Senior Program Specialist M&E (Team Lead M&E) at US Embassy

Summary:

The U.S. Mission in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking eligible and qualified applicants for the Senior Program Specialist, Monitoring & Evaluation (Team Lead M&E) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office. The U.S. Mission in Nigeria supports Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA). All genders are welcome to apply.

Duties

This position, under the supervision of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Data Analytics Branch Chief, will provide technical expertise to improve HIV/AIDS prevention programs of CDC Nigeria and the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH).

The incumbent serves as lead for clinical program monitoring and evaluating progress in program implementation of HIV/AIDS prevention activities conducted by CDC Nigeria and the FMOH by applying both theoretical and practical knowledge of clinical medicine, statistics, social and behavioral science, evaluation strategies, and research methodology to the design and conduct of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) activities.

Incumbent will develop appropriate data management systems to monitor health objectives and indicators for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs.

Education Requirements: MBBS (MD) or a terminal degree in one of the following disciplines: Public Health; Epidemiology; Computer Science, Behavioral Sciences, or Applied Mathematics/Medical Statistics is required.

Experience: The incumbent must have at least five (5) years’ experience with chronic infectious disease prevention or treatment programs at the local, state or international levels that entailed responsibility for monitoring and the evaluation of program activities.  Experience collaborating with host government leadership is required.

Job Knowledge: 

• Knowledge of program evaluation strategies and techniques as well as infectious disease prevention activities is required. 
• Additionally, the incumbent must possess expert knowledge of the application of program management and the translation of evaluation data as it pertains to the improvement of program operations, guidelines, and policies. 

Skills And Abilities: 

Strong skill in providing leadership, direction, and technical expertise in the monitoring and evaluation of public health programs is required.  This includes the ability to resolve independently problems related to supervision of personnel, program policy, and program operations.

Strong oral and written communications skills are required to develop and maintain effective, sustainable working relationships with national and international working partners and to prepare required written reports. Ability to lead project teams and workgroups and to develop effective working relationships with national and international working partners are required.

The incumbent must be able to exercise considerable ingenuity in applying guidelines to unique and different settings as the work is highly complex and can be threatening to stakeholders.  As a program M&E representative for CDC Nigeria/PEPFAR, the incumbent must be able to exercise considerable innovation during his/her attempts to influence other collaborative organizations engaged in HIV/AIDS prevention programs to adopt appropriate M&E strategies for their program activities.

Considerable innovation will be required to influence other collaborative organizations engaged in HIV/AIDS M&E programs to adopt appropriate strategies for their program activities.

Intermediate user level of word processing, spreadsheets and databases is required. The incumbent must possess excellent numerical skills for manipulating and reporting statistical data. Experience in the setting of computer software development standards, specifications, and guidelines as well as experience working within already set standards to implement IT solutions is required, including statistical and programming software such as STATA, R and Python. Speed and accuracy is required but will not be tested.