Strategic Information and Evaluation Officer Washington, DC

The Strategic Information and Evaluation (SI&E) Officer will work as a key member of the Program Implementation and Country Management Department’s SI&E unit, under the leadership of the Senior Director, SI&E. He/She will provide technical support to field staffs in program monitoring, including tools development, data collection, management, analysis, and use for program improvement In addition, he/she will support the development of proposals for and implementation of various operations research and program evaluation activities. He/she will be actively involved in the enhancements and utilization of various international databases at the Foundation. The incumbent will work in close collaboration with the respective Directors, program and IT staff to ensure that the Foundation's data management and evaluation plans capture all data relevant for monitoring and reporting on the Foundation’s international programs.

Roles and Responsibilities:
· Provides technical backstopping support to country staffs and partners in the collection, analysis, and use of program data for report generation and program improvement;
· Provides support in the design and implementation of program evaluation and operations research studies, as appropriate;
· Plans for, designs, and participates in the implementation of M&E capacity-building initiatives for country staff and partners;
· Supports US-based program staff in the design of country-level program queries and reports using the Foundation’s international programs data warehouse;
· Supports development of M&E plans for country programs;
· Supports in the development and implementation of data quality assurance strategies in the respective country programs
· Supports development and implementation of data use plans in the country programs and projects
· Contributes summary data and program content to Foundation reports, briefings, policy statements, media releases, on subject matter in target countries;
· Supports as well as analyzes program data to support the documentation and dissemination of promising practices and lessons learned globally;
· Actively participates in new business development efforts; and
· Provides other program monitoring and evaluation technical support, upon request of the Senior Director, SI&E as well the respective country program leads.

Required Qualifications:
· Masters degree in epidemiology, demography, public health, preferably with a focus in the area of maternal and child health and/or HIV/AIDS;
· Minimum 5 years of international experience in the area of monitoring and evaluation, and/or health research
· Ability to travel internationally approximately 25% of the time.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
· Demonstrated expertise working within multi-cultural and multi-national teams in developing countries, including with Ministries of Health and/or National Planning and Statistics Bureaus;
· Experience in working in headquarter set up for M&E backstopping
· Demonstrated expertise in using data, publishing in peer reviewed journals, documentation of promising practices, policy briefings, advocacy materials, etc. in the context of international health programming;
· Strong and demonstrable proficiency in use of computers, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, databases and statistical packages for basic analyses of large data sets;
· Experience managing and/or using quantitative methods;
· Experience in managing M&E of community based interventions is a plus
· Strong communication skills, both oral and written, required;
· French language skills is a plus;
· Proven ability to work effectively as member of dynamic team in fast-paced environment.

Strategic Information and Evaluation Officer

Washington, DC