M&E Officer Vacancy at COCODA Tanzania

M&E Officer Vacancy at COCODA Tanzania

Position: M&E Officer

COCODA Tanzania is a non-governmental organisation established in 2000. COCODA’s  establishment resulted from intensifying concern among community members in  Tanzania over the surging number of orphans, mainly as a consequence of the swelling  amount of people infected by HIV and dying from AIDS, the majority being adults  leaving behind young children without parents. This trend had a negative impact on  social and economic development. Hence COCODA Tanzania envisioned offering an  effective response to the situation by providing social health education to the local  community on HIV/ AIDS, supporting orphans and most vulnerable children, providing  vocational skills to youth and establishing small-scale income-generating groups for the  community’s sustainable economy. 

Kizazi Hodari Project is a five-year global effort to reach and sustain HIV epidemic  control among pregnant and breastfeeding women, adolescents, infants, and children.  The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded the project and  implemented by Deloitte Tanzania. A resource partner’s global and local strategic  resource partner network supports these core partners. Kizazi Hodari focuses on priority  PEPFAR countries across Africa and the Caribbean. The consortium works with USAID  Missions, national governments, and existing response partners to identify gaps in HIV  prevention and treatment programming among target populations. Using best practices  and expertise along with innovations, the project is addressing critical gaps to meet  country-specific epidemic control goals. Kizazi Hodari is USAID’s flagship initiative to  address the needs of children, young people, and breastfeeding women affected by HIV.  This includes supporting local organizations and organisations that serve these  populations and ultimately build their capability to receive direct U.S. government  funding for programs at scale. The project leverages the full strength of its consortia and 

related private and public sector stakeholders to support countries in attaining and  sustaining HIV epidemic control. In Tanzania, starting in November 2022, Kizazi Hodari  is receiving funds from USAID to support the Government of Tanzania (Got) to achieve  its aim of controlling the HIV epidemic, with a particular focus on programs targeting  orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and adolescent girls and young women, through  the DREAMS (Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe)  program, in 54 councils across 15 regions in Tanzania. Additionally, Kizazi Hodari aims  to strengthen local organizations and the national- and community-level social welfare  systems, structures, and workforce to support and sustain OVC to access HIV-inclusive  services that support their health and well-being. The Kizazi Hodari program has three  Strategic Objectives: 

1. Increase the use of OVC platforms for pediatric HIV case finding, linkage to  treatment and viral suppression 
2. Increase access to HIV prevention, violence prevention and response services for  OVC and Youth 
3. Improve the socio-economic capacity of at-risk adolescent girls and young women  (AGYW) and OVC caregivers 

COCODA Tanzania invites competent and motivated applicants to apply for the  following position; 

M&E Officer – 1 Position  

 Location: Njombe Region  

Reports to: Project Manager  

Position Description:  

Serve as an active member of the COCODA Tanzania management team for the  implementation of the USAID Kizazi Hodari project with the primary responsibility of  strategic leadership and management of Monitoring and Evaluation functions under the  leadership and direction of the Project Manager.

Responsibilities:  

The Assistant Monitoring and Evaluation officer must develop a close working  relationship with the technical team (ESO, CMOs and HTOs etc.) to ensure quality data  is collected and entered in the database. The assistant M&E Officer will be responsible  for: 

• Support in implementing and overseeing monitoring and evaluation activities at  the council level, including development of COCODA M&E plans and data  collection frameworks to support data management, and reporting.
• Support data analysis for their respective councils, visualization and use of data  to assess daily and monthly COCODA performance trends and help COCODA  management to interpret program performance and implications of data for  programming.
• Participate actively in generating data for COCODA management monthly and  quarterly narrative reports or other reports, as needed.
• Organize and supervise routine internal data quality assessments (DQAs) for each  council under the management of the COCODA.
• Play a coordinating function for producing data and feeding to COCODA  management for program decision making at the council and organizational  levels.
• Provided technical assistance to COCODA technical team members (CMOs, HTOs  and ESOs on developing and monitoring targets in compliance with the developed  and approved M&E plan.
• Conduct and coordinate the provision of regular data collection and entry visits to  Community Case Workers (CCWs); identify data entry challenges and provide  technical assistance on data entry to CCWs.
• Serve as a mentor to COCODA technical team members (CMOs, HTOs and ESOs,)  and provide technical assistance in various areas relating to M&E function. ∙ Organize and coordinate quarterly data review meetings at councils’ level by  supporting program performance presentation preparations, and data  interpretation.
• Organize and manage all Quality Improvement (QI) activities of the COCODA  and other tasks as assigned

Qualifications and experience  

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, public health, Information technology, Computer  science, demography, or other social science areas.
• Academic qualification in monitoring and evaluation will be an added advantage.
• The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of professional experience working  in Monitoring, Evaluation, and reporting, preferably working with donor funded  programs.
• 2 – 3 years’ work experience supporting technical or programmatic activities in  orphans and vulnerable children (experience with health facility setting a plus) ∙ Experience with DHIS2 preferred other software.
• Experience implementing qualitative and quantitative research
• Report writing and publication skills
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills in English and Kiswahili ∙ Excellent people and partnership skills.
• Collaborative team player with leadership skills
• The candidate should have experience in training / workshop facilitation,  mentoring and a proven ability to develop and maintain effective work  relationships with government and other NGO counterparts.

Candidates are required to mention the ‘Position Title’ in the subject line of the e-mail.  All applicants MUST attach a cover letter and their updated Curriculum Vitae with  certified copies of academic certificates as supporting documents to their applications.

All applications should be submitted no later than 16:00 Pm on 22nd September 2024 by  email, to:

Human Resource Manager, 

 COCODA Tanzania, 

 P.O.Box 712,  

 Njombe. 

 [email protected]

Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

Warning: Please avoid deception agents, COCODA charges no cost for any job position  advertised. COCODA enhances equal opportunity to all qualified candidates.