M&E Officer - Abuja at Helen Keller International

The overall purpose of the project in Nigeria is to provide technical support, implement innovative nutrition-specific and sensitive interventions, and generate evidence to enhance nutrition programming toward achieving the overall goal of improving nutrition indices for a healthy, productive, and resilient Nigeria. This activity will support the donor’s effort to strengthen the enabling environment for innovation, commitment, capacity strengthening, coordination, collaboration, and support for multi-sectoral nutrition policies and programs among government, donors, civil society, and private sector stakeholders in Nigeria.

Specific Responsibilities:

Under the supervision of the State Coordinator, the M&E Officer will:

• Support the development and implementation of a project performance monitoring framework/plan that ensures that project activities align with required deliverables and targets.
• Utilize established systems and tools for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on the project.
• Work closely with the State Committee on Food and Nutrition to determine areas of M&E support and provide such support.
• Work with the Monitoring Evaluation and Research Advisor, to ensure the alignment of M&E activities with program goals and contribute to the development of annual work plans to identify state targets and ensure the inclusion of M&E activities.
•  Monitor project activities and track activities against the state results framework.
• Conduct visits to LGAs and service delivery sites to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets.
• Generate monthly indicator reports and track progress against key indicators.
• Work closely with the state stakeholders and train M&E staff at the LGA, facility, and community levels to build their M&E capacity.
•  Contribute to the identification, analysis, and synthesis of technical knowledge and evidence-based information in intervention areas including family planning, reproductive, maternal and child health, malaria, nutrition, and immunization.
•  Report directly to the State Coordinator with

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree / HND in Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences, Public Health, Health Information Management, or a related field
•  Master's Degree Preferred.
• A minimum of 6 years of progressively responsible experience designing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and learning tasks for health and/or development projects.
•  Familiarity with USAID/International indicators and standard measurement tools in Nutrition as well as NHMIS and DHIS2 is required.
•  Competency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and ACCESS, and a statistical software package (SPSS, EPI-INFO, STATA, SAS or similar).
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work with relevant government partners, USAID, other Donors, and implementing partners.
• Good verbal, listening, writing, and intrapersonal skills essential for effective interaction among several institutions and staff involved in a broad range of activities.
• Experience in organizing and facilitating systems strengthening, capacity development and mentoring processes.
•  Fluent in English (written and oral communication