Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at the Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH)

Specific Jobs/Responsibilities

• Provide technical support and oversight on monitoring and evaluation of the DMPA-SC project
• Ensure that the implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities are in line with the project’s implementation plan and meets he donor and project’s M&E needs.
• Provide technical support to state officers in ensuring that programmatic data/indicators are accurately captured, and reported according to set guidelines
• Represent and make appropriate presentations to stakeholders at various for a on program achievements and deliverables and other M&E  activities
• Support the development and design of the M&E framework, tools and project M&E plans, guidelines and ensure efficient data management processes
• Provide continuous technical lead to project team on data management and regularly analyze state data, highlight importance programmatic gaps and coordinate with program management and others in addressing these gaps
• Conduct routine monitoring and supportive supervisory visits to project sites, including the conduct of data verification and validation and data quality assessments (DQAs) using standard checklists
• Ensure regular maintenance of database/information system, project’s training database and programmatic progress updates that documents achievements on a regular basis
• Support monitoring activities to project sites, collation/analysis of monitoring reports for program feedback and decision making
• Conduct operational research activities, participate in project assessments, evaluations, and design teams as applicable
• Facilitate the preparation/production of project reports, journal publications, proposal writing and assessment reports, human success stories and quarterly fact sheets
• Provide technical support to the project, FMOH, SMOH and other Government of Nigeria entities in the conduct of surveys for Family Planning programs, including development of survey instruments, survey implementation, data analysis and report writing under guidance of the M&E Coordinator.

Qualifications

• Applicants must have a University Degree in any of the following related field: Medicine, Pharmacy, Statistics, Demography and Public Health.
• A master's degree in public health will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Monitoring and Evaluation in HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Family Planning or related fields and programs in developing countries
• Working experience with Global Fund, USAID and Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation or any other donor-funded programs is desirable.
• Applicant’s experience must reflect the knowledge, skills and abilities listed above.

Remuneration package

• Very attractive.