Consultant(e) national(e) en appui technique aux programmes de lutte contre les Maladies Non Transmissibles (MNT), NOA

The national consultant will support the implementation of the international consultant's mission to evaluate and strengthen the national integrated and multisectoral strategic plan for prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Mauritania. The role involves data analysis, supporting training workshops, advocacy, partnership strengthening, and multisectoral coordination for NCD control.

Responsibilities

• Review and synthesize scientific literature, reference documents, and policy documents on NCD control including risk factors in Mauritania.
• Collect and analyze data on the implementation of the national integrated and multisectoral strategic plan for NCD prevention and control in Mauritania.
• Support the international consultant in preparing and conducting two training workshops: one on WHO/PEN and another on surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation of NCD control programs.
• Accompany the international consultant in advocacy activities, strengthening partnerships, and multisectoral coordination mechanisms for NCD control.

Requirements

• At least one (1) year of relevant professional experience in monitoring and evaluation of public health programs, including data collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation.
• Demonstrated experience in developing, monitoring, and evaluating strategic plans, policies, or health programs at national or subnational levels.
• Experience working with national health information systems and health data management platforms.
• Experience in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) control, especially in surveillance, risk factor monitoring, and intervention evaluation (desirable).
• Experience collaborating with WHO, UN agencies, government institutions, or technical and financial partners (desirable).
• Experience organizing and facilitating capacity-building workshops on monitoring and evaluation, data management, or performance indicator use (desirable).
• Excellent mastery of concepts, methods, and tools for monitoring and evaluation applied to public health programs.
• Proven ability to develop logical frameworks, results frameworks, monitoring and evaluation plans, and indicator matrices.
• Experience in collecting, validating, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data to guide decision-making.
• Ability to assess data quality, identify performance gaps, and propose evidence-based corrective measures.
• Good knowledge of NCD surveillance approaches, WHO global indicators, and the global NCD monitoring framework.
• Ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams and multisectoral partners.
• Ability to facilitate technical workshops, support national capacity building, and ensure skills transfer.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with government stakeholders, academia, and development partners.
• Knowledge of WHO global NCD monitoring framework.
• Knowledge of WHO PEN and PEN+.
• Knowledge of WHO STEPwise (STEPS) tool.
• Knowledge of integrated surveillance of NCD risk factors.
• Knowledge of results-based management (RBM).
• Knowledge of health strategic plan evaluation and programmatic reviews.
• Knowledge of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially target 3.4 related to NCDs.
• Fluent in French (expert level).
• Intermediate level in English (desirable).

Skills

• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Public health program evaluation
• Data Collection
• Data Analysis
• Data Interpretation
• Presentation of health data
• Strategic Plan Development
• Policy Evaluation
• Health Program Monitoring
• National health information systems
• Health Data Management
• Non-communicable diseases control
• NCD Surveillance
• Risk factor monitoring
• Intervention evaluation
• Capacity Building Workshops
• Logical Frameworks
• Results Frameworks
• Indicator matrix development
• Quantitative Analysis
• Qualitative Analysis
• Data Quality Assurance
• Performance gap analysis
• Evidence-based corrective measures
• WHO global NCD monitoring framework
• WHO PEN
• WHO PEN+
• WHO STEPwise tool
• Integrated NCD surveillance
• Result-Based Management
• Health strategic plan evaluation
• Programmatic Reviews
• Sustainable Development Goals
• Inter-sectoral Coordination

Languages

French, English