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POSITION : Monitoring And Evaluation Advisor

Description

• Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities for an upcoming UNITAID project to expand access to preventive chemotherapy for pregnant women in Nigeria.
• This project aims to scale up an innovative, community-based approach to expand coverage of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp), with quality assured sulfadoxine-pyrimithimine (SP), for pregnant women.
• This includes providing technical leadership to capture project performance results and provide effective, accurate and timely monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all project activities.
• Advisor will work closely with the M&E team to design, implement and supervise project M&E activities, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into program implementation to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes.
• M&E Advisor is also responsible for documenting and disseminating program successes and challenges to project leadership and UNITAID and supervising the Data Analyst.
• This position is contingent upon award from UNITAID. Nigerian nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) to capture project performance and results, including routine service delivery data reporting.
• In coordination with ISGlobal (project partner) support baseline and endline assessments, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluation.
• Develop and oversee data flow pattern for country level program that will ensure timely data collection, reporting and use.
• Supervise and mentor Data Analyst.
• Coordinate and standardize M&E activities with three other UNITAID countries and Jhpiego HQ.
• Contribute results reporting to UNITAID by providing written documentation on M&E activities and indicator results for progress and annual reports, as appropriate.
• Provide leadership and direction on M&E to ensure the project technical and financial integrity to achieve program goal and corresponding objectives and targets.
• Ensure high-quality implementation, consistent with Nigeria national health guidelines, protocols, information and reporting systems.
• Lead efforts to monitor and evaluate project interventions, document results and provide feedback to stakeholders to guide decision-making.
• Lead efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and record keeping.
• Utilize the training data collected to inform strategic decision-making and project planning.
• Conduct targeted evaluations, including design, data collection, management and analysis.
• Assist with coordination of operations research and quality analysis of operations research data.
• Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures, including routine data quality audits.
• Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with other malaria care and treatment projects and represent M&E activities in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations.
• Ensure relevant data is entered into JADE, Jhpiego's organization-wide performance management system designed to capture, analyze, and disseminate project data.
• Promote and support the dissemination of project information among the project team.
• Ensure that resources for implementation of M&E activities are available.
• Work with project and financial staff to prepare work plans and project budgets and track progress of project activities and budgets.
• Coordinate all M&E capacity-building activities with project staff, implementing partners and facility staff.

Qualifications

• Advanced Degree in International Public Health, Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development programs (approximately $10M per year).
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, operations research, health management information systems, reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation.
• Demonstrated expertise working in a leadership capacity with international donors, senior government officials and policymakers.
• Demonstrable analytical skills and experiences to identify and evaluate best practices and state-of-the-art approaches to be utilized by the project.
• Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts in both the public and NGO sectors.
• M&E experience in malaria and maternal and child health care.
• Familiarity with Nigeria health management information system and other national M&E systems.
• Previous direct supervisory experience of professional and support staff.
• Proven expertise in providing technical assistance.
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in national programs and technical staff.
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple projects/tasks, short deadlines, competing deadlines and intense pressure to perform.
• Ability to interact with established networks of senior level international health professionals, donors, universities and other partners.
• Appreciation for socio-cultural differences in countries, preferably having lived and worked in one or more low resource settings.
• Awareness of, sensitivity to, and experience in working in multiple socio-economic settings and with multi-cultural staff and groups.
• Ability to develop productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations worldwide.
• Excellent writing and communications skills, including demonstrated technical writing skills for publication preferred.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams.
• Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Access.
• Proficiency in word processing and Microsoft Office.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Excellent facilitation, oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to travel nationally.