SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Senior Strategic Information Advisor
- Notice Date
- 2/1/2010
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 561990
— All Other Support Services
- Contracting Office
- Agency for International Development, Overseas Missions, Uganda USAID-Kampala, Dept. of State, Washington, District of Columbia, 20521-2190
- ZIP Code
- 20521-2190
- Solicitation Number
- 617-0000-10-0001
- Archive Date
- 3/16/2010
- Point of Contact
- Grace Nakaddu, Phone: 256-41-4306-001, Grace Muntu, Phone: 256-41-4306-001
- E-Mail Address
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gnakaddu@usaid.gov, gmuntu@usaid.gov
(gnakaddu@usaid.gov, gmuntu@usaid.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 1. Position Title: Senior Strategic Information (SI) Advisor. 2. Market Value: GS-14 Equivalent ( $84,697 - $110,104 ). Final compensation will be based upon the candidate past salary history and work experience. 3. Place of Performance: Kampala, Uganda 4. Period of Performance: Two year contract with option of an additional three 1-year extensions depending on continuance of need, demonstrated performance, and availability of funds. 5. The Senior SI Advisor position involves providing leadership, guidance, and overall direction on the planning, implementation and monitoring of SO8's strategic information portfolio and regular contact, coordination, and collaboration with a variety of technical officials in the Mission, the GOU, development partners, civil society, the private sector and other implementing partners. 6. Education: Bachelor's Degree with a relevant discipline such as epidemiology, demography, statistics or other field related to strategic information in international development and/or public health. A Master's Degree is preferred. 7. Experience: At least ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in designing, implementing and managing strategic information activities in health, education, and/or HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries, with a preference give to candidates with Africa experience. Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience providing effective management and oversight of program activities; involving financial and human resources by cooperating partners and contractors. Analytical ability to assess research and other data sources and translate and use data for effective programming. Skill in conceptualizing programs, policies, and plans and developing strategies for their management and implementation. The candidate must be able to integrate short and long-range objectives of the USAID SO8 Team with the cultural/organizational needs of the government in order to fill gaps, improved quality and implement best practices. Demonstrated ability to provide strategic leadership and consensus building among large and diverse teams for complex projects. Strong technical skills in providing technical support and capacity building for strategic information/monitoring and evaluation. Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of state of the art approaches to strengthen strategic information and monitoring and evaluation systems, both in the public and private sector. Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with senior managerial and technical host-country counterparts, donors, and other stakeholders at national and decentralized levels. Preference will be given to those candidates with experience with international USG programs, procedures and systems for program design, procurement, implementation, management and monitoring, or that of other international donors. 8. Team Work and Interpersonal skills: Must be able to work effectively with a broad range of USG personnel and partners, and have demonstrated skills in donor coordination and collaboration a well as the ability to work the government. Ability to work both independently and in a multi-cultural team environment to achieve overall goals and objectives. Demonstrated ability to navigate and manage politically and culturally sensitive issues in a diplomatic manager and bring divergent viewpoints on policy, project, research, and administrative matters. Strong written and verbal communication skills: Must be fluent in English (FSI Level 4) and have proven ability to communicate quickly, clearly and concisely in both speech and writing. Excellent writing skills must include ability to produce and edit documents in a timely manner. Able to facilitate meetings and make logical and persuasive oral presentations to senior officials and partners in a multi-cultural context. Demonstrated experience in communicating ideas concisely and persuasively in writing through research, technical papers, reports, strategic program designs or other written documents. Ability to communicate technical information to technical and nontechnical audiences. Notice to Applicants: Must be a US citizen or U.S. Resident Alien (offshore or resident) or TCN able to obtain employment authorization and medical clearance. Candidate must submit curriculum vitae or resume specifically addressing the two Quality Ranking Factors. U SAID reserves the right to obtain from previous employers relevant information concerning the applicant's past performance and may consider such information in its evaluation. Introduction: USAID Uganda seeks to hire a U. S. citizen, U.S. Resident Aliens (offshore or resident), or Third Country National to serve as Senior SI Advisor. She/she will work across the Mission's SO teams to help coordinate and facilitate the integration of, and reporting on NUDEIL activities into the Mission's broader portfolio and enhance programs aimed at stabilization and reconstruction in Northern Uganda. He/she will serve on USAID/Uganda's Strategic Objective 8: Investing in People