POSITION DESCRIPTION
Position Title: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
Duty Station: MONROVIA (with field travels)
Period: February 2020 – February 2021 (with possibility of extension)
Expected Start time: February 3, 2020
Program: Mental Health Program – Liberia (Tubman Boulevard, Congo Town)
Reporting to: Program Lead
I. General Summary of the Position
Under the supervision of the Program Lead, the M&E Officer will work closely with project managers to
coordinate and supervise the planning, collection, compilation, analysis, and reporting of project data to meet
the monitoring and evaluation needs of the MHP-L. He/she will oversee data collection, cleaning, processing,
analysis and presentation needs of the program. This includes but is not limited to on-going evaluation needs of all
projects, data analyses, reporting to support grant applications, and responses to donors and the government of
Liberia, as well as to, specific requests for data as needed.
II. Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
• Review all MHP-L available data and advise the Program Lead regarding 1) gaps and plans for filling; 2)
potential research and/or areas for publications, reports, policy briefs and brochures; 3) research ethics
requirements; 4) training and associated needs.
• Semi-annually review and update the M&E framework and Logic Model of the Mental Health Program –
Liberia with specific attention to the New Initiative Routing Form (NIRF), Sustainability Checklist, and
individual projects while ensuring consistency with the proposed objectives, timeline, and outcomes.
• Develop a Theory of Change model to supplement the M&E Framework and Logic Model, and review and
update semi-annually
• Advise the Program Lead, project managers, and HQ-based global behavioral health Senior Program
Associate of any delays or difficulties in implementing or completing data-related activities (form
production, collection, cleaning, analysis and presentation of reports, power-points etc.), and troubleshoot,
resolve, and fine-tune issues as appropriate
• Update dashboards periodically for all key projects with regularly submitted data.
• Lead research design components of all projects and contribute to design and presentation of research
proposals to the research ethics/institutional review board
• Liaise closely with HQ-based global behavioral health SPA and team on projects and data collection/analysis
progress and attend weekly team meetings.
• Document consistently challenges and successes of M&E approach at both project and program level to
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ensure that Carter Center M&E approach continues to evolve and improve.
Capacity Building:
• Design and conduct knowledge and competency-based evaluations of project trainings
• Support the recruitment process of individuals to support M&E activities of the Program
• Train data collectors, data cleaning, and data entry staff on project, methods of collection, cleaning and input,
data preservation and data privacy
• Provide and document quality checks for data collection, data cleaning and data entry personnel
• Provide guidance on program evaluation and analysis to The Carter Center Mental Health Program local
partners including but not limited to Cultivation for Users Hope and the Liberia Center for Outcomes
Research in Mental Health
• Support Mental Health Unit and other units at the Ministry of Health to respond to surveys, queries,
reports and other data request
Monitoring and Evaluation:
• Track the performance of the project activities and outputs against expected results and adjust
implementation processes to ensure the project is progressing towards the intended outcomes
• Analyze the impact of projects and promote learning by documentation of best practices. Use this
information to support decision-making processes.
• Track program progress, projects’ expenditure against approved budgets, anticipate any deviations and
recommend action on relevant and required adjustments.
• Work closely with the Ministry of Health’s Health Management Information System Mental Health Data
Manager and Montserrado County Health Team’s M&E Officer to make sure mental health service data and
indicators are integrated and up to date
Data Collection, Compilation and Analysis:
• Develop data analytic plan, seek input from program implementors and refine analytic plan consistent
with program and projects’ goals
• Lead the development/refinement/adaptation of instrumentsfor data collection, cleaning, dictionaries, code
books and relevant methods of documentation of the layout and definition of datafiles, synthesis, reporting,
and presentation consistent with Theory of Change, prevailing literature and empirical evidence
• Lead qualitative and quantitative data collection, analyses and reporting
• Conduct results-based monitoring and evaluation
• Identify and support user-friendly ways to understand the data and data analyses generated from the
program and its relevance to program goals
Reporting
• Ensure the inclusion of mental health data into regular Health Management Information System reporting
and reports on health care provision in Liberia
• Produce reports and articles and contribute to the production of reports and articles based on program
implementation and performance
• Contribute to analytic plans and reports in proposals
• Maintain program dashboards for quality assurance
• Handle all M&E aspects of all program reports
Other activities as assigned by the Program Lead.
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III. Selection Criteria
• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of social or computer sciences is required. A Master’s Degree
preferred.
• At least two years of demonstrated experience in designing and leading complex M&E systems, ideally with
major multilateral donor proposal DME requirements
• Demonstrated abilities in evaluation assessment techniques
• Strong familiarity with the principles and current approaches to monitoring and evaluating health programs
and conducting empirical data analyses from community and health-settings.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative data analysis and management skills with both large and small datasets
o Strong command of Excel and SPSS is required, proficiency in SAS, STATA, Epi-info, or R or interest in
learning R is an advantage.
o Familiarity with at least one qualitative data analysis software and integration of mixed methods (i.e.
NVIVO or equivalent qualitative data analysis software)
o Ability to concisely interpret and present economic and statistical information.
• Strong written, oral and electronic media-related communication skills
• Experience training health care workers and other personnel involved in data collection and cleaning
• Ability to work flexibly on a range of assignments and adjust to and prioritize a variety of complex evolving
tasks.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in a multidisciplinary team including with HQ-based staff, health
care workers, with mental health services users, and with persons from diverse cultures, expertise and
experiences
Please email your application to Agnes Wolobah, Office Manager/Bookkeeper @
agnes.wolobah@cartercenter.org .
Application period: December 12, 2019 – January 12, 2020
Application requirements: 1) Cover Letter, 2) Curriculum Vitae, 3) Supporting documents (i.e. copies of
degrees, diplomas, certificates). All three documents MUST be attachments. No links will be accepted.