Senior Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer – ACHAP

ACHAP was established as a public-private community development partnership in 2000 to enhance and support Botswana’s HIV & AIDS response. Using a comprehensive approach, ACHAP has successfully supported HIV prevention, care and treatment in Botswana for more than 20 years with remarkable results. Key to the success of ACHAP support has been the focus on results, the ability to develop and manage partnerships with government, civil society, other development partners and the private sector. ACHAP’s main strengths include flexibility and innovation in programme design and implementation, evidence-based programming, and commitment to culturally relevant approaches. ACHAP prides itself as a health development organization. ACHAP is now an independent nonprofit making corporation entity with broader health mandate, wider geographical focus continuing to build on, and leverage on her core competencies in the field of HIV/AIDS and related health conditions. ACHAP seeks to appoint suitably qualified and highly motivated individuals with strong commitment to programme implementation to the following position:

1. Senior Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (1 position tenable in Gaborone)

Job Purpose

To provide monitoring, research and evaluation support to ACHAP and its partners on public health with primary focus on HIV and TB.

Roles and responsibilities

• Review, development and implementation of Research, Monitoring, Evaluation policies and frameworks;
• Conducts research studies and analysis of nationally representative survey data sets to assess the impact of public health diseases including HIV and TB;
• Participates in the development and maintenance of a database of key programmatic related information and data;
• Lead documentation of research projects including experiences, lessons learnt, impact and best practices of programmes;
• Provides technical advice to partners in areas of research, monitoring and evaluation;
• Undertake any other duties as assigned by the supervisor

Education & Experience

• Master’s degree in Public Health, Demography/Population Health, Epidemiology and Statistics
• Professional training in M&E is an added advantage
• PHD will be an added advantage
• At least a minimum of 5 years’ experience in Monitoring, Evaluation and Research of Health, Public Health, HIV and AIDS programmes and development of functional monitoring and evaluations systems;
• Operations research experience is essential

Knowledge, skills and attributes

• Quantitative and qualitative research techniques
• Computer based statistical packages such as SPSS, SAS, STATA, MS Excel, MS Access
• Statistical Modelling
• Data mining
• Manipulation of large data sets using state of the art technologies
• Knowledge of Electronic Medical Records (EMR)