DKT INTERNATIONAL is the largest private provider of family planning and reproductive health products and services in the developing world. The M&E Officer will lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning systems to support evidence-based decision-making. The role will ensure high-quality data collection, analysis, and reporting to strengthen program performance, accountability, and learning across interventions.
Key Responsibilities
Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
- Design and implement M&E frameworks, tools, and checklists aligned with project goals, indicators, and donor requirements.
- Develop and implement data quality assurance (DQA) mechanisms to ensure accuracy, completeness, and reliability of data.
- Coordinate data collection, entry, validation, and management processes across program activities
- Develop data analysis plans in line with reporting and learning needs
- Maintain M&E systems, databases, results frameworks and trackers.
Data Analysis, Research & Insights
- Analyze routine monitoring data and generate insights for decision-making and program improvement.
- Develop and implement research plans to inform marketing and communication strategies, including digital and mass media campaigns.
- Lead design and administer quantitative research (e.g., consumer surveys), including appropriate sampling methodologies
- Analyze qualitative and quantitative data using statistical and analytical tools
- Translate data into actionable insights to support innovative social marketing interventions
Reporting & Knowledge Management
- Interpret data findings and produce clear, concise reports, dashboards, briefs, and data visualizations
- Coordinate preparation by compiling inputs from sales and program implementation
- teams to produce cohesive reports for timely submission.
- Draft high-quality narrative and analytical sections of reports
- Maintain grant performance trackers and dashboards
Field Monitoring
- Conduct regular field visits to health facilities, partner outlets, and project sites to monitor program implementation
- Track commodity consumption, stock levels, and uptake patterns of family planning services at the facility level
- Validate reported data through spot checks and verification exercises
- Identify implementation challenges, data gaps, and opportunities for program improvement
- Provide feedback to program teams to strengthen service delivery and reporting accuracy.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Engage with donors, government stakeholders, and partners on M&E-related matters
- Provide regular updates on program performance and achievements
- Support alignment of program implementation with donor M&E requirements
- Participate in technical working groups, review meetings, and stakeholder engagements
Capacity Building & Technical Support
- Train and mentor staff, partners, and field teams on M&E tools, methodologies, and best practices
- Support the development of data collection tools and guidelines
- Promote a culture of data use for decision-making within the organization
- Provide ongoing technical support to improve data quality and reporting systems
Grant Performance Management
- Monitor progress against grant indicators and targets, and proactively flag risks or delays
- Support implementation and tracking of grant-specific M&E frameworks
- Ensure alignment between program implementation and grant commitments
What are we looking for?
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in health management & marketing, public health, health informatics, information sciences, behavioral sciences, epidemiology, population studies, or a related field;
- At least 3 years’ experience designing and implementing M&E activities for similar programs with strong consumer and marketing inputs;
- Proven experience designing and implementing M&E frameworks, including: routine data collection, data quality assurance, and data use;
- Experience in measuring activity outcomes and supporting activity supervision inM&E
- Experience in both quantitative and qualitative data collection, aggregation, analysis and report writing;
- Proven experience with statistical analysis software, such as SPSS, STATA, or R.
- Experience with data collection platforms (e.g., ODK, KoboToolbox)
- Proven experience with software to analyze qualitative data (such as Ethnograph or nViVo) is preferable;
- Strong writing and organizational skills, excellent interpersonal skills, mentoring and capacity building skills; a strong track record of writing and/or publishing research reports will be considered a plus;
- Familiarity with M&E tools and methodologies
- Ability to interpret data and explain findings to non-technical audiences;
- Ability to communicate clearly in English, including speaking and writing;
- Ability to travel out of Lagos for M&E related field work.
Key Deliverables
- Functional M&E systems and tools
- High-quality data analysis reports, dashboards, and visualizations
- Timely and accurate donor reports
- Documented research findings and program insights
- Field monitoring reports, including commodity consumption and uptake trends
- Updated grant performance trackers and documentation