Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant at Jhpiego - John Hopkins University

Locations: Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Niger and Adamawa
Position Reports to: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Program Overview

• The TMEC/RISE program is a newly-awarded 5-year, USAID-funded global HIV program that supports countries to achieve and maintain HIV epidemic control through provision of strategic technical assistance and direct service delivery to improve prevention, HIV case finding and treatment programming.
• In Nigeria, TMEC/RISE comprising of Jhpiego, ICAP at Columbia University, a global health leader situated within the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City and others will support the Government of Nigeria to address barriers in HIV services among at-risk adult men, women and priority populations and to build capacity of local Implementing partners, continuously leveraging data to successfully course correct and achieve and maintain epidemic control.
• This project aims to achieve and maintain the primary prevention and 95 - 95 - 95 goals that are critical to HIV epidemic control in Nigeria.
• The program will also support PEPFAR’s transition of HIV service delivery to local partners, advancing progress along the journey to self-reliance.

Job Summary

• The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Assistant is responsible for monitoring operations of the relief projects’ M&E system to support programme management and accountability functions.
• He/she contributes toward the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of the Design, Monitoring, & Evaluation (DME) unit as well as the overall TMEC RISE vision programming.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (preferred) in Statistics, Development Studies, Social Studies or its equivalent experience with a formal qualification of monitoring and evaluation.
• Minimum of at least three (3) years of experience in design and implementation of monitoring, evaluation and research
• Advanced computer skills in Excel, Word processing, Database management, SPSS or other statistical packages Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
• Good strategic and analytical thinking and ability to interpret public health and epidemiological data
• Familiarity with USAID regulations is desired.