Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning; MEL) Lead

Full-time

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) is on a mission to create a world where no mother, child or family is devastated by HIV and AIDS. Join us on our fight for an AIDS-free generation.

Reports To: Director Health Systems Strengthening.

Department: Technical Excellence;
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.

Location: Remote, Preferably Africa Based.

Classification: Full-time, Regular

Travel: Up to 30% International travel to EGPAF supported Countries

Position Overview

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Lead provides MEL and strategic information management technical leadership, capacity, and support for EGPAF country teams. The MEL Lead works within the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team and in collaboration with the Digital Health and Data Analytics (DHDA) team to develop, strengthen, standardize M&E systems and data governance, ensure data quality, data use for program improvement and decision-making, and integration of Foundation data systems with national health management information systems (HMIS) in EGPAF-supported countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

The MEL Leads role will be executed in alignment with EGPAF's  Strategic Direction advancing triple elimination, ending pediatric AIDS, preventing maternal morbidity and mortality, child survival, and health system sustainability. Within this broad scope, the MEL Lead will primarily support M&E activities in countries funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in addition to other responsibilities within the global MEL unit of the Technical Excellence department.

This position also supports EGPAF's adaptation to the evolving global health financing landscape, including the U.S. Department of State's America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS) and its emphasis on bilateral, co-financed country partnerships, milestone-based or performance-based funding, and transition planning to country ownership of health programs. The MEL Lead will work closely with other global SI&E/DHDA and Technical Excellence team members, country program teams, donors and national Ministries of Health and other external partners in activities aimed at sustaining progress toward 95-95-95 outcomes for pregnant women, children, and adolescents and reaching the WHO elimination milestones (mother-to-child transmission rates under 5%, fewer than 50 infections per 100,000 live births, and HBV prevalence under 0.1% in children under five), while ensuring standards and strengthening organizational and country program M&E capacity.

• Lead the adaptation of MEL guidance from the America First Global Health Strategy, GHSD and CDC into the Department of State (DoS) and CDC funded projects.
• Lead the design and implementation of project monitoring and evaluation plans (PMEPs).
• Lead the refinement of project monitoring indicators, milestones and targets in collaboration with global technical leads and country technical and M&E leads.
• Contribute to building digital systems for milestone tracking and performance monitoring for the performance-based financing mechanism.
• Contribute to designing M&E frameworks for Foundation program priorities and integrate these into DoS and CDC-funded projects.

• Provide technical leadership in designing and establishing data systems for milestone-based MEL for the DoS and CDC-funded projects.
• Define and establish Foundation systems for milestone data collection, verification and use at country and global level for performance monitoring and improvement.
• Spearhead data collection in supported countries, including data verification, cleaning and reporting in fulfilment of donor requirements and reporting milestones.

• Develop guidance documents and tools for routine data quality assessments and supportive supervision for implementation across countries to ensure high-quality data is collected and used.
• Support country teams to conduct routine data quality assessments and supportive supervision activities across supported countries to ensure high-quality data is collected, used and reported.
• Review data quality on program dashboards and ensure that country teams address identified data quality issues.
• Promote a culture of data quality assurance through…