Consultant, Support to Monitoring and Evaluation of Global IFRC Immunization Activities

Organizational Context

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian network, bringing together 191 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Guided by the Triple R approach — response, resilience, and respect — IFRC works under Strategy 2030 to deliver coordinated, locally led action during disasters and crises. Its work spans community resilience in climate and environment, health and wellbeing, migration, and displacement, while upholding the Movement’s fundamental principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality. The organization’s core role includes strategic and operational coordination, humanitarian diplomacy, National Society development, and accountability.

IFRC is headquartered in Geneva and operates through regional offices in Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, and MENA, along with representation offices, service centres, and delegations worldwide.

IFRC maintains a strict zero-tolerance policy for conduct that conflicts with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s goals and values, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, harassment of any kind, abuse of authority, discrimination, and any form of dishonesty or financial misconduct. Child safeguarding principles are also strictly followed.

Job Purpose

The IFRC Immunization Team is looking for an experienced monitoring and evaluation consultant to strengthen the performance and impact of its global immunization portfolio. The role will build on the existing monitoring setup, including a Power BI dashboard that consolidates country program data into accessible decision-making tools. The consultant will maintain and expand this system, carry out routine and detailed analysis, prepare comprehensive reports, and provide remote M&E support and capacity building to country teams.

As immunization programming increasingly includes community-based work, the consultant will also create suitable indicators, methods, and tools to track activities that are harder to capture through routine systems. In addition, the consultant will design and carry out evaluations to assess reach, quality, and contribution to immunization outcomes. Support to country teams will cover all M&E needs, including data disaggregation by age group, antigen, and delivery mechanism, along with stronger use of data visualization and interpretation. The overall objective is to help the IFRC Immunization program improve vaccine delivery, adapt based on evidence, and achieve better immunization outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain, update, and grow the existing country-level M&E data infrastructure, including the Power BI dashboard, KPIs, and reporting tools, while keeping them aligned with CDC EPMP reporting expectations and expanding them to include community-based activities.
• Develop practical approaches and tools for immunization data collection and assessment, including support for tailored activities such as polio eradication, measles control and elimination, and efforts to reach under-immunized and zero-dose children to reinforce routine immunization.
• Create indicators and reporting methods for community-based work such as community engagement, social mobilization, demand generation, defaulter tracing, and volunteer-led outreach, with particular attention to polio-related activities.
• Adapt monitoring approaches to community settings where data are less standardized and introduce workable measures to protect consistency and data quality.
• Bring community activity data into existing dashboards and reporting systems so that community and facility information can be reviewed together.
• Conduct statistical analysis of immunization data, including vaccination coverage trends, distinctions between vaccinated children and doses administered, and dropout rates, using tools such as SPSS, Stata, or R.
• Review trends across time and locations to spot patterns and anomalies in coverage and health results, and use those insights to improve targeting and close program gaps.
• Design and lead evaluations of IFRC-supported immunization initiatives, including community-based approaches, using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method designs as appropriate.
• Build evaluation frameworks, questions, and plans that measure reach, quality, and outcomes, and where possible, contribution to coverage gains and stronger demand.
• Summarize evaluation results and lessons learned into practical recommendations for future programming and course correction.
• Support evidence generation by analyzing, interpreting, mapping, and applying scientific methods to identify and resolve data quality issues, including errors and inconsistencies.
• Produce and maintain timely, high-quality dashboards and reports, including the established Power BI dashboard, to communicate progress, outcomes, and lessons learned to internal and external audiences, including from community-based work.
• Provide technical advice and build the capacity of country-level data analysts, data managers, and M&E officers in reviewing, summarizing, analyzing, and presenting immunization data.
• Deliver remote training for country teams on M&E methods, data collection tools, and good practices, as needed.
• Offer technical support to strengthen data collection, analysis, and use for program improvement and data quality enhancement.
• Ensure work remains aligned with CDC requirements and accountability expectations.
• Protect the accuracy, reliability, and validity of all immunization M&E data and related processes.
• Review routinely collected immunization data to measure progress against program targets.
• Promote standardized methods for routine immunization and VPD outbreak response monitoring, including data quality improvement, analysis, use, visualization, and assessment of M&E systems.

Consultancy Management

The consultant will report to the Senior Officer, Immunization, and the Immunization Lead, while working with the wider IFRC Immunization Team, country teams, and potentially other members of the Health and Care Department such as the Data and Digitization focal point.

Time Allocation and Location

The assignment is remote and estimated at up to 100 working days over a 12-month period, averaging about 7 days per month, and includes one international mission. Delivery is subject to agreed milestones and timely completion of outputs.

Education

An advanced qualification in public health, epidemiology, medicine, or a related discipline is required, such as an MD, MPH, PhD, or an equivalent degree.

Experience

• At least 10 years of experience in global immunization programs, with substantial exposure to polio surveillance.
• Strong background working on immunization programs in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
• Experience collaborating with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other multilateral organizations or global health partners.

Knowledge, Skills and Languages

• Deep expertise in polio surveillance, polio epidemiology and analysis, and evaluating polio data systems.
• Strong understanding of immunization program design and implementation.
• Working knowledge of surveillance systems and outbreak response.
• Strategic leadership and systems-thinking capability.
• Demonstrated experience in scientific or programmatic research and/or technical support for global public health initiatives.
• Ability to lead and supervise staff at country level.
• Experience working effectively with international, national, and local partners.
• Strong diplomacy and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate in diverse multidisciplinary teams.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with changing priorities and multiple demands.
• Ability to build collaboration among internal and external stakeholders to achieve shared goals.
• Proven ability to analyze data and develop dashboards using visualization tools such as Power BI.
• Experience designing and carrying out evaluations using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating community-based or community health activities is a strong advantage.
• Excellent time management and project coordination skills.
• High-level English proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing.

Application Instructions

Applications must be submitted in English only. Candidates should include a cover letter outlining relevant experience and their proposed approach to the consultancy, together with a current curriculum vitae.