Team. The contractor shall provide leadership, guidance, and overall direction on the planning, implementation and monitoring of SO8's strategic information portfolio. This will require regular contact, coordination, and collaboration with different ministries including Health, Education, Gender, Labor and Social Development, the Uganda AIDS Commission, development partners, civil society, the private sector and other implementing partners. The incumbent will work closely with the SO8 team, the Program and Policy Development Office, the interagency PEPFAR SI Working group, backstops in Washington and other USAID personnel working with and overseeing Mission's activities. The Senior SI Advisor shall exercise extensive independent judgment in planning and carrying out tasks, developing consensus among diverse stakeholders, representing the U.S. Government in critical technical and policy fora, resolving problems and conflicts and in meeting deadlines. The incumbent will also perform inherently USG functions such as officially representing USAID at functions, approving policy documents, managing contract and grants, budgeting, developing planning documents and workplans, and reporting. The Senior SI Advisor will provide technical expertise in strategic information, including but not limited to performance monitoring and analysis at the SO and project level; program level data gathering/validation; trend monitoring and reporting; implementation of public health evaluations and special studies; health and education management information systems, national surveillance systems and population based surveys. The Advisor is an integral member of the USAID's SO8 Team providing senior leadership, technical guidance and program management to effectively monitor and evaluate program progress and results. The position requires a positive and proactive attitude to team work. Leadership skills are critical to the success of this position. The Advisor is expected to complete assigned duties with little direct supervision and will work extensively through diverse teams. While the incumbent will report directly to the Investing in People Team Leader, s/he is expected to work closely and collaboratively with the HIV/AIDS, Health and Education subteams and other USAID/Uganda staff and programs. In this capacity, the incumbent shall: A. Provide senior technical and strategic oversight to USAID/Uganda SO8 SI portfolio to include but not limited to: providing leadership for a strong national response; understanding the Uganda sociopolitical landscape; prioritizing and tailoring response to changing dynamics, setting ambitious but realistic goals, activities and targets for the improvement of systems; and using data to guide strategic information efforts. Coordinate the design and implementation of activities. Ensure that SI activities are integrated into overall USAID-supported health, education and HIV/AIDS activities and establish effective collaboration with other Mission activities. Provide managerial oversight to ensure full accountability and value for money of funds provided for SI activities. B. Report on SO8 activities as part of the Mission's annual strategic planning and reporting processes, preparation of Congressional presentations, drafting technical and congressional notifications, and preparing MAARDS and other implementing documents. Review and analyze reports by implementing partners, prepare summary reports with analyses and recommendations, and ensure that financial and technical reports are prepared and submitted as required. C. Ensure that all activities are technically excellent and consistent with internationally accepted best practices and relevant to Uganda. Provide strategic and technical support to implementing partners and managerial support as needed during the designing and implementing phases of projects to ensure the quality of interventions supported and that programmatic targets align with SO8 and GOU national plans and are met. D. Work with interagency working groups to develop annual operational plans, annual reports, undertake special studies and provide overall strategic and technical guidance to interagency initiative such as PEPFAR. E. Represent USAID to very senior levels of Government of Uganda (GOU), including the Minister of Health and senior USG officials such as the U.S. Ambassador; congressional delegates, etc. F. Collaborate with senior technical staff of various Ministries and other partners, such as the Global Fund (GF), UNAIDS, DANIDA, DfID, WHO, UNICEF, World Bank, NGOs and FBOs to design, plan and implement strategic information activities related to health, education and HIV/AIDS. Help build the technical and managerial capacity within the GOU agencies at the national, district and lower levels. G. Provide technical assistance to various ministries to develop and execute management information systems and performance management and monitoring plans to better capture and reflect the status of HIV/AIDS, health, education and OVC in Uganda. In collaboration with the Ministry of Health and UAC, carry out monitoring and evaluation visits to implementation sites to ascertain all quantitative and qualitative data is collected properly and ensure programmatic quality and value for money are maintained. The Senior SI Advisor shall specifically: 1. Technical and Management Responsibilities (65%) - Lead and provide technical input into the development of public health evaluations (PHE), operational research, education tracking studies and evaluations, program assessments, national surveys, such as the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey, Service Provision Assessment, the national AIDS Indicator and Malaria Indicator Surveys and Education Data Survey; Maintain familiarity with current