Technical Advisor – Monitoring and Evaluation

10 hours ago

Right to Care Malawi · Mzuzu, Malawi

Listing expires November 13, 2026

About Right to Care Malawi

Right to Care Malawi is at the vanguard in supporting and delivering prevention, care and treatment services for HIV and associated diseases. We work with government and communities to build and strengthen public healthcare through innovation, technology and a strong entrepreneurial culture.

Role Description
The Technical Advisor – Monitoring and Evaluation is a full-time role, based in Mzuzu RTC Hub Office. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks for HIV/TB and related health programs. The Technical Advisor will provide strategic technical leadership for monitoring, evaluation, reporting, data quality, analytics and strategic use of data across RTC Malawi’s HIV programme. The Technical Advisor will strengthen and institutionalize MER systems and capacity within MOH, DHO and health-facility structures; provide technical oversight of programme performance and CDC/USG reporting, including DATIM; and ensure timely, accurate and quality-assured reporting in line with donor and national requirements. The position will also lead MER transition readiness, evaluation and learning to support the progressive and sustainable transfer of MER functions to government structures.

1. Strategic MER Leadership and Governance

Key Responsibilities

  1. Provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for programme MER, ensuring alignment with RTC strategy, MOH priorities and applicable CDC/USG requirements.
  2. Lead development, review and oversight of the programme Evaluation and Performance Measurement Plan (EPMP), ensuring indicators, data sources, reporting requirements and accountabilities remain aligned with MOH and donor requirements.
  3. Oversee MER and DATIM deliverables and maintain appropriate technical standards, frameworks and SOPs to assure quality and compliance.
  4. Provide strategic MER advice to programme leadership on performance, emerging risks, data-quality concerns and corrective actions.
  5. Represent RTC’s MER function in senior technical engagements with MOH, CDC/USG and other relevant stakeholders.
  6. Provide technical leadership and oversight to the Senior M& Mentor, Data Analyst and other MER personnel, setting technical priorities, standards and expected results.
  7. Lead quarterly review of MER performance, risks, workplan and transition milestones, ensuring significant deviations and corrective actions are identified, assigned and tracked.

2. MOH/DHO Institutional Capacity and Systems Strengthening

Key Responsibilities

  1. Provide strategic technical leadership for strengthening and institutionalizing MOH/DHO MER systems based on identified institutional, programme-performance and transition gaps.
  2. Provide technical oversight of MER capacity strengthening led by the Senior M&E Mentor and M&E Mentors, ensuring quality, consistency and alignment with transition priorities.
  3. Guide prioritization of district and facility MER support based on performance, institutional capacity and transition-readiness evidence.
  4. Provide strategic oversight for strengthening and institutionalizing MOH-approved information systems, including DHIS2, EMR and applicable national reporting systems.
  5. Approve and monitor the annual MER institutional-capacity strengthening plan, including measurable competency and systems-strengthening milestones.
  6. Define minimum institutional competency standards for critical MER functions and escalate systemic constraints requiring MOH, RTC or partner action.

3. MER Transition, Readiness and Sustainability

Key Responsibilities

  1. Develop and maintain the MER transition-readiness framework, including measurable readiness criteria, transition gates and minimum thresholds for progressive transfer of MER functions to MOH/DHO/facility ownership.
  2. Lead periodic assessment of MER transition readiness using evidence from institutional capacity, mentorship outcomes, reporting performance, data quality, data use and systems functionality.
  3. Provide evidence-based recommendations to programme leadership on MER functions ready for transition, functions requiring continued targeted support and associated transition risks.
  4. Oversee implementation of the MER transition plan/tracker, including ownership, readiness status, outstanding gaps, mitigation actions and target transition milestones.
  5. Verify achievement of agreed transition milestones/gates before recommending reduction of RTC support, ensuring government ownership, competency and appropriate systems/accountability mechanisms are demonstrated.
  6. Oversee post-transition monitoring of MER functions and recommend time-bound corrective support where sustainability or performance falls below agreed standards.

4. Data Quality, Analytics and Institutionalized Data Use Key Responsibilities

  1. Provide strategic oversight of programme data quality, analytics and data-use systems, ensuring significant risks affecting reporting and decision-making are identified and addressed.
  2. Establish data-quality standards and oversee implementation of risk-based DQA/data-verification approaches aligned with MOH and CDC/USG requirements.
  3. Review consolidated data-quality and reporting performance, ensuring systemic or unresolved issues are appropriately addressed or escalated.
  4. Provide technical oversight of programme analytics and strategic dashboards to ensure timely identification and interpretation of trends, geographic variation, target gaps and emerging performance risks.
  5. Set standards for programme performance reviews, including data triangulation, root-cause analysis and tracking of corrective actions.
  6. Provide technical leadership for institutionalizing government-led data review and use within MOH/DHO structures to inform programme management and performance improvement.

5. Evaluation, Operational Research and Learning

Key Responsibilities

  1. Lead development and annual review of the programme evaluation, operational research and learning agenda, aligned with programme, transition and evidence priorities.
  2. Provide technical leadership for design, implementation, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of priority programme evaluations and operational research.
  3. Analyse and synthesize programme, evaluation and research evidence to generate actionable recommendations for programme improvement.
  4. Collaborate with MOH, CDC, academic and other technical partners on relevant evaluation, operational research and learning priorities.
  5. Ensure transition approaches are evaluated for readiness, sustainability and government ownership, in collaboration with the Transition and Capacity Strengthening Technical Advisor and other relevant teams
  6. Promote translation and dissemination of priority evidence through management responses, technical briefs, presentations, abstracts and manuscripts.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Health (M&E stream), Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Clinical Epidemiology or a related field.
  • Minimum 7 years’ progressively responsible experience in MER, strategic information, epidemiology or related public-health programmes, preferably HIV/TB.
  • Demonstrated senior-level experience in MER leadership, programme performance management and data analysis.
  • Experience strengthening MOH/district health information systems and institutional capacity.
  • Experience working with CDC/USG or comparable development-partner programmes and engaging senior national and subnational stakeholders.
  • Experience in programme evaluation and/or operational research.
  • Strong knowledge of HIV programmes, national information systems and donor reporting requirements.
  • At least 7 years’ experience in research, monitoring and evaluation, and data analysis.
  • At least 5 years’ management and leadership experience within public health or related programmes.
  • At least 5 years’ experience working on development partner-funded programmes, with emphasis on M&E systems for HIVIAIDS programmes.
  • At least 3-5 years’ experience in MER programme and project development.
  • Strong knowledge of HIV/AIDS programmes and related public health interventions.
  • Demonstrated experience in policy development and/or contribution to technical guidelines and strategic frameworks.
  • Demonstrated experience engaging national and district management structures and senior technical experts.
  • Experience in clinical and/or operational research, including interpretation and application of research findings to programme improvement.

How to Apply

Interested candidates who meet the minimum requirements should submit an application letter, detailed curriculum vitae and copies of relevant certificates by 17:00 CAT on 13 November 2026.

Email applications to: Stanley.Gawani@righttocare.org

Subject line: Application: Technical Advisor – M&E