Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor at Jhpiego - John Hopkins University

Overview

• The M&E Advisor provides technical leadership and project oversight for the program's Strategic Information (SI) component. This includes all monitoring, evaluation, analytics, and reporting of performance and results for the project. The Advisor will work with program and technical staff to maintain accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive monitoring frameworks and will provide guidance and supervisory support to other M&E specialist/officers and, including strengthening Government M&E systems on the project.
• Reporting to the Project Director and working closely with QI project senior management, Jhpiego M&E director, government counterparts, and donors, the Advisor will ensure that high-quality, timely, and harmonized data are collected, managed, analyzed, and reported in line with national data systems, donor requirements, and Jhpiego standards. The role will lead development and implementation of the Project Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (PMEP), results frameworks, indicators, data collection tools, and supervise reporting mechanisms across state. The role will champion digital M&E systems, including HMIS platforms, web-based reporting tools, use of AI, dashboards, and community reporting systems, ensuring interoperability, data integrity, and audit readiness, ensuring advanced data analytics, availability of credible evidence for donor reporting and strategic engagement, and promote systematic use of data to support accountability, adaptive management, and QI performance improvement across the project

Responsibilities
M&E Leadership, Strategy & System Design

• Provide leadership and direction on M&E activities to ensure technical and financial integrity to achieve the project’s goal, objectives and targets.
• Lead the design, development and implementation of project monitoring and evaluation framework, indicators and tools related to data management, collection, aggregation and data quality assessment and QA/QI to guide state-level activities
• Oversee real-time data use, including facilitating monthly and quarterly data review meetings and track progress, results, and outcomes of the project across all implementation levels.
• Implement remediation efforts to address identified gaps and challenges for the project at both the national and state levels.
• Strengthen the use of data at all project levels for program monitoring and improvement.
• Support program reporting to donors and the Government of Nigeria (GON) - Lead preparation and quality assurance of M&E sections of donor reports, proposals, and technical deliverables, ensuring accuracy and alignment with approved results frameworks.
• Ensure alignment of project M&E systems withnational HMIS structures, Global Fund M&E frameworks, and Jhpiego corporate systems.
• Develop annualM&E workplans and budgets, and track delivery of M&E milestones and deliverables.
• Conduct deep dives and analytics of QI project data a linking with patient level outcomes to strengthen predictive QI interventions
• Develop knowledge products including analytical reports, abstract, manuscripts, dashboards, briefs, presentations, case studies, and learning summaries for government, donors, and partners.

Capacity Building & State-Level M&E Support

• Providetechnical oversight, mentorship, and capacity strengthening to State-level M&E Officers/Specialists, ensuring consistency, quality, and compliance across states.
• Facilitate training and workshops related to data analysis, dissemination, and use of information.
• Support and guide capacity building for M&E/SI activities through training, mentorship, and supervision.
• Initiate and maintain strong ties with stakeholders, including the Ministry of Health (MOH) and other government agencies
• Build capacity ofnational, state, LGA, facility, and community stakeholders on M&E concepts, data quality assurance, analysis, visualisation, and routine data use.
• Strengthen the institutionalization of Integrated Health Data Management Team (IHDMT)platforms to improve data harmonisation, routine data review, and data use at national and state levels.

Digital Innovation, Data Systems & QI Measurement

• Lead the design, piloting, and scale-up of innovative digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)to strengthen monitoring, learning, and decision-making within the QI program. This includes introducing digital tracking dashboards used by patients and health care workers to identify gaps in quality of care at service delivery points and to support application of QI methodologies (e.g., PDSA cycles) to address identified gaps.
• Provide MEL leadership to supportexpansion and strengthening of community-based health workers (CBHWs), in line with national guidelines, to improve service delivery, community-level data capture, referral linkages, and continuity of care for HIV, TB, Malaria, RMNCH, and other priority health services.
• Ensure QI measurement frameworks and M&E tools adequately capturefacility and community-level performance, including identification of priority quality gaps within and use of QI approaches to improve community service delivery, referral effectiveness, and client outcomes.
• Lead thedesign, development, and implementation of a robust community-based health worker reporting system, including a mobile application and electronic reporting platform, to enable timely, accurate, and user-friendly reporting from community to facility and LGA levels.
• Ensure data systems areintegrated with national HMIS and project MEL platforms, promoting interoperability, data harmonization, and routine use of data for planning, supervision, and quality improvement.
• Build capacity ofState MERL Specialist to support health workers, community-based health workers, supervisors, and government counterparts to effectively use digital tools, dashboards, and reporting systems for data-driven decision-making and continuous quality improvement.
• Generate and synthesize evidence fromfacility- and community-level digital data systems, including AI-enabled analytics, to inform program adaptation, donor reporting, learning products, and strategic engagement with government and partners.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in public health, Statistics, Epidemiology, Geography and other related areas
• Ten (10) years of experience in monitoring and evaluation in international development programs with f ive (5) years practical or demonstrable experience in monitoring and evaluation or data management.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Nigerian health and social service information systems and monitoring and evaluation processes as it relates to data collection for performance-based reporting and use of data.
• Demonstrated written, presentation, communication and organizational skills in English
• Demonstrated ability to perform complex data analytics utilizing software such as Microsoft Excel, STATA, Tableau, PowerBI, and/or other analytic software.
• Demonstrated ability to perform robust data extraction from internal and external information systems.
• Demonstrated ability to portray complex data sets in easy-to-understand formats, including visualizations.
• Familiarity with the Nigerian public health sector and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is highly desirable.
• Ability to travel within Nigeria.