literature and best practices in strategic information relevant to health, education and HIV/AIDS in Uganda, especially in regard to performance monitoring; program level data gathering/validation; trend monitoring and reporting; implementation of public health evaluations and special studies; health and education management information systems, national surveillance systems and population based surveys; --Advise the SO8 Team Leader and Mission management on the status of SO8's performance. As a senior-level professional, coordinate with relevant stakeholders, provide program oversight, and exercise independent technical and professional judgment in organizing, planning and supervising program implementation, including routine site visits. Also manage relationships and assignments independently with minimal supervision and limited guidance; --Provide technical direction, strategic planning and oversight of the implementation of SO8 SI activities, and ensure that planned development results are achieved in a highly efficient, effective and timely manner, consistent with USAID regulations, policies and development principles. The Advisor shall manage and oversee services and deliverables provided by contractors and grantees, in accordance with USAID program management regulations and procedures, and practices; --Coordinate with and provide technical advice, direction or assistance to the following organizations as described below: ( i) USAID/Uganda - Responsible for ensuring that SO8' performance monitoring plan is up-to-date with meaningful indicators, targets and achievements; monitoring and conducting analysis of SO8's performance; identifying and developing consensus on key issues related to SO8 performance monitoring. Responsible for ensuring that SI activities are sound and are achieving their expected results and for ensuring that all SI activities are integrated appropriately into SO8 and Mission activities. Coordinate the results component of the Investing in People portions of all operational plans and reports. (ii) USAID implementing partners - to ensure that the SI activities of all USAID/Uganda partners are well coordinated and in line with SO8's and the Mission's performance monitoring plan and GOU national plans. Work with the Program Office and Contracting Officer Technical Representatives (COTRs) to ensure that all partners are complying with USAID requirements for performance monitoring and reporting. Take a lead role in developing and facilitating regular communication and feedback with implementing partners on SI issues. ( iii ) The Ministries of Health, Education and Gender and the UAC - Provide technical assistance to develop and implement strategic information activities including MIS, performance monitoring, and population based surveys as part of the sector strategic plans and population based surveys. 2. Collaboration and Communication Responsibilities (30%): --Work together with GOU institutions, development partners, and other key stakeholders to support the strengthening of key government systems at the national, district and community level including but not limited to the health, education and OVC Management Information Systems, roll-out of the UACs performance monitoring plan. This includes attending technical working group meetings on related issues. --Work closely with senior and technical representatives from the GOU, foreign embassies providing development assistance, international donor organizations, multilateral organizations, local and international NGOs, private international organizations, senior USG officials and USAID and CDC technical staff. --Work closely with the following organizations: ( i ) The Ministries of Health, Education and Gender, UAC and other GOU institutions - to ensure coordination in the roll-out of management information systems at the central and district levels; to coordinate the collection and analysis of HIV/AIDS specific information across the different government institutions; to assist in documenting and distributing policy and guidelines for data management; (ii) SO8 Implementing Partners - to ensure SI activities are aligned across the SO8 portfolio and to oversee and coordinate reporting of the SO8 portfolio; (iii) Other multilateral and bilateral partners - to coordinate support to SI activities including the Demographic and Health Survey, the AIDS and Malaria Indicator Surveys, management information systems, performance monitoring plans, etc; (iv) Health partners at the District, Health sub-District levels and civil society level such as the local council system, schools, churches, NGOs, FBOs, etc - to ensure understanding and collaboration with reporting in national systems (v) Other USG agencies supporting SI - to communicate regularly and work jointly to ensure complementarity including CDC, State Department, Walter Reid Program, Peace Corps, USAID/Washington Global Health and EGAT Bureaus. 3. Other Duties as assigned (5%): Other duties shall include but are not limited to representing USAID/Uganda at appropriate international fora. 4. The Senior SI Advisor will report to the SO8 Team Leader. For detailed scope of work and evaluation criteria, please send email to gnakaddu@usaid.gov, copy, gmuntu@usaid.gov or access at: http://kampala.usembassy.gov/job_opportunites.html Original Point of Contact Grace Nakaddu, Executive Specialist, Phone 011-256-414-259-791/5 or 011-256-414-306-001, Fax 011-256-414-306-661, Email gnakaddu@usaid.gov, Grace Muntu, Executive Assistant Phone 011-256-414-259-791/5 or 011-256-414-306-001, Email gmuntu@usaid.gov Place of Performance Address: Kampala, Uganda c/o USAID/Uganda, US Embassy Compound - South Wing, Plot 1577 Ggaba Road Postal Office Box: 7856, Kampala Country: Uganda
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