Strategic Information (SI) Officer - ICHSSA, Global Health at Project Hope

Ref Id: req562
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description / Overview

• Project HOPE is looking for a Strategic Information (SI) Officer to support USAID/Nigeria’s Integrated Child Health and Social Services Award (ICHSSA) program.
• The purpose of ICHSSA is to reduce the impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). ICHSSA will ensure that OVCs are cared for and protected by their households, communities, local and state governments.
• The Strategic Information (SI) Officer will be responsible for all strategic information responsibilities related to the program, including all monitoring, evaluation, analytics, and reporting of performance and results.
• S / he will lead all efforts to strengthen monitoring and evaluation, and performance reporting within the geographic area of activity.
• S / he will liaise with relevant technical advisers, counterparts responsible for district and provincial level strategic information and monitoring, evaluation, and support coordination with national Management Information Systems (MIS).

Key Performance Areas:

• Serve as the focal person for all M&E-related functions
• Manage project-specific M&E framework and plan including data collection and systems requirements
• Hold overall responsibility for oversight and achievement of M&E requirements/expertise
• Provide M&E mentoring, support and leadership to ensure adequate capacity exists to support project activities
• Conduct routine data quality assurance exercises and ensure data integrity
• Enter routine data into m2m databases and systems by monthly due date
• Manage project evaluations including synthesis of information and managing dissemination towards improved knowledge sharing/management
• Facilitate data utilization including guiding routine performance monitoring ensuring provision of analytical data to inform effective QA/QI
• Coordinate any project-related operations research & publications portfolio in collaboration with technical specialist
• Lead project M&E related internal and external reporting
• Provide relevant strategic information for evidence-based programmatic and strategic decision-making

Requirements
Educational Requirements:

• Master's degree in Health and or Public-Health oriented field, Epidemiology, Statistics, Health Informatics or related Social Science.
• Also required is experience working with CBOs and USAID funded programs.
• Excellent computer skills in MS Office suite and M & E software: Stata, SPSS, NOMIS etc is compulsory.
• Must be able to analyze data to inform program decisions.

Professional Experience / Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in quantitative and qualitative study design and implementation
• Experience with monitoring programs using quantitative and qualitative approaches
• Experience with data analysis and database and analysis software packages (SPSS, database management systems, Access, and Excel)
• Excellent technical writing and editing skills, with proven experience writing abstracts, proposals, and reports
• Advanced experience with MS Office Suite of Programs (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Good analytical capabilities
• Strong ability to manage multiple priorities and projects
• Quick to adapt to new challenges and interest in learning new skills and approaches
• Strong teamwork skills
• Fluency in English.

Professional Experience / Requirements:

• The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Project HOPE employees work in the global health field and may be required to travel or work in countries where working conditions are classified as “hardship”.
• Travel for extended periods by air and other modes of transportation.
• Must be mobile in an office environment and able to use standard office equipment and must be able to communicate in verbal and written form.
• Typical office environment with exposure to a minimal noise level.