Technical Advisor I - Monitoring & Evaluation at Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Support strategic leadership for M&E systems improvement by collaborating with government ministries, departments, and agencies to strengthen national and sub-national M&E frameworks, guidelines, and SOPs. Ensure these initiatives align with CDC-PEPFAR requirements and national health priorities, while promoting sustainability and integration with existing health systems.
• Facilitate Design and Optimization of M&E Tools and Processes: Work with government teams to improve existing data collection tools, reporting templates, and indicator reference guides. Provide expert advice to streamline workflows for data capture and reporting, reducing duplication and increasing efficiency within established programs.
• Enhance Data Quality Assurance Mechanisms: Offer technical support to reinforce and institutionalize data quality assurance processes within government health structures, including routine DQAs and validation checks. Strengthen the capacity of health workers and partners to uphold high standards of data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Build Capacity for M&E at All Levels: Design and deliver training, mentorship, and supportive supervision for facility, district, and national staff, complementing existing M&E principles, data management, and data use. Empower teams to effectively apply new skills within established frameworks.
• Promote Data Use for Decision-Making: Assist government partners in developing and utilizing dashboards, scorecards, and visualization tools to make existing data more actionable. Facilitate regular data review sessions and coach stakeholders in interpreting trends for program improvement and resource allocation.
• Coordinate Stakeholders and Harmonize Reporting: Support government-led efforts to engage donors and implementing partners, ensuring alignment of indicators, reporting timelines, and data systems. Represent M&E priorities in technical working groups and advocate for harmonized reporting that supports current systems.
• Monitor and Evaluate M&E System Performance: Aid government teams in tracking M&E system strengthening activities against work plans and existing indicators. Facilitate documentation of lessons learned, best practices, and innovations to encourage broader scale-up and ongoing improvement.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles.
• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks.
• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation and analysis.
• Knowledge of capacity-strengthening best practices.
• Experience in project design and proposal development. Experience in writing content for proposals.
• Strong relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings
• Good strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment
• Good technical writing skills
• Presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills
• Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in public health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Informatic or related health data sciences is an advantage.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Informatic or related health data sciences is required.
• Minimum of eight years’ relevant work experience with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with a minimum of three years’ experience managing field-based Monitoring and Evaluation processes.