Data Analyst at Jhpiego - John Hopkins University

Locations: Niger and Ebonyi
Supervisor: TBD
Reports to: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
Slot: 2

Background

• Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy (IPTp) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is one of the key interventions recommended by World Health Organization (WHO) for preventing malaria among pregnant women living in high malaria transmission countries including Nigeria.
• Despite the availability of this affordable intervention and medicines, a high proportion of pregnant women do not have access to them. Unitaid is funding Jhpiego - An Affiliate of Johns Hopkins University and her partners to implement a five- year project - "Transforming Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria for optimal pregnancy” (TIPTOP) in four African countries - Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); Madagascar; Mozambique and Nigeria. In Nigeria the project will be implemented in Ebonyi, Niger and Ondo States.

Overview

• The Data Analyst will oversee data collection, verification, and analysis for an upcoming UNITAIO project to expand access to preventive chematherapy 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) for pregnant women. The Data Analyst will provide key ‘support for deployment of tablet-based data collection, supporting adherence to standard operating procedures in data collection, verification and quality improvement.
• Provide routine reports to the M&E Specialist on status of data collection, successes and challenges, and recommendations for overcoming them.
• Support and build capacity of health workers and managers in quality data recording, analysis and interpretation, and use of data for decision-making.
• Collect and report Local Government and State service delivery data against the indicators. Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day data collection of State/Local Government service delivery data
• Coordinate all M&E data collection, capacity-building activities with facility staff
• Ensure quality of data through data verification, validation including routine data quality audits
• Conduct initial analysis of data, and report to the M&E Specialist
• Contribute to results reporting to UNITAID by providing written documentation on M&E activities and indicator results for - progress and annual reports, as appropriate,
• Utilize the data collected to inform strategic decision-making and project planning
• 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 teams

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in any of the following Public Health, Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences or related field or equivalent experience. Masters degree in public health isan advantage
• 5 - 10 years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development programs (approximately SSOM per year)
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, operations research, health management information systems, reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation
• M&E experience in maternal and child health care
• Familiarity with Nigeria health management information system and other national M&E systems
• 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 soclo-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
• 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 two of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Access and power BI
• Proficiency in word processing and Microsoft Office
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Excellent facilitation, oral and written communications skills
• Ability to travel nationally.