Marie Stopes Nigeria (MSN) Recruits Research, Metrics & Evaluation Manager - Abuja

Marie Stopes Nigeria (MSN) is a results-orientated non-Governmental organisation, which uses modem management and marketing techniques to provide family planning and other reproductive healthcare clinical services in underserved communities. MSN's goal is to empower men and women to choose when to have children by improving access to family planning and related reproductive health services.
 
MSN is part of Marie Stopes International's Global Partnership which operates in 43 countries and is the largest non-Governmental provider of family planning in the world.

Job Title: Research, Metrics & Evaluation Manager

Location: Abuja
Reporting to: Operations Director
Duration of contract: 2 years (renewable)
Probationary period: 6 months
 
The Research Metrics & Evaluation Manager is a key member of the Project Management Team and is responsible for all research; monitoring and evaluation activities of MSN's core business and projects to provide evidence that will guide strategy and demonstrate impact.
 
Duties and responsibilities:

• Work with project and operations teams to ascertain research and data needs, including identifying key performance indicators (KPls)
• Adapt and develop MSNs Management Information System (MIS) to provide KPI data
• Provide support and training to operations teams on how to collect and record data
• Assist with the development of logframes and M&E workplans for project activities
• Draft complete M&E plans for donor proposals and reports
• Design and apply instruments for collecting relevant data for interventions Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com
• Design and complete internal surveys, market research, consumer satisfaction
• Review and clean MSN's existing M&E data to establish a baseline for performance
• Prepare terms of reference, designs and budgets for contracting out research studies
• Collate, develop reports and disseminate research findings and lessons learnt
• Work with Regional Research managers and contribute towards global research, and be able to attend Research workshops in the region.
• Undertake regular visits to the field to support the implementation of M&E strategies Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com
• Identify and address M & E training needs in MSN
• Identify MSN M&E needs and staff, develop innovative ways to fill gaps and recruit highly motivated and performing staff.
• Under the guidance of the External Relations and Communications Manager, participate in external reviews, technical M &E networks and TWG's on FP
• From time to time represent the organisation at meetings, workshops, press conferences, or other forums
• Actively contribute to the strategic direction and planning of the organisation

Person Specifications:

• A degree in social sciences and / or a development field, or equivalent in experience
• Experiences working with designing monitoring and evaluation strategies and systems in donor funded projects
• Experience of conducting primary qualitative and quantitative research
• Experience with management of different sources of data and multiple indicators
• Experience of data processing and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data sets, using data bases, such as SPSS Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com
• Must be familiar with working in rural areas with focus on participatory processes
• Must have excellent communication/interactive skills

Application Deadline
8th May, 2012

Method of Application
Interested candidates are to send a written application and CV (as a single attachment) to: recruitment@mariestopes.org  The position applied for must be quoted as the subject of the email. Applications that do not follow these standards will not be accepted.
For more information, please visit our website www.mariestopes.org