Job Description

Locations: Mount Darwin
About
Zvandiri is a community organisation which through its Zvandiri programme, integrates community prevention, treatment, care and support for children, adolescents and young people living with HIV. Works with the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) and National AIDS Council in implementing these interventions with funding from various funders.

Summary
The Strategic Information and Evaluation Assistant (SIEA) will work with the Zvandiri district team in the implementation of Strategic Information and Evaluation activities at the district level. As a member of the ZDT, they are responsible for coordinating data collection, aggregation, cleaning, and reporting. They will lead in satisfying internal and external stakeholder reporting requirements. The SIEA reports to the DSIEO/SIEO.

Duties and Responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities

• Reporting: Facilitate reporting by performing data analysis to meet reporting requirements. Lead in the compilations of monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad-hoc district statistical reports.
• Planning and Coordination: In collaboration with the ZDTs team, plan for Site support visits, and data quality assessments, mentorship of CATS.
• Documentation, and learning: Promote a culture of learning in program implementation. Play a key role in program data reviews through the provision of district and site-level insights.
• Data Collection and Management: Lead in data collection, capturing, and reporting working with CATS and the ZDT. Pretesting data collection tools and gathering feedback from CATS on data collection practices.
• Management Information Systems: Lead in the capacity building of CATS on the usage of the Zvandiri MIS. Coordinate the development of site-level data dashboards and ensure that reporting comes through the MIS. Ensuring data confidentiality, accessibility, and safety during data collection.
• Evaluation: In collaboration with the programs team conduct quality improvement plans and targeted assessments.
• Quality Assurance: Coordinate data quality assurance broadly through planning and implementing of the DQAs plans. Working with ZDTs in Data verifications, and assessments.
• Data Utilization: Championing data usage and ensuring that programs are data-driven through contributing to internal data review meetings, reporting and always looking at better ways to share the Zvandiri story with stakeholders.

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications and requirements

• An honours degree in Public Health, Monitoring and Evaluation, Biostatics, Demography, Statistics, Social Science, or a related field
• Minimum 2 years' experience in monitoring and evaluation of a community-based program focused on children, adolescents, and young people,
• Experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
• Experience in data management software's that includes DHIS-2, Excel, Kobo Collect
• Experience in the use of statistical analysis packages (e.g., SPSS, STATA, CSPro)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 applications (e.g., Word, Excel, Teams, Power BI PowerPoint)

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Deadline: Mid-day 8th of December 2023.

Zvandiri is an equal opportunity employer promoting gender, equity and diversity. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. ZVANDIRI has zero tolerance for any form of harassment and staff are expected to uphold the organizational values and core competencies especially diversity and inclusion, integrity, commitment, and respect for others as our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children and safeguarding employees and communities from Sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse.

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