Senior M&E Consultant Career Opportunity: UNDP

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Vacancy Announcement (Re-Advertisement)

I. Consultancy Information
Title: Senior M&E Consultant - National
Name of the Project: Global Fund to fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Supervisor: Director General HIV/ HIV/AIDS Specialist '
Contract Type: Special Service Agreement (SSA)
Duration: 11 months (proposed start date: 1 October (2008)
Deadline: 10 November 2008
No of Post: 1
Email Applications to: bids.juba.gf @ undp.org
Delivery by Hand: ATT: Tokumitsu Kobayashi
PSM Specialist, UNDP Southern Sudan, Juba, Southern Sudan

Interested candidates (Sudanese National only) should apply by sending their Letter of Interest and CV to: bids.Juba.gf @ undp.org or drop a sealed envelope marked Confidential with the title of the position at UNDP Office in Juba by 16:00 Juba Time on 10 November 2008. The available starting date and fees of the assignment which is subject to negotiation if applicable shall be clearly stated in the Letter of Interest.

Women Candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

II. Background
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has been designated as the Principal Recipient (PR) for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) in South Sudan. UNDP has signed Grant Agreements (GAs) for the prevention and control of the spread of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), Tuberculosis and HIV (TB-HIV) and Malaria.

In the discharge of its M&E responsibilities UNDP will be assisted by thematic technical working-groups for the three areas and will provide ongoing technical support to the sub-recipients (SRs). Additionally, the technical sub groups will facilitate monitoring, supervision and reporting.

The global fund places strong emphasis on the capacity building and strengthening of the key Partner institutions in order to promote ownership and sustainability of projects.

Ministry of Health HIV and AIDS Directorate is mandated to lead the health sector response of HIV and AIDS in south Sudan. As with many of the institutions of the government of south Sudan that are experiencing the capacity gaps brought about as a result of the prolonged civil war and the resulting destruction of infrastructure, the HIV and AIDS directorate is newly established and among other things is facing shortage of Human Resource in Key technical areas

III. Project

A review of national HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation has indicated some of the following challenges:

• Existence of many HIV/AIDS M&E systems which are not in any way linked to the national HIV/AIDS strategy redelivery goals
• Poor linkages between stakeholder HIV/AlDS M&E systems with national HIV/AIDS coordination bodies' (NACs) M&E systems
• Existence of good M&E systems but poor analysis of such data to inform the stakeholders of the situation of HIV/AIDS in HIV and AIDS
  

Limited capacities among stakeholder to appreciate the importance of M&E for HIV/AIDS intervention. The HIV/AIDS directorate; ministry of health is seeking for the expertise of a senior M&E consultant- national who will lead the M&E component for the ministry in close collaboration with the Research and M&E department of the Ministry of health and partner agencies.

The Senior M&E Consultant will be based at the HIV directorate at the Ministry of health and work under the overall leadership and supervision of the director general of HIV. He /she will report to the Director General of HIV in the ministry and the HIV specialist at UNDP

Specific Tasks
Under the overall supervision of the Ministry of Health-HIV/AIDS Directorate, the Senior M&E Consultant will:

• The senior M&E consultant will provide technical support and oversee -MIS for the directorate.
  
• Responsible for the design of monitoring and evaluation systems and tools for national, sector HIV and AIDS strategies.
• Review and analyze existing national systems for monitoring HIV and AIDS interventions.
  
• Setting up effective and well-coordinated evaluation systems (between national coordination bodies and multi-sectoral stakeholders)
  
• Knowledge on analysis of evaluation information data bases
• Develop M&E plans and performance based framework for the HIV directorate and coordination of M&E reviews.
  
• Conduct periodic M&E visits to health facilities and organize training of relevant staffs in M&E.
  
• Develop quality assurance systems for M&E
  
• Focal person for compilation of relevant reports (quarterly, annual etc) for the directorate.

Methodology
The senior M&E consultant will work closely with the Director General of HIV at the MOH-HIV/AIDS Directorate as well as other counterparts in the Southern Sudan AIDS Commission, CDC, UNICEF, WHO, UNAIDS and other partners to accomplish the development of the M&E plan as well as set up functioning M&E system. He/she will be based at MoH- HIV Directorate with travel to project sites.

IV. Deliverables
1. M&E systems and tools in place
2. M&E plan for HIV for the directorate.
3. work plan for M&E activities
4. reports of the M&E site visits
5. relevant M&E tools developed
6. finalized M&E framework
7. quality assurance system for M&E in place

V. Duration of Consultancy
Eleven (11) months

VI. Desired Qualification & Experience

• University degree in biostatics, mathematics or related field
• At least Syears experience in monitoring and evaluation preferably of HIV/AIDS
• The incumbent must have extensive experience and knowledge in designing Monitoring and Evaluation Systems for National, Sector HIV and AIDS Strategies.
• Experience in epidemiology, social science research including questionnaires development, data collection and analysis.
• Proficiency in word processing, databases and spreadsheets, including advanced skills in at least two of the following programs: SPSS, Excel, Epi Info, Stata, and Ms Access.
  
• Demonstrated experience with Health MIS.
• Experience in setting up data bases and presenting statistical reports
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Good knowledge of spoken and written English as well as ability to draft reports.

Notice: UNDP, as a matter of practice, does not charge any application, processing or training fee at any stage of the recruitment process.

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