Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, May 09 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Mott MacDonald is currently the Management Agent for the Fleming Fund, which is funded by the UK government via the Department of Health and Social Care. The Fleming Fund is supporting up to 25 countries across Africa and Asia to tackle antimicrobial resistance by strengthening surveillance systems. using a portfolio of country, regional and global grants, including a fellowship scheme for building professional capacity at the country level. Phase 1 of the Fleming Fund spanned 2018 to 2022, with Phase II running until March 2026.

This position is responsible for leading on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) matters in relation to Fleming Fund country, regional and fellowship grants awarded within the East and Southern Africa region. The post holder will be an M&E expert based within the Regional Team in Kampala and will be predominantly responsible for monitoring grant achievements and results. The entire Fleming Fund Grants Programme is evaluated by an independent evaluation team, who have been appointed by the UK Department of Health and Social Care. The successful candidate will have grant /programme evaluation experience to inform monitoring practice that feeds into the ongoing development of a strong monitoring system, relevant to informing timely grant and programme implementation and adaptation, as well as evaluation needs.

Primarily, this position will be responsible for ensuring grantees are supported adequately to be compliant with programme M&E requirements. This will involve working closely with grantees, ensuring they understand requirements and have the capacity to fulfil them. The position is also to support the regional and core headquarter (HQ) management teams in the end-to-end process of grant management. The role will help to ensure the highest quality professional standards in the conduct and implementation of the Fleming Fund Grants Programme. This will entail working as part of a team, with support from experts in the regional office and HQ level. There will likely be high-level liaison with partners in the region, from grantees to national governments, and agencies such as: WHO, FAO and World Organisation for Animal Health (formerly OIE).

The role will include regular travel to multiple countries within the region for on-site verification and grantee liaison.

Key Responsibilities:
• To review grantee quarterly reporting submissions, and support grantees to have a robust and ‘trackable’ grant implementation work .
• Participate in ongoing support to grantees for routine reporting, including data collection for indicator calculation.
• To monitor routine grant reporting for all approved grants within the region (country grants, regional grants + fellowships). This includes leading the writing of quarterly country reports within the regional portfolio of grants, along with having oversight of reporting completeness, timeliness, internal consistency/ accuracy, and trends over time.
• To ensure regular data verification + quality assurance checks are conducted at the country level. This will include on-site visits with other regional team technical staff, as relevant.
• In conjunction with the wider regional team, ensure timely identification of grantee TA needs. Where appropriate, be responsible for the sourcing and oversight of TA support.
• To ensure quarterly grantee reports are centrally logged in a timely manner on programme software (i.e. a customised DHIS2 platform).
• To be the M&E focal point for regional grantees.
• To provide backstopping technical support to regional Fellowship Officers on all M&E related matters.
• To provide support and engage with the programme’s M&E Lead, plus the programme’s Results Analyst, as required.
• To provide support to the programme wide learning agenda, and engage with the programme’s Learning and Results specialist, as relevant.
• To engage with the independent evaluation team, as required.
• To engage in routine grant review meetings /communication with the HQ team.
• To support the requirements from the independent evaluators, as advised by the Regional Coordinator and /or HQ.
• Participate in regional grantee meetings, and routine M&E related meetings (regionally plus programme wide), as appropriate.

Person Specification
Education:
Essential: Higher Education (post-graduate) degree in a related discipline: e.g. public health; veterinary, laboratory science; development studies.
Desirable: M&E post graduate qualification

Training:
Essential: Relevant courses in M&E technical areas
Desirable: Relevant topic areas such as: surveillance systems; One Health, laboratory systems strengthening

Experience:
Essential:
• 5-10 years’ experience working in grant /programme implementation in low- and middle-income settings.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating programmes, particularly multi-site in nature but preferably multi-country programmes too.
• Experience using results frameworks (e.g. log frames or similar results tracking tools).
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders at a senior level.
• Demonstrated ability to work within teams in a multi-disciplinary, multi-country environment, including ease working in multi-cultural, multi-lingual working environments.
• Country based experience relevant to the regional location of this position.

Desirable:
• History and track-record of providing technical advice to programmes, organisations or other institutions.
• Experience co-ordinating or working with operational research studies.
• Working with a funding agency or similar organisations
• Knowledge and networks (partnerships and associates) in LMICs
• Experience of working with major development partners such as DFID, USAID, EU, World Bank, UN health agencies & global bodies

Key Skills:
Essential:
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyse problems and identify solutions.
• Ability to review and analyse data findings and results.
• Excellent written communication and report writing skills, including providing data summary syntheses and recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively: communicating, building relationships, and influencing effectively with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Able to multi-task, work to deadlines, and maintain a critical overview of interrelated tasks, projects, and issues, ensuring delivery according to targets and timelines.
• Demonstrated experience of situating programme results within a broader implementation context (e.g. against expenditure and budget frameworks).
• Excellent written and oral English language skills.

Desirable:
• Ability to work in other language(s) of the region would be considered an asset.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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