Urgent Recruitment @ Population Services International (PSI) – 2 Positions

Population Services International (PSI) is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Consultant
2.) Receptionist

 

See job details and how to apply below.

 

1.) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Consultant

 

Job Description

Position: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Consultant

Department: PMI Impact Malaria

Based: Freetown- Sierra Leone

Who we are

With nearly 50 years of experience working in over 60 countries, Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. PSI is reimagining healthcare by putting the consumer at the center and, wherever possible, bringing care to the front door. We are working to fix market failures, shape future health markets, and shift policy and funding to better support consumer powered healthcare.

There are over 8,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. It’s a diverse group of professionals with an unusually wide range of backgrounds and experience – from the medical industry to the music business – all with unique skills that we bring to the job.

 

Background

PMI Impact Malaria

The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Impact Malaria project is PMI’s flagship global service delivery project, supporting countries in their efforts to fight malaria and save lives by strengthening diagnosis, treatment, and drug-based prevention for those most at risk—particularly young children and pregnant women. PMI Impact Malaria is a USAID contract hosted and led by PSI as the prime contractor.

 

PMI Impact Malaria is helping national malaria control programs tackle malaria service delivery challenges by working to:

• Close the gaps in malaria diagnosis and treatment to get the right medicine, with the correct diagnosis, to patients in need, in the timeliest manner.
• Unlock the potential of key drug-based prevention approaches by helping countries introduce, implement, and scale-up proven interventions.
• Strengthen malaria health systems and data for decision-making to accelerate service delivery improvements and advance key learnings.

 

The PMI Impact Malaria (IM) team provides global technical leadership along with implementation support and technical assistance in health facility and community settings in up to 27 countries around the world. We are a focused, multi-disciplined, and multi-cultured team based out of Washington DC, working through PSI country offices as well as through our partners Jhpiego, MCDI, and UCSF.

IM has been operating in Sierra Leone since 2018. The project supports the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) and the NMCP to implement key malaria service delivery interventions at the national level and across ten focus districts. IM SL supports the NMCP to strengthen malaria case management at the community and facility levels, with an emphasis on addressing severe malaria and MIP, bolstering the national laboratory diagnostics system, and building capacity in the collection and use of data for decision-making.

In Sierra Leone, IM, in support of the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), seeks to improve Case Management (CM) and prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy (MIP) services through two of the three overall objectives of the project, namely:

 

Objective 1: Improve the quality of and access to malaria case management and malaria prevention during pregnancy.

 

Objective 3: In support of Objective 1, provide global technical leadership, support operational research, and advance program learning.

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for IM Sierra Leone

The IM Sierra Leone Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team supports all technical activities for the IM Sierra Leone portfolio, providing an M&E lens and technical inputs in planning activities, monitoring against targets, reporting results, and supporting the dissemination of results. M&E activities include data compilation, analysis, and use to measure the progress of interventions across all IM SL technical areas and guide the process of evidence-based decision-making in planning, implementing, and monitoring the progress of activities across the project portfolio. Data use informs IM’s recommendations on approaches to improve service delivery. The IM Malaria SL Performance Management Plan serves as the guiding framework across project activities.

The IM M&E team works closely with the technical teams (Laboratory, Case Management, and Malaria in Pregnancy) to develop and finalize the country workplans, support the teams with M&E needs/requests for data analysis and reporting, represent the IM SL team in Technical Working Groups (TWGs) meetings and ensure country-specific indicators align with the approved global project performance monitoring plan (PMP). The team also collaborates with the Government of Sierra Leone National Malaria Control Program, the Department of Planning Policy, and Information and other stakeholders such as Measure Malaria on Data Quality related activities. The IM SL M&E team recently developed the NMCP data quality improvement action plan and shared it with wider stakeholders. The team will start implementing the plan by conducting Districts Data Quality Review meetings in IM SL-supported districts. The M&E team serves as a technical resource for any questions regarding indicators, program monitoring, digital tools (project monitoring system and digital tools for supportive supervision), data management, analysis, and use, in addition to gathering data for internal and external reports and presentations.

The IM SL M&E team will continue to support key activities, including preparing the quarterly and Annual Reports, Technical Reviews, Lesson Learned Workshops, supporting analysis and presentation of project data, and developing M&E-focused learning briefs and blog posts, as well as general M&E support for technical activities, update country PMPs based on new workplans, and promote data use for decision-making.

 

PMI Impact Malaria Sierra Leone is seeking a consultant to support M&E activities from June 2022 through December 2022.

