MEL Officer at Palladium Group

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Assist in the implementation of the activity monitoring, evaluation and learning plan;
• Supports the implementation of the framework for project results measurement, accountability, learning, and development effectiveness that will measure and report IHP success in supported States;Provides support for performance monitoring and evaluation to IHP State Teams;
• Supports analyses of results and ensures that lessons learnt and best practices are captured, synthesized, reported, and disseminated;
• Summarize, analyze and interpret data and reports for monitoring project activities;
• Assist in training team members, health staff and partners at all levels in completion, analysis, reporting and utilization of information collected for operational and strategic needs of the project;
• Assist in training and monitoring partners / stakeholders in the use of data for management decision-making; enabling result based management;
• Monitor the implementation of project specific M&E activities ensuring compliance with set standards, checking and correcting the quality of systems and data;
• Assist in the preparation of quarterly and annual reports to donor and stakeholders within timelines;
• Supports in the routine submission of data to all platforms within timelines;
• Supports information and knowledge sharing across project sites and partners;
• Other duties as appropriate and as requested
• Some travels to supported States should be expected;
• Reports directly to IHP Senior ICT Specialist

Required Qualifications:

 The Monitoring, Evaluation and Evaluation (MEL) Officer will have experience working in MEL of public health programs. The Officer will have expertise and up-to-date knowledge and skills in MEL 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.
• A Masters’ degree in public health, health information management or related field is desirable.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience, implementing, monitoring, evaluation and learning tasks for public health projects.
• Familiarity with USAID / International indicators, standard tools and reporting, in the areas of RH/FP, MNH, Child Health, Nutrition, Malaria, HSS, COVID and other technical areas.
• Expert knowledge of NHMIS and DHIS2.
• Expertise in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint.
• Competency in statistical software package (SPSS, EPI-INFO, STATA, SAS or similar) is desirable.
• Competency in analytics and visualization software (PowerBI, Tableau) is desirable.
• Competency in Online / Real time data software (ODK, KoboCollect, Google Sheets) is desirable
• Competency with GIS analysis and use is desirable
• 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.