District Monitoring, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement Officer (Maros District), Primary Health Care

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PATH is a global nonprofit dedicated to achieving health equity. With more than 40 years of experience forging multisector partnerships and with expertise in science, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales up innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing heath challenges.

PATH has been working to support the advancement of health equity in Indonesia through technical partnerships since the 1980s. Our current portfolio in Indonesia includes work to support healthcare providers and communities in preventing and responding to communicable and non-communicable diseases, advance digital health innovation, and address global health security priorities.

PATH seeks a District Monitoring, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement (M&E and QI) Officer , based in Maros District of South Sulawesi Province, to support implementation of Phase 2 of the Primary Health Care (PHC) Transformation in Indonesia project, which will include the expansion of project activities to Maros District. The project aims to strengthen cadre skills to implement ILP (integrasi layanan primer/ILP), offer life-course-based PHC screening and referral services, including expanding community-based health screening; promote the use of digital tools to facilitate PHC service delivery and puskesmas -community linkages; and create an enabling and continuous learning environment to enhance cadre and puskesmas skills and further strengthen community PHC delivery.

The District M&E and QI Officer will lead day-to-day coordination of project activities related to monitoring, evaluation, and learning and quality improvement, ensuring timely collection of data and qualitative observations to inform project impact assessments and robust documentation of key learnings to inform scale up of effective project activities. They will report to the Project Coordinator. People from minority groups and individuals with disabilities and special needs are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities:

Work closely with the National Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Specialist—with additional oversight from the Project Coordinator and Maros District Coordinator—to plan and execute all district-level project M&E and QI activities, ranging from data collection, management, and analysis of data and information from qualitative and quantitative sources.

Lead engagement with puskesmas , sub-partners, and other entities contributing to data collection and/or analysis to ensure that all required data are captured and submitted in a timely manner via required reporting processes and forms.

Drive the implementation of district-level continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities, including pause-and-reflect sessions, by producing agendas and materials for pause-and-reflect sessions and working with the District Coordinator to ensure district-level CQI activities are well-executed and findings captured for further discussion and follow-up to ensure improvements/adaptations are fed back into project activities.

Maintain strong working relationships with district stakeholders to incorporate government priorities in project plans, enable data access, establish feedback loops for key learnings, and to provide technical assistance on data use and triangulation.

Provide technical assistance to triangulate routine data and community data, including from digital tools ( Kader Kita ; performance dashboards) implemented at the community level, to inform CQI and cadre planning and management efforts (leveraging existing district-level processes).

Contribute to data entry, compilation, analysis, and visualizations for project assessments/evaluations and other technical write-ups and presentations, as requested.

Contribute to the design of project-level data dashboards and other relevant data visualization tools.

Contribute content for technical reports and presentations, including district-level updates on evaluation or assessment progress.

Access and synthesize data from routine district-level sources relevant to the project M&E and QI focus areas related to the health workforce, digital, financing, and gender considerations.

Perform other tasks as required.

Required Experiences and Skills:

Bachelor’s degree in public health, statistics, social studies, and/or related degrees, with 3-5 years of relevant experience in monitoring and evaluation and data management.

Demonstrated experience in the collection, management, analysis and interpreting of quantitative and/or qualitative data (mixed methods expertise preferred), including data use for continuous quality or project improvement initiatives.

Knowledge and experience in using digital tools for community-level data collection, monitoring and reporting.

Understanding of Indonesia's primary health care health system, including knowledge of the community health services (puskesmas, CHWs, and routine reporting).

Excellent organizational skills, with proven ability to successfully manage competing priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Proven capacity to work independently and collaboratively in a teamwork environment with solid interpersonal and verbal communication skills.

Excellent judgment and strong initiative.

Strong oral and written proficiencies in Bahasa Indonesia; English language fluency desired.

Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook), familiarity with basic data visualization is an added benefit.

Candidates currently living in Maros are strongly preferred.