Director of Monitoring and Evaluation - MAPS at Management Sciences For Health - MSH

Overview

• MSH is seeking highly qualified candidates for an anticipated five-year USAID funded malaria program in Nigeria.
• This program will strengthen delivery of malaria case management: delivery of quality services for management of malaria and its complications, prevention of malaria in pregnancy, and integrated community case management.
• Availability of the position is contingent upon issuance of a USAID funding mechanism, and selection of final applicant is subject to USAID approval.
• Preference will be given to candidates with relevant experience in Nigeria.

Specific Responsibilities
Provide in-country technical leadership and support for monitoring and evaluation and knowledge management. These tasks include, among others:

• Ensure the integration of M&E activities into all project components.
• Collect, report and analyze information on project activities.
• Ensure timely and complete reporting from in-country executing partners in accordance with approved reporting formats.
• Monitor and evaluate progress towards annual work plans, expected outputs, including selecting and monitoring progress in meeting indicators.
• Assist the Chief of Party in the preparation of work plans/selection of indicators and annual implementation plans with a view towards the project’s M&E requirements.
• Coordinate the preparation of all quarterly progress reports, annual project report, inception report, ad-hoc technical reports, and success stories for USAID funding in line with the required formats.
• Collect data for annual M&E plan and use those data to improve project performance.
• Adapt and implement tools and techniques to improve the quality and use of data for decision making.
• Compile information on lessons learned and expertise within and outside the project.
• Provide capacity building activities on M+E to selected stakeholders and sub-contractors participating in project activities (government, CBOs, NGOs). Required capacity building includes reporting and management use of periodically collected health information, Data Quality Assurance, DHIS2 and LQAS.
• Develop a detailed annual work plan to build technical and managerial capacity of project.
• Based on the capacity building work plan mentioned above conduct monthly seminars, hands-on training, mentoring and coaching for project staff.
• Design and implement operations research.

Qualifications

• Masters' Degree in Management, M&E, Health Sciences or public health or equivalent experience.
• At least 7 years of relevant work experience in monitoring and evaluation of donor-funded public health programs; some of this experience must include health programs in Nigeria and the US Government as the project’s donor.
• Knowledge of and experience in training and capacity building on M+E.
• Experience establishing data quality assurance systems. Demonstrated experience with software applications related to project planning and monitoring.
• Successful experience leading M+E activities within a team comprising staff and consultant coming from diverse organizations.
• Prior experience conducting operations research desirable.
• Successful experience in sharing knowledge, documenting experience, supporting creative initiatives, and sharing credit.
• Demonstrated strategic agility, diplomacy, conflict management, team building, and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to make timely effective decisions
• Willingness to travel within project areas as needed.
• Excellent written communication in English is required.