Monitoring & Evaluation Associate at Management Sciences for Health (MSH) - Niger

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves health, especially among the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. Our mission is to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Monitoring & Evaluation Associate - Niger

Job ID: 13-7639
Location: NG-Niger State

Overall Responsibilities
The key expectations of the M&E Associate’s position is to support the state M&E Specialist in ensuring that MSH’s M&E system within the state is well positioned to provide continuous technical guidance, capacity building, M&E systems strengthening to MSH supported facilities, Community Based Organizations, the Local and State M&E Teams.

Specific Responsibilities

Data Documentation
The M&E associate will be responsible in

• Supporting the M&E Specialist by guiding the data clerks and facility M&E Officers review patient level information into the appropriate Patient Monitoring and Management (PMM) forms and registers on a routine basis.
• Support the data clerks and facility M&E Officers in ensuring that the folder management systems within the facilities are well functional and able to ensure prompt retrieval of patient records

Data Collection & Reporting

• The M&E associate will be responsible for data collection, gathering, collation and validation from the health facilities, CBOs and other supported organizations.
• The M&E associate will support the M&E specialist in ensuring high data quality to meet our funder’s data demands and other national and international expectations.
• The M&E associate will support the M&E specialist in managing the state database and ensuring that their state teams and country office readily have access to data for driving decision making.
• The M&E associate will be responsible for data entry into the District Health Information System (DHIS 2.0) for both MSH and the USG DHIS 2.1 instance platform.
• Any other Duties assigned by the M & E Specialist

Qualifications

• Degree in Statistics, Epidemiology or related field with 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.
• Excellent inter-personal, multi-cultural and team building skills.
• Strong computer skills particularly in spreadsheets, database and statistical applications.
• Experience working in HIV/AIDS programs in Nigeria. Familiarity with PEPFAR reporting systems highly desirable, particularly for HIV Counseling and Testing, prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission, ART, palliative care, and OVC desirable
• Good writing skills, oral and written communication skills and fluency in English

Application Closing Date
18th July, 2014

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should :
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