MEL Manager – CDC Health System Strengthening Activity; Global

About Corus

Corus International is the parent of a family of world-class organizations working to deliver the holistic, lasting solutions needed to end extreme poverty once and for all. We are a global leader in international development, with 150 years of combined experience across our brands. Our nonprofit and for-profit subsidiaries include IMA World Health, Lutheran World Relief, CGA Technologies, Ground Up Investing, and Farmers Market Brands.

Our more than 800 employees around the globe are experts in their fields and dedicated to helping the world's most vulnerable people break the cycle of poverty and lead healthy lives. Further details about the organization can be found at: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..org

Today, IMA offers extensive expertise in managing and implementing highly successful and complex donor-funded programs in global health security, nutrition, maternal and child health, health systems strengthening (HSS), malaria, HIV/AIDS, and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). IMA has managed an average of $100 million annually over the last four fiscal years, through grants and contracts from the United States Government, FCDO, World Bank, the Global Fund, UNDP, and private donors.

IMA World Health, a member of Corus International, is seeking a Monitoring and Evaluation, Manager (M&E) to lead M&E efforts for an anticipated five-year, CDC-funded project titled Continuing to Enhance Global Health Security:
Sustain Efforts and Strategies to Protect and Improve Public Health Globally.

The program's goal is to build upon activities funded by CDC to support Global Health Security (GHS) through implementation of programs and activities that focus on protecting and improving health globally through partnerships with Ministries of Health and other governmental institutions. This NOFO will build on lessons learned from the global COVID outbreak and other significant public health events. After ten years of implementing and strengthening global health security systems, the U.S. Government (USG) will continue to advance strategies to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats.

The activity's main outcomes are to:
1) Improve prevention of avoidable epidemics including naturally occurring outbreaks and intentional or accidental releases of dangerous pathogens;
2) Improve ability to rapidly detect threats early, including detecting characterizing, and reporting emerging biological threats;
3) Responding rapidly and effectively to public health threats of international concern.

In coordination with the MERL Director and under the supervision of the Program Director, the M&E Manager will:

• Oversee the design and implementation of the project's monitoring and evaluation plan and evaluation and performance monitoring plan (EPMP), including establishing performance targets and an approach for measuring progress towards key results;
• Oversee
  1) primary evaluation and performance monitoring data collection (qualitative and quantitative),
  2) data quality assessment and data validation technical assistance using health management information systems (HMIS) such as DHIS2, and
  3) data analysis and interpretation of both secondary and primary data;
• Lead the analysis and interpretation of project data to ensure data can be used to inform key decisions in a timely manner;
  Document and disseminate lessons learned, best practices, and other project deliverables;
• Provide technical assistance to implementing partners and national and sub-national stakeholders including health agency counterparts in evaluation design, data quality, data utilization, and other M&E-related issues.
• Actively participate in project coordination mechanisms

The M&E Manager will report to Corus HQ and may be remote, depending on circumstances.

• Oversees and implements all daily monitoring and evaluation activities for the project.
• Designs and implements quantitative and qualitative data collection methods and tools to measure progress across project activities, as well as a robust and context-appropriate system for data collection, quality assurance, analysis, and reporting of activity outputs/results and…