Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Mission for Essential Drugs and Supplies (MEDS)

Position Overview

The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will report to the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager and will be responsible for implementing, designing and coordinating monitoring, evaluation and learning activities across organizational operations. This role ensures data-driven decision making through effective performance tracking, analysis and reporting aligned with strategic objectives and organizational requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Support implementation of the organization's MEL framework ensuring alignment with established Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Develop and maintain data collection tools, trackers and performance dashboards to monitor organizational performance
• Build capacity of staff in data collection methods, tools, MEL framework, indicator tracking and reporting to enhance data management skills
• Conduct routine data quality assessments to verify accuracy, reliability, and consistency of data collected and reported by organizational functions
• Track key organizational activities against set targets to monitor progress and identify issues of concern
• Update dashboards and scorecards to monitor performance
• Prepare periodic progress reports to support decision-making
• Assess organizational performance against set targets to evaluate progress and outcomes
• Validate process outputs to ensure effectiveness and alignment with set objectives
• Document success stories, produce periodic publications and evidence-based abstracts to showcase achievements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Health, Statistics, Data Science, Health Records and Information Management, or related field
• At least 5 years of relevant experience
• Proficiency in MEL tools and software (Excel, Power BI, KoboToolbox, etc.)

Required Skills

• Project management
• Monitoring and evaluation expertise
• Data analysis and dissemination
• Advanced Excel skills
• Data visualization

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced certification in data science analytics for large data sets (e.g., R, STATA, Epi Info)