Job Openings at Helen Keller International

Job Responsibilities:

Under the supervision of the State Leads, the Nutrition Program Associate, Routine implements, monitors and evaluate Helen Keller Nigeria’s nutrition programs and projects in accordance with national protocols and policies.

Technical Capacity:

• Work with the State Team Lead to support the state in advocating for timely allocation and release of funds to implement the bi-annual Maternal Newborn and Child Health Weeks.
• Support the state in assessing personnel, logistic and commodity needs towards effective microplanning.
• Support training of health personnel at State, LGA and Ward levels and facilitate training of independent monitors prior to the VAS campaign.
• Provide technical assistance to the state and support implementation of nationwide bi-annual VAS through Maternal Newborn and Child Health Weeks.
• Work closely with the State to conduct yearly Post Events Coverage Surveys after the VAS campaign, analyze results and share findings with relevant stakeholders for course correction during subsequent campaigns.
• Maintain regular communication with other state nutrition program partners.
• Facilitate program planning and review meetings on Vitamin A supplementation.
• Collaborate with the state and partners to develop /roll out IEC / SBCC strategies and tools to support nutrition programs.
• Actively participate in key relevant state level nutrition technical forums
• Work closely with State Nutrition Officers to strengthen technical reporting in accordance with defined reporting schedule and program indicators.
• Track program progress using mutually agreed indicators, targets, and recommend remedial action to keep programs on course.
• Contribute to and support the maintenance of an updated database of technical program reports including site visits, monthly reports, quarterly and annual reports.
• Participate in research to increase VAS coverage and other nutrition interventions.
• Support the capacity building of nutrition program officers on relevant nutrition interventions.
• Support the implementation of other relevant nutrition activities beyond the Vitamin A Supplementation project such as healthy lifestyle project, infant and young child feeding, community management of acute malnutrition, food fortification, food security e.t.c.
• Perform any other duty as assigned.

 VAS Routine:

• Support the routinization of Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) in the state 
• In collaboration with supervisor and other technical staff, provide technical assistance to State Ministries of Health (SMOH), State Primary Health Care Development Agencies (SPHCDA), and implementing partners in planning, advocacy, microplanning, logistics coordination, and integration of routine VAS into primary health care services.

Competencies Required:

• Demonstrates technical knowledge pertaining to job requirements.
• Prior experience working in the field of VAS will be an added advantage.
• Able to work under pressure minimal supervision and able to meet up deadlines.
• Ability to use the Internet and computer software such as Microsoft office.
• Must possess good interpersonal skills and be a good team player.
• Ability to analyze and interpret program data using SPSS or STATA statistical software.
• Demonstrated excellent personal integrity and confidentiality.
• Ability to speak the local language is highly desirable and an added advantage.

Qualifications Required:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in nutrition or related 
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience

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Reports To: State Team Lead 

Purpose / Scope of Work: 

The success of this nutrition project depends largely on accurate, complete, and timely reporting of achievements to donors. Achievement of set targets is of utmost importance. Hence, the objective of the Logistics/M&E Associate position is to provide technical support in the roll-out of the logistics and M&E plan in the project states and generate strategic data for program management, reporting, and documentation of best practices. 

Management and Functional Relationships: 

Under the supervision of the State Team Lead, and technical leadership from the MER Manager, the Logistics/M&E Associate will develop and manage the state M&E/logistics plan and work. 

Specific Responsibilities:

• Support in the development of an integrated state level M&E project plan in collaboration with the Program Manager.
• Support in the implementation of the LDSC M&E plan and reporting formats for indicators and targets in collaboration with the M&E Specialist. 
• Work with the M&E Specialist to establish a system for the flow of information from service delivery points to the Helen Keller central database and ensure timely M&E technical support to all implementing health facilities.
• Take the lead in building the capacity of health units’ M&E staff and relevant health and community workers in the collection, summarization, analysis, and presentation of M&E data.
• Support the capacity building for program interns, state and LGA M&E focal persons. 
• Plan and lead the monthly project data validation process
• Work with M&E Manager for the roll-out of the project M&E data quality assurance system including quarterly data quality audits.
• Assist the M&E Manager to coordinate the establishment/strengthening of the state M&E system that informs policy and practice.
• Ensure and maintain the state-of-the-art database management practice at the state.
• Analyze M&E data on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis and flag action areas to the project management.
• Work with M&E Specialist/state team lead/Nutrition Program Coordinator to document and publish best practices.
• Prepare progress reports and analyze these reports in terms of problems and actions needed. Prepare consolidated progress reports for project management to submit to the relevant bodies, in accordance with approved reporting formats and timing.
• Prepare monitoring reports, analyze them for impact evaluation, and identify the causes of potential bottlenecks in project implementation.
• Sharing the outputs of M&E findings with project staff, implementing partners, and primary stakeholders.
• Coordinate the approved budget for activities making sure that materials, equipment, etc required for the activity are organized and ready for the activity.
• Assist in organizing for the dispatch of goods and equipment whenever required 
• Make regular reports to the project team highlighting areas of concern and preparing the documentation for review at meetings.

Qualifications

• Degree in Statistics, Epidemiology, Public health, or related field with a focus on monitoring and evaluation and/or Biostatistics.
• At least 2 years hand-on-experience in monitoring and evaluation with very good analytical, presentation, communication, and reporting skills. 
• Significant experience in developing monitoring plans and/or management information systems 2 years of which were spent working with NGOs in an African setting.
• Excellent interpersonal, multicultural, and team-building skills.
• Strong computer skills, particularly in spreadsheets, databases, and statistical applications.
• Significant experience working in Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM), Nutrition, Village Saving Loan Association (VSLA), Income Generating Activities (IGA) and DHIS2 programs in Nigeria.
• Excellent writing skills, oral and written communication skills, and fluency in English

Success Profile:

• Able to work with minimal supervision and able to meet up set deadlines. 
• Ability to use the Internet and computer software such as Microsoft Office, Outlook etc
• Must possess good interpersonal skills and be a good team player.
• Demonstrate excellent personal integrity and confidentiality.
• Ability to speak the local language is highly desirable and an added advantage.
• Willingness to travel to remote areas.