Posted on Tue 14th Mar, 2017 - hotnigerianjobs.com --- (0 comments)
Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, is a global leader in improving healthcare services for women and their families. In collaboration with UNITAIDS, Jhpiego will be implementing a Malaria-in-Pregnancy (MIP) project. This project aims to scale up an innovative, community-based approach to expand coverage of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (lPTp), with quality assured sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), for pregnant women.
The project will operate over a five-year period. Jhpiego hereby invites applications from highly resourceful, experienced and dynamic professionals for the position below:
Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
Location: Ebonyi Responsibilities
The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities for an upcoming UNITAID project to expand access to preventive chemotherapy for pregnant women in Nigeria.
This project aims to scale up an innovative, community-based approach to expand coverage of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp), with quality assured sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), for pregnant women.
This includes providing technical leadership to capture project performance results and provide effective, accurate and timely monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all project activities.
Advisor will work closely with the M&E team to design, implement and supervise project M&E activities, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into program implementation to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes.
M&E Advisor will oversee the implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) to capture project performance and results, including routine service delivery data reporting. The successful candidate will coordinate and standardize M&E activities with three other UNITAID countries and Jhpiego HQ
Additional Information
All staff members of Jhpiego, regardless of the level of their responsibilities are expected to:
Model the mission and values stated above
Participate in the business development processes
Contribute to the knowledge sharing and transfer process
Make responsible decisions that result in time and cost containment and clear accountability
Participate in multiple teams, adopt team spirit, take responsibility for action items assigned nd provide feedback as needed
Multitask, be able to manage competing priorities and be able to prioritize in order to meet program and/or organizational objectives
Required Qualifications
Advanced degree in International Public Health, Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences or related field or equivalent experience.
8+ years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development programs (approximately $1OM per year>.
Proven expetise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, operations research, health management information systems, reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation.
Demonstrable analytical skills and experiences to identify and evaluate best practices and state-of-the-art approaches to be utilized by the project.
Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts in
both the public and NGO sectors.
M&E experience in malaria and maternal and child health care.
Appreciation for socio-cultural differences in countries, preferably having lived and worked in one or more low resource settings.
Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Access.
Excellent facilitation, oral and written communications skills in English.
Ability to travel nationally.
Remuneration
Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.
Application Closing Date
28th March, 2017.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit an application letter and a CV as on single word document to: [email protected] The title/subject of the email and application should be the position applied for.
Note
Applicants that do not adhere to the stated format of application will be disqualified. For further information about Jhpiego, please visit our website at www.jhpiego.org
Only shortlisted candidates will receive an invitation for interview. Any successful candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.
This position is contingent upon award from UNITAID. Nigerian nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.