Senior Technical Advisor (Strategic Information) at Jhpiego - John Hopkins University

Reports To: Director (MEL)

Position Overview

• The Senior Technical Advisor (SI) will support the ACE project, support strategic information activities.
• S/he will provide technical assistance and capacity building to the SI team and its stakeholders in the development of and implementation of data analysis, use, and dissemination strategy.
• S/he will additionally design strategy and activities to improve capacity on triangulating data from multiple data sources to inform policy and decision-making.
• S/he will contribute to the design of robust, user-friendly, high-quality interfaces for data visualization and data dissemination to enhance district-led and nationally supported evidence-based programming for improved understanding of HIV burden across interventions (95-95-95 cascade).
• S/he will additionally provide technical assistance to design and implement strategy to build capacity of M&E systems to oversee data quality and data use for decision making (including capacity building of M&E staff).

Responsibilities

• Provides technical support for the collection, analysis, triangulation and interpretation of data and the calculation of programmatic, surveillance, demographic and epidemiological indicators;
• Contributes to the analysis of correlations between coverage rates and disease incidence rates;
• Contributes to the identification and analysis of data from multiple sources in order to identify national and sub national trends and risk factors by population group;
• Reviews and enhances systems for the analysis, triangulation, interpretation, dissemination and utilization of data from multiple sources (routine, survey, surveillance and vital statistics among others) for policy making;
• Engages in discussions with health informatics staff to design robust, user-friendly, high-quality interfaces within the integrated Health Information Systems for data dissemination and data utilization;
• Facilitates training/workshops related to data analysis, dissemination and use of information;
• Identifies and strengthens regular national- and district-level platforms for evidence-based programing, including the establishment of a program performance review meeting;
• Ensure compliance to donor reporting requirements into DATIM and other formats for high frequency reporting.
• Provide technical leadership to SIO on all M&E related issues.
• Support program reporting to donors and GON.
• Performs other duties assigned by supervisor

Required Qualifications / Experience

• Master’s Degree in Public Health, Statistics, Epidemiology, Geography and other related areas with 8 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation in international development related to HIV/AIDS comprehensive services.
• 9 years practical or demonstrable experience in monitoring and evaluation or data management.
• Experience in providing M&E support to programs working with key populations including one or more of the following is preferred: sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender persons and people who inject drugs.
• Previous experience working with USAID or PEPFAR-supported programs including familiarity with USAID M&E reporting requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to be the technical specialist and as the lead subject matter expert in monitoring and evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to perform complex data analytics utilizing Microsoft Excel, STATA, Epi Info and/or other analytic software and to provide evidence-based recommendations accordingly.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the use of GIS and other tools to support geo-spatial display of data to target program interventions and resources.

Required Abilities / Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to perform robust data extraction from internal and external information systems.
• Familiarity with Nigerian public health sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is highly desirable.
• 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 monitoring and evaluation processes as it relates to data collection for performance-based reporting and use of data.
• Previous experience in building capacity for generation and use of SI.
• Demonstrated written, presentation, communication and organizational skills in English.
• Ability to travel within Nigeria.