M&E Officer - Nigeria IHP at Palladium Group

The State level Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer will have experience working with facility level M&E ofpublic health programs. The Officer will have expertise and up-to-date knowledge and skills in M&E for health systems and healthcare provision programming, and experience working with different cadres of government. S/he must be intimately familiar with the public context in Nigeria and have in-country experience with USAID / International donor programs.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Contributes to the development and implementation of s the TO4 MELP to systematically document performance for technical team to ensure the TO4 implementation is on track;
• Generates robust evidence for programmatic learning that leads to action, decision making, and impact;
• Together with Senior MEL Manager, ensures the alignment of M&E activities with program goals and contributes to the development of annual work plans to identify TO4 targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities;
• Monitors project activities and tracks these activities against the TO4 results framework;
• Conducts visits to LGAs as necessary for data validation to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets;
• Generates monthly indicator reports and tracking progress against key indicators;
• Works closely with the Kebbi stakeholders and trains M&E staff at the LGA, facility, and community levels to build their M&E capacity;
• Contributes 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. 

Required Qualifications:

The State level Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer will have experience working with facility level M&E ofpublic health programs. The Officer will have expertise and up-to-date knowledge and skills in M&E for health systems and healthcare provision programming, and experience working with different cadres of government. S/he must be intimately familiar with the public context in Nigeria and have in-country experience with USAID / International donor programs. Additional qualifications include: 

• A Bachelor’s degree / HND in demography, statistics, social sciences, public health, health information management or related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of progressively responsible experience designing, implementing, monitoring, evaluation and learning tasks for health and/or development projects.
• Familiarity with USAID / International indicators and standard measurement tools in the areas of reproductive health/family planning, maternal and neonatal health and other relevant technical areas.
• Competency in MS Word, Excel, and 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 at organizing and facilitating systems strengthening, capacity development and mentoring processes
• Fluent in English (written and oral communication) and Hausa.