Monitoring and evaluation officer, HIV and health, Sierra Leone

With 140 partners working on Health in 40 countries, Christian Aid are brilliantly placed to tackle the broad ranging challenges of Community health, HIV and other diseases impacting vulnerable groups and communities in these countries. We are a vibrant team, carrying out highly innovative work on HIV and Community health. For you that means the chance to build on your existing knowledge of Community health, HIV, malaria and other poverty related health issues, and really get to gips with the issues.

Christian Aid has worked in Sierra Leone for over 25 years and on HIV programmes since 2003. We work through a distinct partnership approach which reflects a firm belief that local organisations and people are best suited to solve their own problems. There are currently five national partners working on HIV prevention, care and support. Two of Christian Aid’s partners, the Methodist Church of Sierra Leone (MCSL) and the Network of People living with HIV (NETHIPS) are implementing programmes promoting rights and providing care and support for people living with HIV in the Western area and all districts in Sierra Leone.

Christian Aid in partnership with four national partners in Sierra Leone and Nigeria has recently won a grant from Comic Relief to implement the ‘People living Positively (PLP) – south-to-south learning to scale up effective HIV care and support interventions in Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

The programme aims to increase access to quality care and support services for PWHIV and their families, in collaboration with other healthcare providers; improve livelihood and economic security of HIV-affected households through mobilisations of savings and loans associations; reduce HIV-related SDD through a rights-based approach; and strengthen organisations led by or representing people living with HIV. Cross-cultural learning between the two countries will be actively supported, to facilitate sharing of good practice and scaling up of proven methodologies.

The result will be improved quality of life of PWHIV and their families in Sierra Leone and Nigeria to live in their communities as People Living Positively. Christian Aid Sierra Leone is recruiting a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer to provide technical advice and support to two partners to effectively monitor the programme.

The role requires a motivated, dynamic and innovative person, able to deliver results from a wide spectrum of projects. Team working and coordination skills will therefore be pertinent to this position The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will work closely with the SPO in the HIV unit to support partners in the programme implementation, to demonstrate high levels of reliability and ability to deliver quality programme reports on time. You will accompany implementing partners in monitoring and evaluation of the PLP Comic Relief project – health intervention and ensure they have relevant capacity using a result-based management approach to develop appropriate M&E framework, log frame and tools for this project. You will support partners to collect baseline data to assess HIV-related knowledge, attitudes and practices, quality life and access to care and support services, develop and use participatory tools including: focus group discussions, semi-structured interviews and PRA mapping techniques.

Experience of working in international development organisations and managing partnerships will be an added advantage.

To be able to execute this role effectively you will have a degree in Social Work, Development Studies, Public Health, Community Health or another relevant field.

Please show your suitability for this post by giving answers to the following questions. Using the guidance notes may help you formulate your answers.

Innovation and creativity

Please describe a situation where you came up with an improved approach to getting work done or addressing an issue.

Describe the situation
What made you consider modifying/implementing a new way of doing things?
Describe the new approach you came up with
How was it an improvement over the existing approach?

Communicating and sharing Ideas/information

It is important to be receptive to others’ ideas and opinions. Tell us about a time when you had to elicit comments or feedback from another team member on an important issue.

How did you let them know that you were interested in what they had to say?
What questions did you ask?
In the end, did you have a good idea of that person’s ideas about the issue?
What was the result?

Delivering goals and objectives

Please describe a project you supervised that required your setting goals, timelines and expected results.

What was the project?
What project goals and deliverables did you recommend?
What steps did you take to ensure your goals, timelines and deliverables were realistic?
How did you ensure that the proper quality of work was maintained?

Team working

Tell us about a time when you realized that you needed to involve other members of your team in order to achieve a shared objective.

What objective was involved?
How did you come to realise that other team members needed to be involved?
How did you go about involving others?
How did the other team members react to getting involved?
What was the outcome?

We value the contribution each person makes to the success of our organization, so you can expect a range of rewards and benefits that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Download the role profile (70 KB pdf)

To apply for this post, please download an application pack and email your completed International application form to sierraleone@christian-aid.org quoting the reference number below.

Please note that CVs will not be accepted and that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Job reference: MEO/SL1011/HK

Closing date: 12 noon, Thursday, 15 December 2011

Interview date: To be confirmed

Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome application from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.