Director - Monitoring and Evaluation at Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH)

Reporting To: The Chief of Party
Location: Ibadan

Specific Job/Responsibilities:
Provide technical leadership and specific directions to design and implement a streamlined M&E system that enables staff and volunteers to collect data to capture project performance and results in accordance with donor and award requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities:

•     Coordinates all monitoring and reporting activities under the award.
•     Works in collaboration with the State and Federal Min of Women Affairs and Social development & OVU partners and develops and manages the Project’s Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP)
•     Builds capacity of partners and government in the design, collection, analysis, dissemination and learning from data
•     Collaborates with partners and government to design appropriate and useful community-level data
•     Maintains cooperative relationship with all key stakeholders and partners in states, LGAs and the communities including policy makers, donor partners and sub-awardees
•     Serves as the key senior-level M& F resource, working in conjunction with other members of the project management team to provide and maintain the project’s overall strategic goal
•     Supports and guides the project team in implementation of the project’s Predominance Monitoring Plan
•     Supervises the day-to-day work of the M&E staff and provides TA and support to the project states to strengthen M&E systems
•     Facilitate the development, planning and implementation of Project baseline, midline and final evaluation reports and dissemination
•     Represents the organization and makes presentations at professional meetings, conferences and workshops related to Monitoring and Evaluation.

Qualifications:

•     A Master Degree or PhD in Public health, health policy, development, demography and social statistics or other related field.
•     A minimum of seven years of M&E experience in the field of HIV/AIDS and OVC, computer literacy with demonstrated use of word processing, database and presentation software (Word, Excel, Power Point).
•     Experience with database development and management in Access.
•     DHIS and statistical analysis software (EPI-INFO, SPS, STATA, SAS or similar) is required.
•     Proven ability to work with donors (United Nations, USAID, Global Fund, DFLD, etc) and Government at all levels.
•     Excellent writing and communications skills in English and evidence of publishing in peer-review journals will be advantage.