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Opportunity


Abt Associates seeks a qualified Technical Specialist 9 / Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst – Dominican Republic to support the International Health Division in the Dominican Republic.


The USAID-funded President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Africa Indoor Residual Spraying (AIRS) Project supports USAID Missions and Bureaus to plan, implement, and monitor and evaluate vector control activities to prevent mosquito-borne diseases (including malaria and Zika) in African, Latin American, and Caribbean countries where USAID supports vector control efforts. The overall goal of the project is to reduce the burden of vector-borne diseases by enhancing USAID’s ability to implement mosquito control programs on the ground by providing technical expertise, building local governments’ capacity, creating innovative implementation models, conducting cost-effective commodity procurement and logistics systems, and engaging local communities in affected countries.


Under the supervision of the Chief of Party, the Technical Specialist 9 / Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Analyst focuses on surveillance and information management and monitoring programmatic vector control delivery.


Key Roles and Responsibilities

•Lead any M&E-specific needs assessments and baseline surveys/data collection processes prior to IRS campaigns.
•Lead establishment of routine M&E systems to support tracking of Vector Control (VC) program activities, progress, and performance.
•Improve programmatic monitoring efforts through managing the data collection of routine VC activities from county-based VC teams and reporting the data for internal and client use.
•Design, review and test M&E tools for reporting formats and data collection.
•Ensure appropriate skills are maintained with the national and departmental MOH staff through focused trainings for continued maintenance of the established M&E tracking systems.
•Track and report data on all project indicators to the MOH, USAID Country Mission, USAID/Washington, ZAP Dominican Republic Office, and ZAP Home Office. This includes annual updating of the project’s official Monitoring and Evaluation Plan.
•Conduct periodic internal Data Quality Assessments and prepare the project for possible external Data Quality Audits to ensure validity, integrity, precision, reliability and timeliness of all performance data, identifying gaps and suggesting corrective actions on time.
•The position requires frequent travel to ZAP Dominican Republic’s implementing areas for routine monitoring, program supervision, and support.


Preferred Skills / Prerequisites

•Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant social science field, such as Public Health/Environmental health, Community Health, or Statistics.
•At least five (5) years of relevant professional experience in program monitoring and evaluation and in research, capacity building, and personnel management required.
•Previous vector control program experience desirable.
•Experience in MS Excel and mobile-based data collection desirable.
•Experience and familiarity with USAID program monitoring and evaluation, and performance monitoring desirable.
•Strong analytic and quantitative database management skills, budgeting and report writing.
•Strong written and verbal communication skills in English are highly desirable.

Minimum Qualifications

•6+ years of experience and a master degree OR the equivalent combination of education and experience

Experiencia Requerida

Educación Superior

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