M&E Specialists - Panagora Group

Panagora Group, a woman-owned small business specializing in global health and international development, seeks mid- and senior-level specialists to support an anticipated Evidence for Development (E4D) contract for USAID/West Africa. The specialists will provide a range of research, monitoring, and evaluation methodological support to USAID/West Africa’s health program. Most work will be undertaken within West African countries.

Qualifications. Candidates must possess a post-graduate degree in a relevant field and a minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience. Experience with USAID and/or PEPFAR is strongly preferred. Candidates must have excellent reporting and writing skills. Fluency in written and spoken English is required; advanced French language preferred. Residence in West African countries is preferred but not required.

Requirements

Technical and/or Methodological Fields of Specialty. Candidates must have expertise in one or more of the following fields of specialization:

• HIV prevention, testing, treatment or care
• TB prevention, testing, treatment or care
• Family planning, maternal and child health
• Global health strategic information (SI) and health information systems
• Health program costing
• Key populations (men who have sex with men, transgender women, sex workers, people who inject drugs) and/or priority populations (children, adolescent girls and young women)
• Orphans and vulnerable children
• Site Improvement through Monitoring System (SIMS) assessment and analysis
• Data quality assessment
• US statutory requirements related to family planning and HIV/AIDS compliance
• USAID program cycle, including performance management plan (PMP) and monitoring and evaluation plan (M&E plan) development and implementation
• PEPFAR reporting requirements and systems
• Research methods, including literature reviews, systematic reviews, secondary data analysis, surveys, qualitative research, case studies
• Geographic information systems and geospatial analysis
• Analyses relevant to USAID programming (e.g., gender, environmental, sustainability, political economy, climate change vulnerability, social soundness, youth, institutional)
• USAID and PEPFAR performance monitoring and indicators
• Performance evaluation
• Data visualization
• Organizational capacity building
• USAID collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) methods
• Knowledge management
• Communications