Strategic Information Advisor at Jhpiego Corporation

Jhpiego, an Affiliate of Johns Hopkins University is a global leader in improving healthcare services for women and their families.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Strategic Information Advisor

Location: Akwa Ibom
Career Category: Monitoring and Evaluation

Job Summary

• The Strategic Information (SI) Advisor for TMEC / RISE will provide high-level technical leadership and guidance at state level in planning and implementing appropriate SI / M&E and learning systems, activities and technical assistance for RISE / Nigeria.
• RISE / Nigeria will focus its support for service delivery in the following intervention areas: HIV testing services (HTS), HIV diagnosis and treatment, HIV care and support, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) with RH / HIV integration, TB / HIV service integration, Laboratory services, and health systems strengthening.
• SI Advisor as member of the state management team, will represent the project at USG partners forums, stakeholders and donor engagement related to SI and program data management system.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in Epidemiology, Demography, Public Health, or related Health, Medical, or Social Science discipline; doctoral-level degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years’ of experience with atleast 7 years’ core monitoring and evaluation of large-scale international HIV PEPFAR-funded projects, with proven capacity in building and managing a diverse team of technical and support staff
• Demonstrated experience working with USAID / PEPFAR programs and strong familiarity with USAID reporting requirements.
• Experience in HIV care and treatment and prevention programs
• Familiarity with Nigeria’s health management information system and other national M&E systems
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating the dissemination and use of data for decision-making.
• Demonstrated experience in data quality assurance and implementation plans to improve data quality
• Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and coordination
• Strong data management and analysis skills and advanced knowledge of PowerBI, DHIS2, and electronic medical records
• Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages, including at least two of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata
• Excellent writing and communications skills, including demonstrated technical writing skills for publication
• Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams.

Application Closing Date
Monday, 12th October, 2020. (COB)