Job Description

Position: MEAL/HMIS Manager

Location: Jowhar, with travel to  Mogadishu and other locations in Middle Shabeele

Duration: 10 months, renewable based on performance, funds, and need for the position

Posted:

Closing date: 7th July 2024

Organization: Alight

About Alight:

Alight is an international humanitarian organization dedicated to guiding displaced individuals through the journey from vulnerability to resilience, impoverishment to well-being, and exclusion to inclusion. Committed to co-designing solutions with a focus on radical accountability, Alight is a global force in building meaningful lives for and with displaced communities, implementing high-quality programs and services – all while developing trusting local partnerships that build resilience and shifts power back into the hands of local communities, where it belongs.

Role Overview: 

This position of Monitoring and Evaluation/HMIS Manager is to improve and boost ALIGHT ’s quality monitoring and implementation intensity, through regular monitoring, coordination, and continuous support the project team. The MEAL/HMIS Manager will ensure that the program or project adheres to relevant legal regulations, consortium standards and organizational policies. She often conducts regular inspections to detect areas that violate the guidelines and initiates corrective measures.  The MEAL/HMIS Manager will report to the Protect Manager (Team Leader) and Director, Somali Program.

Primary Responsibilities: 

1. Field Monitoring and Quality Assurance

• Working with the RHO, oversee HMIS system use within the region.
• Develop RHO HMIS capacity.
• Oversee facility-level use of HMIS tools.
• Analyze regional-level health data for decision making.
• Develop RHO capacity for data analysis and data use for decision making.
• Support implementation of HMIS data quality improvement procedures (quality checks, facility visits, etc.)
• Improve facility-level capacity to develop simple, hand-drawn data analytics (ex: charts placed on the wall) and to use data.
• Contribute to NGO reports.
• Based within the coverage region.

2. Supporting grants and program development

• Support project/program staff on ways to properly document, organize and capture all project related documents.
• Draft tools and their revisions as well as data collection procedures (e.g. logical framework, project performance tracking, indicators, data flow chart, and M&E manuals).
• Review the performance of existing management information systems to help identify potential modifications or resources.
• Closely track and follow up humanitarian situation reports and support with the senior management and program development team.
• Assist Program Development in establishing log frames, M&E work plans, and targets during the drafting donor project proposals as well as throughout project implementation.

3. Internal Reporting

• Feed monthly (weekly if necessary) reports to the area managers and program development coordinator, addressing current and quick updates regarding M&E highlights in the programming.
• Handle the monthly/quarterly reports of corporate M&E requirements including OTS and Global Health Indicators. 
• Support area managers in producing timely and fashionable reports to ensure high quality reports are submitted on time for the grant/program.
• Contribute in the production of promotional and visibility materials with the communications team.
• Establish and improve community feedback mechanisms.
• Support the communication and Reporting of other ALIGHT respective offices.

4. Staff Capacity Building

• Build the capacity of the relevant program staff in M&E guidelines/requirements, prober documentation, data collection and report writing.
• Trains program employees, maintain contact with program partners and ensures all program aspects comply with institutional requirements and contributing to staff capacity building initiatives as necessary.
• Propose strategies to increase data use and demand amongst Program staff.
• Share with the program teams lessons from the previous implemented projects so to improve the current and upcoming.
• Highlight training gaps and provide training for improving efficiency of groups and improved documentation.

Experiences and Qualifications

Qualifications: 

• A master’s degree in public health, statistics, or related field is required.
• A minimum of seven years in HMIS management, health data analysis and development of HMIS quality assurance systems.

• At least three years’ experience in HMIS capacity development, with a focus on coaching and mentorship, is required At least 3-5 years of managerial experience with an NGO (experience with INGO preferred); in addition to significant MEAL experience.
• Proficiency in database development/management, SPSS, EPI-Info, Access, Excel and skills in analyzing, interpreting and communicating information to various stakeholders.
•  Experience using ICT for data collection and information visioning and mapping using GIS
• Significant experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative assessments and surveys (including sound understanding of sampling issues)
• Experience using appreciative inquiry and conflict sensitivity techniques.
• Experience with facilitation, capacity strengthening and partnership building, with the capacity to empower staff through opportunities for growth & development.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to work well with people, good judgment, and commitment to Alight’s mission.
• Willingness to travel to different locations Somalia.

Key Behaviors & Abilities: 

• Self-motivated and independent worker. 
• Comfortable in unstable environments and under programmatic pressures. 
• Availability for occasional evening and weekend hours. 
• Cultural sensitivity. 

Skills Required

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