Monitoring and Evaluation Officer – Community Action for HIV Control / Pаct Inc.

Pact Overview:

At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow.  The promise of a healthy life.  Of a decent livelihood. Of sustainable natural resources that benefit communities.  Now more than ever in its 42 -year history, Pact is helping millions of people who are poor and marginalized discover and build their own solutions and take ownership over their future.

Pact enables systemic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy, and take part in the benefits that nature provides. Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems, and transforming markets into a force for development.

Pact Inc, is implementing a USAID-funded project Community Action for HIV Control. The project goal is to accelerate Ukraine’s efforts to achieve HIV epidemic control by 2030 by improved prevention, testing and linkage to care among key and priority populations.

Position Summary:

Under the M&E and SI Senior Advisor supervision, the M&E officer will provide effective management of program data flow through the maintenance of internal electronic and paper-based recording systems and providing necessary data for program reports and deliverables. The M&E officer is responsible for the entire cycle of program data operations, including development of program data collection tools, providing guidance/trainings to subgrantees on data collections, data collection, data verification and reporting to USAID. The M&E officers is also responsible for data analysis and timely provision of information on underreporting of expected results to program staff. In addition, the M&E officer will also provide the support to program staff in conduction of studies, assessments etc, including input into developing tools of data collection, data analysis and interpretation. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Support project-level monitoring through the maintenance of internal electronic and paper-based recording systems and providing necessary data for program reports and deliverables.
• Review, update and maintain program data collection tools, both electronic and paper-based.
• Facilitate data collection, collation and timely reporting by Project’s partners and staff. 
• Develop and disseminate data collection tools and reporting forms. Provide training to partners and staff on data collection and reporting, as necessary. 
• Aggregate and analyze partner reports. Support partners in developing and maintaining internal data collection tools and procedures.   
• Conduct data analysis for internal and external reporting as per USAID and program requirements.
• Conducts data verification between the Project’s primary (source) documents and tracking tools/on-line electronic database (EDB).
• Conducts data verification of Partner and Project’s generated data.
• Support program staff in study designs developments, data collection and interpretation 
• Perform all work safely and maintain a safe working environment;
• Perform other duties as assigned.  

Basic Requirement:

• Master’s degree in public health, sociology or related discipline.
• At least 2 years of relevant experience in monitoring and evaluation HIV/AIDS programs in Ukraine.
• Experience with evaluation and research design, data collection and analyses, indicator construction, curriculum development
• Experience of analytical notes preparation, reports on the results of data analysis, data visualization
• Skills on workings with Excel and other MS Office software, database programs
• Strong communication, writing and organizational skills for monitoring and effective reporting

• Demonstrated ability to work in complex environments and work with and between different stakeholders.
• Demonstrated skills in problem solving and consensus building.
• The candidate must be demonstrably proficient in (oral, writing and reading) Ukrainian and English.
• Ability to travel within Ukraine and occasionally internationally, when health and safety situation allows.
• Ukrainian nationality

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience of work with Case++, DataCheck, SyrEx and other systems of program monitoring implemented in Ukraine; 
• Knowledge and skills on data processing automatization (dashboards development, automatization of reporting) 
• Experience in the area of HIV/AIDS strategic information 
• Experience with USAID or other donor-funded projects in M&E
• Experience working with community-based organizations and/or key populations in Ukraine

To Apply

Please send your CV and motivation letter to [email protected] with “ComAxn –  ME Officer” in the subject line. Please include at least three contacts of your former supervisors who can provide reference for you. The position is open until filled. Only short-listed candidates will be invited for an interview.