M&E Officer INTERSOS Mission in Somalia

 INTERSOS Mission in Somalia National Staff __________________________________________________________________________________ 

Position: M&E Officer Job site: Somalia, Middle Shabelle (50-75% of time) and Nairobi (25%-50% of time). Duration: 6 months - 6 days per week while in Somalia, 5 days per week while in Nairobi. Probation period: 3 months Reports to: Health & Nutrition Coordinator – Nairobi. Status: Collaborator/ Full-time ___________________________________________________________________________ Purpose/objectives: The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Assistant to the Health and Nutrition Coordinator, engaged for the 50/75% of his/her activities in Somalia and for the 25/50% in Nairobi, is responsible to support the coordination of all the health and nutrition activities of INTERSOS by, under the guidance of the Health and Nutrition Coordinator, supervising and monitoring and locally evaluating the data collection mechanisms and the implementation strategies. Core responsibilities:

 He/she liaises with the managerial staff at field level, ensuring that the activities they supervise meet high quality standards in terms or monitoring and reporting mechanisms.

 He/she is in charge of preparing ad hoc training courses in Nairobi and delivery them to the Somalia’s staff. He/she is responsible for the correct collection of data by the field staff and ensures that these data are correctly and timely transferred to the Database Manager.

 He/she is also responsible for the empowerment and development of the tools regarding the collection of data in the field and at hospital level.

Main M&E responsibilities:

 He/ she supports, supervises and coordinates the Field Supervisor – Food and NFIs Distribution and Field Supervisor – Nutrition and Health in monitoring the work of Health and Nutrition mobile teams, the MHC Centers and the health posts in the Middle Shabelle Region (including those that may open in the future in nearby areas) and one Stabilization Center in Jowhar; particularly with regard of the data collection mechanism and procedures of intervention.

 He/ she supports, supervises and coordinates the Jowhar Regional Hospital and Jowhar TB Centre senior staff in monitoring the activities of the Jowhar Regional Hospital (both inpatients wards and OPD) and of Jowhar TB Centre in terms of data collection, drugs stock management and other logistic procedures.

 He/ she is primarily responsible for:

 Gathering regularly (minimum: a weekly basis for outreach activities and twice a week for Hospital/ TB Centre activities) the data collected by the field staff/ hospital staff, making sure that this data collection activity is done in a professional way;

 Checking for consistency (i.e. that all the required information has been correctly reported) all the data collected by the field staff and by the hospital staff;

 Supervising the Database Manager / Database managers assistants in his/her role of including the information in the database and transmitting to Nairobi Office the updated version within two days from the time new information has been made available.

 Supervising logistic M&E activities performed by dedicated hospital staff and transmitting weekly to Nairobi office an update summarizing the findings of the M&E conducted during the week.

 Supervising the Hospital Pharmacy staff the in the drugs/ medical material stock reporting, making sure that an update on the current stock/ stock used is transmitted weekly to Nairobi Office. For the MCHs, reporting on available stock shall be transmitted to Nairobi Office bimonthly.

 He/ she strengthen the currently used information/data registration system in the field through the implementation of new tools and instruments, under the supervision of the Area Coordinator. This duty, finalized to empower the data collection system, will be done jointly with the staff in Nairobi as well as the staff in the field.

 He/ she develops ad hoc health/nutrition M&E training courses with the staff in Nairobi and trains on M&E issues the Somalia’s staff.

 He/ she collaborates with the field team staff in performing community awareness sessions / health-nutrition promotion activities, making sure that the identification of the beneficiaries targeted is done correctly.

 Refers and interfaces with the Nairobi’s staff with regard to the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation status of all the INTERSOS’ Health and Nutrition activities and contributes to the effective measurement of the impact of these activities on the beneficiaries.

Skills and competences: - Somali national (or Kenyan/ Somali), able to work in the Middle Shabelle Region - Nurse or Nutritionist with proven capabilities with experience in M&E - Experienced in training staff in M&E in the context of nutrition and health activities in the field. - Experience in staging community awareness/ health promotion activities. - Good level of spoken and written English, Italian a plus. - Attention to details. - Computer literate (skills: writing and responding to emails and of filling electronic Excel spreadsheets), with very good skills in database management. TO APPLY: Please send CV (with at least three references) and motivation letter to: Dr. Luca Saraceno, INTERSOS Health & Nutrition Coordinator email address: recruitment.somalia@yahoo.org Deadline for applications: Friday 23 November 2012 at 5 PM (Nairobi time zone)

Cedar Road, Divyam Apartments, Westlands - P.O. Box 57801-00200, Nairobi KenyaT Tel +254 0204448185 Fax +254 020 4448812 somalia@intersos.org www.intersos.org C.F. 97091470589 Socia di Link 2007 e di Agire – Verificata dall’IID, Istituto Italiano della Donazione