based
training or assessment programs
Ability to work as part of a team,
but also capable of working independently and taking self-initiative,
without significant oversight
Prepared to travel extensively
in-country
Comfort living and working in rural,
low-resource settings
Extraordinary flexibility and
innovation in unexpected situations
Proficiency in Microsoft Office
(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
Proficiency using email

Preferred
Skills and Experience:

A Master’s degree in Public Health,
preferred coursework in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Statistics, etc.
Knowledge of quantitative and
qualitative analysis methods
Strong interest and prior experience
in global public health programming, particularly maternal/neonatal health
Prior exposure to global public
health and/or development issues; past experience living in Africa or
other resource-poor settings
Strong interpersonal, organizational,
coordination, and communication skills (inclusive of verbal, written,
listening, presentation and facilitation skills with comfort in a training
role)
Ability to work in French
Experience using QuickBooks, database
management software

Fellows
receive the following benefits:

Monthly living stipend
Housing
Utilities stipend
Health insurance
A professional development grant of
$600
A completion award of $1500
An advising program that pairs each
fellow with an advisor in his/her area of work or interest
A two-week Training Institute at Yale
University in the United States to begin the fellowship
A five-day End-of-Year retreat in
East Africa to finish the fellowship
Three multi-day trainings during the
year
Travel to and from placement site,
all trainings, and retreats
Professional development and personal
support from a dedicated in-country program manager
Personal development and
accompaniment program led by Still Harbor