Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Specialist

  • Full-time
  • Service Line: Consulting

Company Description

Deloitte provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. With a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries, Deloitte brings world-class capabilities and high-quality service to clients, delivering the insights they need to address their most complex business challenges. Deloitte has more than 415,000 professionals all committed to becoming the standard of excellence of professional services firms.

Deloitte’s professionals are dedicated to strengthening corporate responsibility, building public trust, and making a positive impact in their communities, and enjoy an environment of continuous learning, challenging experiences, and enriching career opportunities. All our professionals are united by our shared values, a set of core principles that guide our collective behavior. They set the expectations we have for one another and define how we, as stewards of Deloitte, should behave. They provide common ground to unite us across cultures and geographies. And, importantly, they help us to earn the trust and respect of our key stakeholders. Our shared values are: Lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact.

Deloitte East Africa provides seamless cross-border services to multinationals, large national enterprises, small and medium sized enterprises and the public sector, across three (3) countries in the region: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

A career with Deloitte offers you the opportunity to engage with and work alongside leading corporations within the East African region, and an opportunity to start and grow your career within a dynamic and rewarding environment. You will get the support, coaching and training needed to advance your career in Kenya and within the East Africa market.

What impact will you make?

At Deloitte we have a clear purpose, to make an impact that matters to our clients, our colleagues and our communities while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration and high performance. From professional development to leadership opportunities and career advancement, we empower our people to be their very best - because that’s how you make an impact.

About USAID Tuberculosis Program Support Activity

The purpose of this program is to support the Ministry of Health (MoH) to control and prevent tuberculosis (TB) in Kenya. This is in line with the USAID Kenya Country Development Cooperative Strategy (CDCS) 2020-2025, Development Objective 1: Key systems such as health, governance and markets are improved, and Development Objective 2: Resilience of vulnerable populations and environments improved.

USAID’s investments in the health sector, other development ministries & departments and civil society contribute to TB control either directly or indirectly. The direct support to TB care and prevention is a contribution which adds and is expected to coordinate with other USAID-funded activities such as: all the care and treatment clusters of HIV Kenya Health Partnerships for Quality Services (KHPQS), Sustaining use of Kenya Health Information System program, Human Resources for Health (HRH) and other Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) Kenya programs, the Supply Chains programs and other USAID-funded activities. The USAID support also leverages investments by the Global Fund on TB and HIV, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop TB Partnership, the MoH and the county governments, and other development partners.

The envisaged program is expected to continue covering diagnosis of TB, treatment of diagnosed patients and prevention of transmission of TB, besides spearheading introduction of new technologies and approaches, and sustain the gains made in control of TB in Kenya. The overall goal and objective of the program is to ensure improvement of key systems such as health, governance and markets as well as improvement of resilience of vulnerable populations and environments.

Program Objectives:

  • Increase detection of all forms of TB
  • Increase TB treatment success
  • Strengthen the prevention of TB among people at risk
  • Strengthen capacity and sustainability for TB control

Main purpose of the job

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Specialist will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the program monitoring and evaluation framework and information system to track delivery against targets, outcomes and impacts. They will lead the analysis of data collected for assessment of progress and areas of improvement, and overall data management. They will guide reporting processes amongst technical staff and consolidate program reports and promote learning and knowledge sharing of best practices and lessons learned. They will support all the technical staff in MEL functions and will manage any MEL related staff in the program. Deloitte is seeking to fill this potential position for the above upcoming USAID Tuberculosis Program Support activity and the opportunity is contingent upon award. The position will be based in our Nairobi office, in Kenya.

Job Description

  • Lead the design and implementation of the project’s monitoring and evaluation activities, including the development of the project’s Monitoring and Evaluation plan; development and monitoring of project indicators; oversight of data collection and analysis; synthesis of data and project outcomes; data quality assessments and auditing of data.
  • Lead the design and implementation of the project’s research activities, including operations research, performance evaluations, impact evaluations and rapid/special studies. Lead efforts to identify key research questions and develop studies that test innovative strategies for addressing improving the quality and uptake of health services.
  • Develop and lead implementation of strategies for institutional and individual capacity building on data collection, collation and reporting procedures.
  • Build institutional and individual capacity of staff, implementing partners, government counterparts in county and sub-county levels, and other stakeholders in program monitoring and evaluation, data collection and management, report and use of data for program planning and improvements.
  • Oversee the dissemination of information on successful and promising approaches, lessons learned and other program results to local, national and regional-level intergovernmental bodies, donors, partners and other stakeholders. Promote forums which facilitate collaboration, learning and action as a result of this information among these actors.
  • Ensure that data from the project is fed into national health management information systems and promote its use among stakeholders for learning and policy development and programming.
  • Ensure research implementation adheres to the project and international policies and standards and remains technically and ethically sound. Usher research protocols through the projects Internal review board and national external review processes.
  • Monitor and maintain relevant protocols, instruments, data sets, manuals, training materials and reports.
  • Oversee a team of monitoring, evaluation and research staff for the project and ensure clear roles and responsibilities and lines of communication are maintained amongst the team members.
  • Contribute to work plans, quarterly and annual reports, financial reports, and other reports and papers summarizing project results and evidence.
  • Deliver presentations at professional meetings and conferences.

Qualifications

  • A Master’s degree in a relevant discipline, such as mathematics, statistics, informatics, biostatistics, information systems or a related field with knowledge/skills of Geographical Information Systems and information technology.
  • At least ten years of experience implementing monitoring and evaluating activities for complex programs in developing countries.
  • Demonstrated experience in providing technical support, setting up and managing M&E systems that track performance as per the objectives of this activity (e.g. performance against each result area) and in the application of statistical methods and database management.

Additional Information

Preferred Qualifications and Experience

  • Skilled in field with sound industry and business knowledge.
  • Demonstrated leadership skills.
  • Proven ability to manage and execute projects.
  • Good financial knowledge.

Behavioural competencies

  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Good interpersonal and relationship building skills.
  • Good Leadership, supervisory and influencing skills.
  • Good coordination and organization skills.
  • Strong client delivery focus.
  • Adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease.
  • Focus on quality and risk.
  • Problem solving ability.
  • Good business acumen.
  • Diligent and quick learner
  • Proactive and has the ability to assess a situation and independently take action to address it.

Your role as a leader

At Deloitte we believe in the importance of leadership at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters.

Leadership Capabilities

Living our Purpose - Acts as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values, and recognizing others for the impact they make.

Influence - Influences clients, teams, and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people.

Performance drive - Delivers exceptional client service; maximizes results and drives high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders.

Strategic direction - Understands key objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligns people to objectives and sets priorities and direction.

Talent development - Develops high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities.

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there is always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world.

Deloitte opens the door to a career that can cross borders virtually and physically across the African continent and globally to gain experience and access projects beyond our borders. We value difference, and embrace people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities and thinking styles.

Our purpose

Deloitte is led by a purpose: to make an impact that matters. Every day, Deloitte people are making a real impact in the places they live and work. We pride ourselves on doing not only what is good for clients, but also what is good for our people and the communities in which we live and work—always striving to be an organization that is held up as a role model of quality, integrity, and positive change. Learn more about Deloitte’s impact on the world. #Makinganimpactthatmatters

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If you meet the above requirements, please visit our website and apply online: Deloitte East Africa Careers portal

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Closing date: 23 August 2023

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not ask individuals to pay any fees or money as part of the recruitment process. Women and Persons with Disabilities are encouraged to apply.

 

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