Job Description

Candidate Specification

Education:
Essential: Higher Education (post-graduate) degree in a related discipline: e.g. public health; veterinary, laboratory science; development studies.
Desirable:, M&E post graduate qualification
Training:
Essential: Relevant courses in M&E technical areas
Desirable: Relevant topic areas such as: surveillance systems; One Health, laboratory systems strengthening

Experience:
Essential:

• Significant experience working in grant /programme implementation in low- and middle-income settings.
• Experience in monitoring evaluating programmes, particularly multi-site but preferably multi-country programmes.
• Experience using results frameworks (e.g. log frames or similar results tracking tools).
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders at a senior level.
• Demonstrated ability to work within teams in a multi-disciplinary, multi-country environment, including ease working in multi-cultural, multi-lingual working environments.
• Country based experience relevant to the regional location of this position.

Desirable:

• History and track-record of providing technical advice to programmes, organisations or other institutions.
• Experience co-ordinating or working with operational research studies.
• Working with a funding agency or similar organisations
• Knowledge and networks (partnerships and associates) in LMICs
• Experience of working with major development partners such as DFID, USAID, EU, World Bank, UN health agencies & global bodies

Key Skills:
Essential:

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyse problems and identify solutions.
• Ability to review and analyse data findings and results.
• Excellent written communication and report writing skills, including providing data summary syntheses and recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively: communicating, building relationships, and influencing effectively with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Able to multi-task, work to deadlines, and maintain a critical overview of interrelated tasks, projects, and issues, ensuring delivery according to targets and timelines.
• Demonstrated experience of situating programme results within a broader implementation context (e.g. against expenditure and budget frameworks).
• Excellent written and oral English language skills.
• Desirable:
• Ability to work in other language(s) of the region would be considered an asset.

The position holder will be responsible for leading on M&E matters in relation to Fleming Fund country, regional and fellowship grants awarded within the region. The position is for an M&E expert based within the Regional Team who will be predominantly responsible for monitoring and managing grant achievements and results. The entire Fleming Fund Grants Programme will be evaluated by an independent evaluation team, who have been appointed by the UK Department of Health. The successful candidate will have grant /programme evaluation experience to inform monitoring practice and application that feeds into the ongoing development of a strong monitoring system, that is relevant for evaluation needs.

Primarily, this position will be responsible for ensuring grantees are supported adequately to be compliant with programme M&E needs. This will involve working closely with grantees, ensuring they understand the requirements and have the capacity to fulfil them. The position is also to support the regional and core HQ management teams in the end-to-end process of grant management. The role will help to ensure the highest quality professional standards in the conduct and implementation of the Fleming Fund Grants Programme. This will entail working as part of a team, with support from experts in the regional office and HQ level. There will likely be high-level liaison with partners in the region, from grantees to national governments, and agencies such as: WHO, FAO and World Organisation for Animal Health (formerly OIE)

This role will include regular travel to multiple countries within the region for on-site verification and grantee liaison.

Contract Type

Contract

Discipline

Consultancy, Health, International Development

Job Profile

Drug-resistant infections pose a grave threat to health and wellbeing across the globe. Bacterial causes of infection are becoming resistant to an increasing number of antibiotics, with consequent reductions in the effectiveness of treatment. Estimates indicate that up to 10 million people could die each year from illnesses that are resistant to antimicrobials by 2050. The UK Government is playing a leading global role in addressing this problem and has launched the Fleming Fund as a major component of the UK\'s response. This programme is currently in Phase 2 of implementation, and covers the time period 2023 to early 2026.

The aim of the Fleming Fund is to address critical gaps in surveillance of antibiotic resistant bacteria in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Countries in these areas are set to bear the highest burden of antibiotic resistant infections. Led by the UK, political action against the problem has resulted in a roadmap for global response - the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). This is the blueprint for a multi-stakeholder global response to averting the burden of AMR.

The Fleming Fund Grants Programme is designed to align with the objectives of the Global Action Plan and to support the Global AMR Surveillance System (GLASS). The objectives of the Fleming Fund Grants Programme are:

• Laboratory infrastructure enhancement
• Human resource strengthening and work force reforms
• Surveillance systems strengthening
• Greater alignment between human and animal surveillance systems
• Building foundations for AMR surveillance data use
• Promoting rational use of antimicrobial medicines in humans, animals and crops
• To provide value for money in grant funding

The Fleming Fund Grants Programme assists LMICs by providing the technical support, grant funding and other support necessary to improve surveillance and use of data on antibiotic resistance. A number of funding streams are delivered in selected countries and regions in Africa and Asia. The majority of funds are invested to support the implementation of individual country\'s National Action Plans for AMR to ensure country ownership, alignment of approach with stakeholders, and sustainability. The Fleming Fund uses a One Health approach by promoting cross-sectoral approaches to surveillance of resistant organisms and the drivers of resistance development (e.g. use of antibiotics in agriculture, animal health, and in human medicine). Additional funding is available for the Fleming Fellowship Scheme to provide professional development and improved awareness and advocacy. This is complemented by funding streams to provide Regional Grants to improve surveillance and the use of data, operational research, online learning, and for strategic investments in collaboration with other donors.

Recruiter Contact

Janet Thatcher

Website Region

Asia Pacific

Website Sector

International development

Sector

International development

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Work pattern

Full time

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