Associate Director, Data Quality Assurance at the Centre for Integrated Health Programs (CIHP)

The Centre for Integrated Health Programs (CIHP) is a leading indigenous non-governmental organization established to promote better health outcomes for all Nigerians through creation of strong and sustainable health systems. The organization evolved from Columbia University’s International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) in 2011 and has continued to support family-focused, comprehensive high-quality, HIV/AIDS care and treatment activities in Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Associate Director, Data Quality Assurance

Code: SI-03
Location: Abuja
Unit: Strategic Information Management

Job Description

• The incumbent will lead cross functional effort to establish, improve, monitor and train on the data management, data quality and utilization for the organization. S/he will lead the fostering of improved data quality and reporting across all indicators.
• S/he will establish and manage the approval process for data releases to ensure accuracy and security. S/he will serve as the contact regarding data quality.
• Will lead the management of the organization, and partner data quality or audit related program including RADET, SIMS, Data quality assessment, NGQual and key Evaluation.
• The jobholder will lead the building of data management and analysis skills among the organization’s staff including data entry, verification, and report generation

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in the following discipline Social Science, Economics, natural science, Statistics or related field with cognate experience.
• At least 7 years of professional experience in the field of Data Quality Assurance and Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Knowledge management skills, including analysis, documentation and dissemination of results and proficiency in MS Excel, MS Word and SPSS and/or other data analysis software.
• Familiarity with USG/GON data quality or audit tools such as RADET, SIMS, NGQual and with PEPFAR indicators and USAID/PEPFAR reporting requirements is essential.

Candidates are expected to possess:

• Excellent personal communication skills, in written and verbal English, with high impact influencing and persuasive skills and able to represent the organization to donors and partners
• Good experience of using Ms. Word, Excel or applicable software related to position
• Commitment to and understanding of organization’s vision, values and principles including rights-based/gender approaches would be expected.

Application Closing Date
20th September, 2017.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's and a suitability statement of not more than 200 words as a Microsoft Word attachment to: [email protected] The subject of the email should be the JOB CODE and the applicant’s FULL NAME e.g.  MSS-02 - John Bull.

Note: Only short listed candidates will be contacted.