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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

Community Partners International (CPI) is a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering vulnerable communities in Asia to meet their essential health, humanitarian and development needs. Founded by U.S. doctors in 1998, the organization has grown to serve more than one million people each year. Community Partners International focuses on helping communities affected by conflict, violence, and displacement, in remote and hard-to-reach contexts, and marginalized by poverty and exclusion.

Primary Responsibilities

• Review and update program indicators, monitoring and evaluation frameworks and plans periodically relevant to donor’s strategies, and CPI’s strategies together with respective program team members
• Provide support in program implementation with data analysis and presentation of results through regular meeting with program and technical staffs
• Provide technical assistance as necessary into the design and implementation of CPI monitoring and evaluation system, policy tools, data visualization tools and processes
• Oversight data quality management and ensure data source, data collection, analysis and provision of required inputs to program teams to ensure the evidence-based decision making for better programmatic performance and responsible for timely report to respective program
• Provide close mentoring to M&E team members for long run progress and coach the capabilities of human resources to optimize the productivity, maximize team spirit and momentum to reach organization’s expected goal
• Provide M&E related support in developments of donor proposals (eg. Developing theory of change, logical framework, MEL plans etc.)
• Maintain sound coordination mechanism with expertise from various departments and partner organizations
• Strengthen existing monitoring and evaluation systems of CPI’s implementing partners and ensure the quality of data
• Scale up the existing data analysis and interpretation skill of CPI’s partners focal for sustainable M&E system performance

Regular Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct regular monitoring visits with team members and perform trainings on Routine Data Quality Assessment (RDQA)
• Develop and update training curricula and handbooks, conduct trainings on such topics as presenting indicators, designing quality data collection and monitoring tools, standardizing information systems, creating parameter queries, etc.
• Regular review and update existing standard operating procedures to be acceptable and convenient with specific local context
• Supervise team members on documentation and implementation of M&E activities which are in line with training curricula, practices, and donor agreement, providing recommendations for changes as needed that are taken-into-account of the local context and mainstream emerging successful practices
• Review/clearance of technical reports from CPI’s partner organizations, and provide feedback to team members to be able to deal with partners focusing on data quality and M&E performance
• Organize regular monthly team meetings to review the effectiveness of work done and plan for upcoming month and report the progress to Sr. Program Manager and Dy Director (MEL)
• Ensure accurate and timely notification to senior management team members for technically sound decision making
• Conduct any other tasks assigned by supervisor

Partner Support

• Access M&E capacity of CPI partner organizations Provide M&E capacity assessment feedback to partners and develop a plan for M&E capacity building activities
• Regular monitoring visit to partner organizations and provide technical assistance to strengthen partners’ M&E system according to their requirements
• Support necessary assistance on utilizing electronic databases and manipulating database objects for accurate data collection, analysis, report and dissemination among stakeholders.

Capacity Building and Supporting other Staff

• Provide technical inputs for survey/research design, sampling and questionnaires development (if necessary) of different CPI projects
• Monitor the capabilities of M&E team members and arrange the required support (both in house and outsources trainings)

Operations and Administration

• Maintain regular contact with M&E focal persons from donor agencies, partner organizations and relevant stakeholders
• Involve in the development of projects’ work plan and team’s work plan

Essential Skills

• Master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, statistics, research or any other relevant field.
• At least seven years of working experience focusing on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in health, humanitarian, or developmental programs
• Strong experience working in Monitoring and Evaluation with proven track records in executing M&E systems
• Strong knowledge and experience in designing and implementing quantitative and qualitative evaluation methodologies
• Proven good report writing skills, ability to present monitoring data and evaluation findings clearly
• Some proficiency in statistics and utilizing both quantitative and qualitative statistical software (Stata/SPSS/R and Atlas ti./ NVivo)
• Fluent communication skills in both writing and speaking English
• Self-motivated and ability to work independently as well as being part of a team
• Highly organized and able to work to deadlines
• Confident and cooperative, even under pressure. Ability to quickly develop a strong understanding of the local cultural and political context and be able to motivate others and work successfully within these contexts.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

All interested and qualified candidates are requested to send an Application Letter, Curriculum Vitae to:

Email: recruitment.th@cpintl.org

• The closing date for application is before 17:00 pm on Friday, 28 July 2023, Thailand Standard Time.
• Please clearly mention the position and location you are applying for in the email Subject Line.

• CPI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, or disability.
• Candidates are required to declare in advance should there be any relative or family member currently employed in CPI. Failure to do so can lead to termination of the employment contract even after successful selection.

• Because of the large volume of applicants, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Contract and position are contingent upon successful award of the project and final approval by the donor.