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ER-020: Emergency Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
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Department:Emergency Response Team
  
Essential Job Duties/Scope of Work:
***NOTE*** - THIS POSITION IS TO APPLY TO A STAND BY ROSTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (ERT).

Candidates selected for this position will be placed on the ERT standby roster and may be called when the International Medical Corps ERT responds to an emergency. This position is not compensated unless candidates are responding to an emergency response.

When catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene—providing rapid and effective aid that saves lives, reduces suffering, and promotes self reliance.

International Medical Corps has established an International Emergency Roster to ensure that emergency positions are filled in a timely manner with professionally qualified, gender balanced, geographically diverse, linguistically able and a highly motivated corps of professionals. The team includes coordinators, logisticians, doctors and water and sanitation experts. It also includes specialists who focus on protection, prevention of sexual violence and aid for rape survivors and mental health.

Emergency Response Team (ERT) members are always on standby to deploy to a crisis within 72 hours, whether they are launching into new areas or lending support to International Medical Corps teams already on the ground.

International Medical Corps maintains a roster of staff which is updated on regular basis in order to include new staff into the system. This also provides an opportunity for the existing staff to update their areas of expertise and other relevant information.

Through this expression of Interest, applicants are encouraged to submit their profiles so that their information is readily available in the International Medical Corps applicant tracking system.



JOB SUMMARY
The Emergency Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will be responsible for efficiently setting up effective monitoring systems to collect basic information about activities in the initial phase of emergency response. As the response continues, the M&E Officer will be responsible for designing and implementing sustainable monitoring and evaluation systems in coordination with relevant government UN agencies and headquarter-based M&E staff as well as analyzing, interpreting and communicating information in a way that promotes informed decision-making for on-going and future programmatic activity.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Identify priority data needed for immediate operational and planning means and rapidly develop methods of collecting this data
• Coordinate and lead rapid needs assessments as necessary, including coordination with other agencies and prompt analysis and dispersal of findings
• Develop M&E processes and related tools that support quality assurance for key program areas (women and child health, water and sanitation, mental health, emergency response, health capacity building);
• Design, test, implement and review routine project monitoring and report forms, databases and data flow mechanisms and oversee the management of data for regular reporting on program progress;
• Establish and maintain feedback mechanisms for M&E results with all stakeholders to identify and share lessons learned and to encourage use of data for decision-making at all levels and effectively communicate this information;
• Conduct operational research activities as appropriate to support effective and efficient program implementation;
• Advise in the planning and monitoring of M&E related expenditures and make recommendations for required human and financial resources;
• Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed above are representative of the nature and levels of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Qualifications:
SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS:
• Masters level or higher degree in epidemiology, public health, social sciences, health information management, biostatistics or a related discipline;
• At least five years of applied experience with a humanitarian organization designing, implementing and overseeing monitoring and evaluation tasks, preferably in health and nutrition sectors;
• Demonstrated experience designing logical frameworks and results based frameworks and associated performance monitoring and evaluation plans;
• Experience with M&E approaches for key donors such as USAID, OFDA and PRM
• Extensive experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection including survey design, implementation and analysis;
• Experience developing and implementing project management plans (PMPs) or monitoring and monitoring and evaluation plans
• Competent in qualitative approaches and participatory assessment;
• Experience with common survey approaches in the health and nutrition sectors (KPC surveys, LQAS, and SMART);
• Experience designing and implementing health management information systems at the facility and community levels;
• Familiarity with database design and other tools for information management;
• Competent in MS Excel, word processing, Power Point and experience using statistical packages such as SPSS, EPI-Info, STATA, etc;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate technical material to both expert and lay audiences;
• Strong organizational and time management skills and capacity to coordinate work across multiple departments;
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and analytical skills;
• Willingness and ability to live in a challenging environment
• Fluency in written and spoken English is essential.
  
    
 

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