Job Description

USAID Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH), is an adolescent co-led initiative to empower girls and boys, 10-19 years and including the most marginalized, to attain their adolescent reproductive health (ARH) rights. The goal of the program is to support adolescents to reach their full potential by; ensuring they receive correct and appropriate reproductive health (RH) information and guidance to decision-making skills, creating an environment conducive to making healthy reproductive health decisions and facilitating the translation of these decisions into healthy behaviors.

The M&E and MIS Specialist is primarily responsible for managing routine data collection work, feeding data into MEL DHIS2 platform, Health Management Information System (HMIS), quality control of the data, and drive utilization of data for ARH projects in the province. S/he will support the consortium team to ensure data quality, validate data, analyze, translate, visualize findings in a timely manner, and produce periodic reports for use by the consortium teams for reporting purposes along with during regular reflection meetings. S/he will closely work with MEL Manager and Research and Knowledge Management Manager ensuring the quality of data, capturing results, building evidence of project success, and encouraging adaptive learning across project consortium partners. S/he will ensure that all data collected, compiled, and analyzed are accurate, appropriate, complete, consistent, and timely. S/he will also feed in ARH project contributions to CARE Nepal and global MEL processes including PIIRS and other MEL/KM initiatives. The employee shall fully comply with CARE policies and procedures and should be accountable for it.

Qualifications:
Master’s Degree in relevant fields such as public health, demography, social science development studies or equivalent with experience in research, MIS, M&E and development; ideally with a strong focus on health research and learning.

Experience:
At least 3 years of relevant experience in MEL database management role in an international development programming context with demonstrated experience in both quantitative and qualitative data.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Strong understanding of USAID-funded projects and programs and experience in the development and implementation of project databases, MIS tools, data collection methods, processes, and ability to organize large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data
• Good training and facilitation skills, and proven experience in capacity building in the development field
• Solid experience in data analysis and preparing periodic progress reports in USAID template
• Knowledge of remote data collection tools and approaches (DHIS2, Kobo Toolbox, ODK, google form, Microsoft form)
• Strong command of MS Excel; Knowledge and experience of using statistical tools/software packages (STATA, SPSS, R, NVivo, etc. an advantage.
• Excellent interpersonal, time management, and organizational skills with a proven ability to deal with multiple tasks; establish priorities and meet deadlines.
• Fluency in Nepali and English language in both written and verbal communication.

Competencies:

• Planning and organizing – Able to define work goals and objectives; develop and execute work plans; and contribute to the achievement of work group objectives
• Teamwork – Able to work effectively with a team
• Developing others – Able to foster the development of others by providing a supportive learning environment
• Communicating and sharing ideas and information - Able to present information and express opinions confidently to internal and external audiences
• Writing – Able to communicate ideas and information in writing to ensure that information and messages are understood and have the desired impact
• Initiative – Deals with situations and issues proactively and persistently
• Embracing and Valuing Diversity – Able to contribute effectively to a culture that positively values the diversity of people, values, and ideas within CARE Nepal.
• Influencing – Able to generate commitment and build consensus among others and gain their support
• Innovation – Demonstrates openness to new ideas, seeks out new opportunities
• Interpersonal sensitivity – Able to communicate with sensitivity and foster communication, actively listening to others