The position is aimed at strengthening the capacity of the MOH’s Division of Vaccination and Immunization and National COVID-19 vaccination situation room in management and use of data to drive strategic planning, resource allocation and targeted technical assistance and supervision to districts.

Roles and responsibilities:
• Lead the coordination of M&E functions to support national level coordination efforts, including
• leveraging of the private sector.
• Work with partners and program team to gather success stories and anecdotal evidence of progress . Work with MOH-UNEPI team, partners, and M&E focal points to integrate M&E into ongoing vaccination planning and implementation systems and ensure adherence to MOH guided M&E minimum standards. Work as part of a broader team to design, facilitate and support COVID-19 vaccination data collection and analysis systems, feedback and reporting.
• Generate weekly vaccination data reports from the MOH data management system at regular intervals, ensuring reports/information are available for program implementation staff as required.
Support the management of COVID-19 Vaccination information management systems including following up with and providing ongoing skills building technical support to users at district and facility level
• Support the MOH UNEPI team in the evolution and application of new innovations for COVID-19 vaccination information management system such as certifications, validation of certificate beneficiaries, missing certificate requirement.
• Support new innovations in UNEPI program that are aimed at supporting COVID-19 vaccination as well other key interventions, e.g Smart Paper Technology (SPT), Immunization and Data Quality Apps dashboards, among others
Support monitoring the usage of the COVID-19 vaccination information management system and follow-up on any issues both on the dashboards generated and through field-based reports from partners and program staff
• Support the consolidation of data from the district across the different sources, as well as conduct required analytics and help the UNEPI team to generate appropriate presentations and visuals
• Support the UNEPI team in coordinating and
• communication with districts and regions, in close collaboration with the MOH call center team and
• other identified call center agents
• Any other tasks that may be assigned by the Supervisor

Required Experience & Qualifications
• A basic degree relevant to the above functions: Public Health, Social Sciences, Epidemiology and post
• graduate training in Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Minimum of 1-10 years of work experience in public health program implementation
• Significant experience and or knowledge of immunization and vaccination in Uganda including related key monitoring indicators
Ability to work with and understand health data and
• health management information systems, including presentation of data in creative ways.
• Excellent knowledge and application of both quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques – Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, and must be able to communicate and coordinate effectively with Government of Uganda officials, other donors and partners