Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Advisor at Jhpiego - John Hopkins University

Overview

• The Strategic Information 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 MNCH+N 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 officers on the project.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction on M&E activities to ensure technical and financial integrity to achieve the project’s goal, objectives and targets.
• Support the development of project monitoring 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ensure compliance with all donor reporting requirements.
• Support program reporting to donors and the Government of Nigeria (GON).
• Provide technical leadership to M&E Officers (MEO) on all M&E-related issues.
• Initiate and maintain strong ties with stakeholders, including the Ministry of Health (MOH), Local Government Area (LGA), and health facility leadership.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Public Health, Statistics, Epidemiology, Geography and other related areas with ten (10) years of experience in monitoring and evaluation in international development programs
• Five (5) years practical or demonstrable experience in monitoring and evaluation or data management.
• Demonstrated ability to perform complex data analytics utilizing Microsoft Excel, STATA, Tableau, PowerBI and/or other analytic software
• 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
• Ability to travel within Nigeria.
• 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.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Nigerian health and social service information systems and M&E processes as it relates to data collection for performance-based reporting and the use of data.
• Familiarity with the Nigerian public health sector and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated written, presentation, communication and organizational skills in English