 

Consultant Contribution:

The M&E consultant will work with the IM Sierra Leone (SL) M&E team and technical teams on the following activities:

1. Support the IM SL team compilation of data for the quarterly report (s)
2. Support the IM SL M&E team in archiving select data sets
3. Provide support to the IM SL team on the project’s Annual Report, including collecting and reviewing available data.
4. Support IM SL M&E team with archiving data for Annual Report
5. Support SL M&E in preparation and coordination of Technical Review(s), Lesson Learned Workshop(s)
6. Support data analysis requests from the IM SL M&E team
7. Support the design of data quality assurance mechanisms and data validation at the Primary Health Unit (PHU) @Moses Busiga
8. Coordinate standing meetings between IM SL M&E and IM SL Technical teams and maintain a priority list of requested M&E support for IM SL Technical activities
9. Provide ad hoc support for other M&E-related activities, as requested by the IM M&E Team.
10. Assist the Chief of Party (COP) with any other duties as necessary.

 

Consultant Deliverables:

1. Draft Quarterly report with all necessary M&E inputs (PMP table, graphs per IM Data Visualization guidance, etc)
2. Draft presentations for Technical Review
3. Draft presentations for Lesson Learned Workshops, and OTSS+ reports.
4. Draft annual report including necessary M&E inputs
5. M&E and technical coordination meeting minutes and way forward/action items
6. Monthly progress report on documenting progress on activities listed in the scope of work (maximum of 3 pages)

The consultant will hand over all final documents and datasets to IM on completion of each task and/or at the end of the consultancy.

Consultant Timeline:

The tentative assignment dates are from June until XX, pending recruitment timelines, requiring three to four months of the full-time level of effort from contract signature until submission of the final deliverables.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5yrs relevant experience, or Master’s degree in Public health, Social science, Statistics, or related degree with 3yrs of experience
• Experience in data management and analysis and presenting data
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in research and/or monitoring and evaluation of malaria interventions or other public health programs
• Proven experience in M&E, including routine data collection, data quality assurance, and promoting data for decision-making and data use (preferably for public health interventions)
• Practical experience with management information systems, such as DHIS2
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, be highly organized, and comfortably work on multiple activities at once
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Excellent qualitative and quantitative analytical skills
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders with diverse backgrounds and skills
• Ability to interpret data and explain findings to non-technical audiences
• Experience in similar short-term/consulting roles.
• References will be required.
• Fluency in reading and writing in English

 

Interested candidates should submit CV and cover letters indicating the position they are applying for and submit hard copies to our office at 3 Fadika Drive Imatt on/before the 17th June 2022.

 

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you are not contacted five(5) working days after advert closes , that means you were not shortlisted.

What would get us excited?

• Detail-oriented, organized, and have exceptional skills in following through on tasks
• Knowledge of and/or experience with M&E of malaria

 

Applicants will be reviewed on a rolling basis and are encouraged to apply early.

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, colour, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

 

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2.) Receptionist

 

Job Description

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An internship opportunity is available in our office – PSI- IM Sierra Leone for an individual seeking to fulfill the experience required to work in future.  This internship is educational in nature and there is no guarantee or expectation that the internship will result into employment. For qualified, motivated applicants, this position offers exposure to learning and coaching.

Because of this, PSI Sierra Leone is seeking an energetic, dynamic, and highly organized intern for the USAID/PMI-funded Impact Malaria project, advancing progress in malaria service delivery.

The intern will work under the direct supervision of the HR/Admin Officer.

 

Job title: Receptionist Intern

Project: Impact Malaria

Department:  HR/Admin 

Based in: Freetown, Sierra Leone

Reports to: HR/Admin Officer

 

Skills and Specifications

• Manage the receipt and internal circulation of mails and information, formally recording when it was received, as well as recording and keeping copies of mail/information that is dispatched by program staff.
• Accurate typing of documentation and correspondence.
• Work with Office Administration officer to maintain the stationery requirements in the office.
• Maintain office security by following safety procedures and controlling access via the reception desk (monitor logbook, issue visitor badges)
• Ensure all the team get and maintain their identity cards.
• Support the Accountant with the collection of financial information/data including checking, verifying, and documenting bills, and making sure all forms are correctly completed and approved.
• Assist in the preparation of regularly scheduled reports.
• Assist in ad-hoc duties, projects, and activities as and when required.
• Perform other clerical receptionist duties such as filing, photocopying, and scanning of documents.
• Assist the Office Administration with the circulation of information and correspondence.
• Receive and assist short term and long-term visitors in a professional manner, taking clear detailed messages, displaying, and distributing program information and deciding as and when required.
• Efficiently deal with all incoming and outgoing calls, taking, and giving clear detailed messages (including making of appointments) where necessary.
• Assist with accommodation and travel arrangements of the team and visitors, both locally and internationally.
• Keeps a safe and clean reception area by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

 

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• A degree in Business Administration and any related field of study, from a recognized university.

• References will be required.
• Fluency in reading and writing in English

 

Interested candidates should submit CV and cover letters indicating the position they are applying for and submit hard copies to our office at 3 Fadika Drive Imatt on/before the 16th June 2022.

 

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you are not contacted five(5) working days after advert closes , that means you were not shortlisted.

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities. Females are especially encouraged to apply.

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