Job offer: Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Advisor

Company Profile

Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with the John Hopkins University.  For 50 years and over and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego works with health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality health care for their people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries care for themselves by training competent health care workers, strengthening health systems and improving delivery of care. Jhpiego designs innovative, effective and low-cost health care solutions to ensure a level of care for women and their families. These practical, evidence-based interventions are breaking down barriers to high-quality health care for the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Project Overview
Breast cancer is the most frequent cause of cancer death in women across Africa. In Ghana, breast cancer has the highest incidence and mortality of all cancers. Jhpiego is partnering with the Pfizer Foundation on Breast cancer End-to-end care from Assessment to Treatment (BEAT) Breast Cancer in Ghana —a transformational initiative aimed at reducing mortality among women with Breast Cancer through stage-shifting, early diagnostics, and timely treatment. This partnership seeks to reduce the symptomatic period of breast cancer in Ghana from the current 12 months to less than three months by rooting the intervention in innovations, women-centered care, and patient navigation pathways to saturate PHC capacity for early detection by clinical breast exam (CBE), institutionalize breast health awareness interventions in social behavior change communications (SBCC) platforms, ensure timely diagnosis by decentralizing diagnoses at the secondary level, and facilitate access to multimodality treatment.  

Jhpiego aims to strive towards creating strong, innovative, and sustainable implementation models integrated into Ghana’s health system and grounded in a woman-centered approach to ensure respectful and responsive services for all women with breast cancer. 

The project will be implemented across selected districts in the Ashanti, Greater Accra, and Northern regions of Ghana over a 3-year period. 

We are currently looking for suitable professional to fill the following position:

Job Location: Accra, Jhpiego Office  

Position Reports to: Project Director 

Supervises: MERL Officer  

Job OverviewWorking with the headquarters-based MERL team and the project’s staff in-country the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Advisor will be responsible for the programmatic and technical aspects related to research, monitoring, and evaluation activities for the Beat Breast Cancer project in Ghana.  Duties and Responsibilities

Manage all MERL components of the project including overseeing the development of the project’s MERL Plan, annual work plans, quarterly reports, semi-annual and annual reports.

Participate in the design and implementation of innovative MERL tools to measure project impact that align with the project’s strategic goals and performance indicators.

Assist in the production of the project’s data quality assessment and reports in compliance with donor and Jhpiego rules and regulations on indicators, results and impact.

Support the in-country project team in a routine manner on data interpretation and promote regular use of data for program improvement and management.

Participate in the design of data quality assurance mechanisms and data validation.

Coordinate data entry and processing and develop a data analysis plan per reporting requirements.

Help build the MERL capacity of both local organizations and the government to design, implement, and monitor MERL activities, develop an MERL plan, and use data effectively across various levels of the health system.

Oversee the design and implementation of operational research needs for the project in-country.

Ensure the application of global best practices in the generation and use of routine data for this project

Education Required: Master’s Degree