Local Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning officer at Expertise France

Local Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning officer (M/W)

Département Santé - DEPSAN > Pôle Renforcement des systèmes de santé

Published on : 29/04/2024

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA  RWANDA  KIGALI

Mission description

Job summary:

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer will be placed within the project team. Under the supervision of the Project Manager, and in functional liaison with the Monitoring-Evaluation-Learning Coordinator at headquarters, he/she will bring his/her expertise to the project team and to the project's institutional and operational partners in the development and use of monitoring-evaluation and learning tools. He/she will ensure that the project is documented, monitored, analysed and capitalised on the process, results and lessons learned from the project.

The position is assigned the following objectives:

• Contribute to the management and effective implementation of the project by ensuring its monitoring and evaluation in accordance with the requirements of Expertise France and the donor (AFD);
• Coordinate the overall M&E-Learning strategy of the project and support its implementation in conjunction with the project team and its institutional and operational partners;
• Ensure the appropriation and use of monitoring-evaluation-learning tools by the stakeholders

Main tasks and responsibilities:

Development and implementation of a harmonized M&E framework for the project

• Participate in the development and implementation of a participatory monitoring and evaluation system adapted to the project
• Implement collection and analysis tools (forms, development of strong and rigorous databases, etc.) that facilitate the monitoring activities progress and guide for decision making for corrective measures
• Establish a system for filing and archiving digital and paper data (reports,
• Identify M&E capacity development needs of EF project teams and partners and plan necessary capacity building or training actions in particular for Ruhengeri Referral Hospital;

Leading of the project monitoring, evaluation and learning activities

• Ensure the reliability, quality and relevance of the data collected for objective analyse
• Follow up on performance indicators, data and tools relevant to the project and share findings with the project leader and alert on significant deviations
• Participate in the preparation and implementation of project reviews (annual and semi-annual) of the project
• Participate in the preparation of project report internal and for donor by integrating data from the monitoring and evaluation system
• Conduct participatory M&E of project activities to measure quantitative as well as qualitative impact.
• Lead project baseline, midterm and final evaluation (develop ToR, participate in recruitment if needed, development of tools, reporting etc )

Capitalization

• ASsist project leader in capitalization, documentation and dissemination of the good practices, achievements, and innovations of the programme;
• Assist the project leader in organization and facilitation of capitalization activities such as review meeting, workshop etc.
• Undertake beneficiaries and partners satisfactory survey for project improvement purpose

Support project communication and partner engagement activities

• Participate in coordination meetings, steering committee, brainstorming sessions and workshops at the request of Project leader
• Develop communication support to enhance project and Expertise France visibility in country

Project or context description

Rwanda's National Strategic Plan for the health sector (2018 - 2024), which has been defined by the Ministry of Health, aims to improve four key sectors identified for health development by 2024:

• Increasing sustainable social protection;
• Extending access to essential health services to combat communicable and non-communicable diseases;
• Strengthening healthcare systems;
• Strengthening health safety and the resilience of the healthcare system.

In addition to this strategic plan, there is a programme to train human resources in the health sector, which provides for the training of around 6,000 medical and paramedical professionals over 10 years (to 2028).

In June 2021, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning submitted a request to the French Development Agency (AFD) to provide fund for the first phase of a project to rebuild the Ruhengeri Hospital. The hospital's current capacity is 320 beds, and the aim of the project is to build a modern 600-bed structure to offer a wide range of activities: medical imaging, outpatient consultations (dentistry, surgery, maternity and neonatology, physiotherapy, paediatrics and ENT), inpatient services and patient rooms, emergency services, gynaecology and obstetrics, intensive care, infection prevention and control services.

The hospital in Ruhengeri, capital of the Musanze district, is a referral hospital for the population of the North and part of the population of the Western Province. The hospital also receives patients from the Democratic Republic of Congo, as it is located close to the border. The recruitment base in Ruhengeri hospital is substantial, and there is a growing need for health services, especially specialists in health services.

Following AFD's identification mission in February 2022, the authorities validated the opportunity to support the Rwandan authorities in this project. This support will take the form of a loan dedicated to the rehabilitation of the hospital.

In addition to the loan to rehabilitate the Ruhengeri hospital, AFD is providing financing to improve access to quality healthcare throughout the country. Within this framework, Expertise France has been granted funding of €4 million to implement a project to strengthen human resources in the health sector in Rwanda and to build the capacity of the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), with particular emphasis on project management for the Ruhengeri hospital.

The RBC, created in 2011, is Rwanda's central health implementation agency, one of whose missions is to manage hospital investment projects.

The Project:

The general objective of the project is to improve access to healthcare for the population of Rwanda, and specifically in the Northern Province.

The project consists of two parts:

• Component 1:Improving the availability and quality of human health resources in Rwanda, particularly in Musanze province

This component involves strengthening the priority medical and paramedical specialities identified by the Rwandan authorities in Kigali and Musanze, as well as strengthening hospital management functions.

• Component 2:Strengthening the capacity of RBC in its function as contracting authority for hospital investment projects and supporting it in managing work on the Ruhengeri hospital (Musanze district).

The aim here is to strengthen the various hospital engineering professions through training, but also to support the RBC in its mission to act as project manager for the rehabilitation of the Ruhengeri hospital and to assist the Rwandan authorities with the opening of the hospital.

Required profile

Required profile 

• Advance degree relevant field such as Public Health, Health Economic, Statistics, Sociology, Demographics, and other field related to monitoring and evaluation ;
• At least 5 years' professional experience in functions related to Monitoring and Evaluation Accountability and Learning in monitoring, evaluation and learning of donor funded development activities, including implementation of baseline and midline and end line surveys and development of M&E database preferably in the health sector ;
• Fundamentals project management skills are an asset;
• Experience of working on AFD/ EU-funded cooperation projects is also an asset.

Technical competences

• Excellent knowledge of tools and methodologies related to project cycle ;
• Management, results-based management, quality assurance and gender mainstreaming;
• Good knowledge of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for development programmes and projects;
• Mastery of the main monitoring and evaluation tools and methods (quantitative and qualitative) and their use in the field; 
• Mastery of project or programme evaluation (baseline, midterm, end line)
• Experience on capitalisation and learning workshop facilitation;
• Design, database management and data exploitation for consumer communication;
• Good knowledge of data collection software (Kobo Tool Box, Survey CTO, ODK, etc.), data analysis ( SPSS, Stata, etc.) and data visualization software (Power BI);
• Ability to manage and analyse information in a critical and methodical manner.

Skills 

• Rigor and organizational skills
• Ability to anticipate and be proactive
• Ability to work independently on several tasks at once
• Fluent in English and French (Good writing, synthesis and analytical skills)
• Team spirit

Additional information

• Full-time position based in Kigali with travel to the provinces, in particular Musanze.
• Type of contract: Rwandan national fixed-term contract
  Starting date : As soon as possible
  Remuneration: according to EF salary scale and profile
• Candidates interested in this opportunity are invited to submit their CV and covering letter mentioning at least 2 references before May 17, 2024. 
• Expertise France reserves the right to pre-select candidates before this date.
• The selection process will take place in three stages:
  First, a shortlist will be drawn up freely by Expertise France.
  Secondly, short-listed candidates may be invited to a take a technical written test. 
  Thirdly, short-listed candidates may be invited to interview

Application link: Click here to apply

Deadline for application: 17/05/2024 23:55