Description
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is the leading global NGO in the field of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). It is currently working in more than 170 countries in the world. The Africa Regional Office (IPPFARO) is one of IPPF's six regional offices.
"Women's Integrated Sexual Health" (WISH) is IPPFs new flagship health programme to transform the lives of millions of women and girls. Funded by DFID, WISH will provide integrated and holistic healthcare to 2.2m additional users of contraception across 16 countries in Africa and South Asia from 2.
Through a consortium of five internationally recognised organisations and 11 IPPF Member Associations led by IPPF, the WISH programme will provide a comprehensive, integrated approach to ensure equitable access to family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). The programme will prioritise the most underserved women and girls, particularly youth under 20, the very poor, and marginalized populations (including people with disability, people displaced or affected by humanitarian crisis, and people living in hard-to-reach areas).
This role is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate your first-rate strategic and analytical skills, building capacity throughout the WISH eco-system to generate evidence and use data for decision-making. In this role, you will be overseeing large-scale data collection initiatives, including annual client exit interviews, periodic implementation of innovative evaluation approaches (such as PEER methodology and Barrier Analysis), and use of routine service data for decision-making.
Utlizing your proven ability to successfully design, implement, and operate project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages; you will be a central part of the WISH2ACTION team.
Working closely with Data Analysts, the Technical Lead for Data Systems, and country-based M&E staff, you will ensure the availability of robust data across the programme, identify and support opportunities for evidence generation and learning, and build the capacity across the programme to use data to strengthen programming.
You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to think conceptually about evaluation questions and to pragmatically apply evaluation theory. You will have outstanding time management skills and ability to meet tight deadlines, and be willing to travel internationally, about 60 days a year. Fluent English (verbal and written) a must and skills in French, Arabic or Portuguese would be a strong advantage.
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Closing date for this role is 9am, Monday the 18th of February 2019.