Technical Director, Monitoring and Evaluation at Jhpiego - John Hopkins University

Job ID: 2016-2609
Location: Abuja
Position Reports to: TBD
Position Supervised: TBD

Overview

• Technical Director, Monitoring and Evaluation needed to provide technical leadership and strategic vision for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities for a CDC-funded HIV prevention, care and treatment (comprehensive services) project in Nigeria.
• Working closely with the project’s management and technical staff, the Technical Director, M&E will lead development of an M&E system that will capture high-quality, relevant and timely data that is used for programmatic decision-making. Specifically, the M&E Director will develop project framework, plans and indicators to capture project performance results.
• The Technical Director, M&E will work closely with the M&E, program and technical teams to design, implement and supervise district M&E activities, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into project implementation to continuously improve the quality of interventions and outcomes.
• The Technical Director, M&E will also be responsible for documenting and disseminating project successes and challenges to CDC. Nigerian nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of project M&E strategies, frameworks, plans, and indicators to capture project performance and results in support of clinical service strengthening and the “Three Ones” principle.
• Refine and finalize the project logic model, results framework, M&E plan, data flow loops, work plan and budget, including selecting indicators and setting targets.
• Provide leadership and guidance to technical and program staff in planning and implementing M&E systems and activities, program assessments, data-driven decision-making and results reporting.
• Design, implement and supervise M&E and learning activities, including development and implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan, baseline and end line assessments, data quality assessments, routine service delivery data reporting and evaluations.
• Lead capacity development of program staff and project counterparts at all levels to participate in and lead, as needed, project monitoring and evaluation activities, and data use for programmatic decision-making, including developing and leading trainings for project staff, implementing partners, facility staff and community mobilizers.
• Lead efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and recordkeeping. Utilize the training data collected to inform strategic decision-making and project planning.
• Conduct targeted evaluations and operations research, including design, data collection, management and analysis
• Ensure data quality through verification procedures, including routine data quality audits.
• Lead results reporting to CDC and Jhpiego headquarters, including providing data on progress to targets and writing narrative M&E sections for quarterly and annually reports, and other communications as needed (e.g., success stories).
• Write and review technical components of materials, publications, and progress and annual reports, as appropriate.
• In collaboration with program and technical staff and counterparts, ensure implementation of M&E strategies and frameworks.
• Track M&E budgets related to project and activity budgets.
• Identify programmatic successes, challenges and lessons learned, and ensure appropriate flow of information for project management, staff, and colleagues.
• Ensure that necessary M&E planning, budgeting, and management activities occur to facilitate smooth and efficient program functioning.
• Cultivate strategic M&E relationships with other USG projects and represent M&E activities in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations.
• Ensure relevant data is entered into JADE, Jhpiego’s organization-wide performance management system designed to capture, analyze and disseminate project data
• Determine appropriate staffing needed to manage the project M&E system and recruit and manage the M&E team.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in Public Health, Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences or related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum eight years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating health and/or development projects of more than US$55M per year in developing countries (preferably Nigeria), with an emphasis on HIV projects.
• Minimum seven years of experience designing and implementing M&E activities for complex programs in developing countries, with at least 3 years in HIV programs and familiarity with CDC/PEPFAR indicators, administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems, the “Three Ones Principles” and PEPFAR 90-90-90
• Expertise in quantitative/qualitative methodologies, operations research, health management information systems, reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation
• Demonstrated strong management, leadership, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts, in both the public and NGO sectors
• Demonstrated expertise working in a leadership capacity with international donors, senior government officials and policymakers.
• Demonstrated familiarity with Nigeria’s healthcare system, particularly the public health system, and including the health management information system
• Strong technical skills, including processing and analyzing data using one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Access
• Excellent interpersonal, writing and oral presentation skills, including demonstrated technical writing skills for publication
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.
• Ability to travel unrestricted within Nigeria and internationally.
• Nigerian nationals strongly preferred.