SMC Monitoring and Evaluation Officer - Jigawa (Consultancy) at Malaria Consortium

Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organisations specialising in the comprehensive prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable and under privileged populations. We increasingly find our work on malaria can be effectively integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact and therefore expanded our remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: SMC Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Location: Jigawa
Job Type: Fixed Term
Timing of Consultancy: July – November 2021

Specific Activities for the M&E Consultant

• Plan and implement M&E activities related to SMC in the approved work plan under the guidance of the State Programme Manager
• Serve as the focal person for all monitoring and evaluation related work for the project within the state.
• Ensure high quality data are available on a regular and timely basis for programmatic decision making
• Manage the data collection and management processes before, during and after each round of mass SMC drug administration, including sentinel site monitoring
• Coordinate the documentation of SMC activities in form of reports and ensure proper archiving of such for easy access and reference
• Assist programe manager to develop robust monitoring plans for quantitative and qualitative reporting on project performance indicators
• Adapt and maintain a high quality database for distribution personnel at all levels
• Routinely monitor project performance against targets and prepare periodic reports on M&E activities for SMC intervention
• Participate in project assessments, evaluations and design including development of survey protocols
• Conduct regular data review and analysis for feedback to states for program improvement, and for updates to national level (MC and government).
• Support SMoH staff with coordinating program management activities, by ensuring that the recommended coordination meetings hold at the LGA and state levels.
• Work with the state and LGA Ministry of Health staff to ensure that reports are obtained from all health facilities within the state through appropriate state-specific mechanisms.
• Participate in regular monitoring and supervisory visits to SMC-implementing health facilities, and ensure that action plans are developed for identified gaps.
• Support the development and implementation of feedback and response channels to reflect the preferences of community members and beneficiaries.
• Ensure that beneficiary feedback is adequately documented, addressed, analyzed, and utilized by program teams.

Key deliverables for the M&E Consultant:

• Microplan for the delivery of SMC in the state
• Database/electronic record of distribution personnel for the state
• Reconciled utilization reports for SMC commodities
• EoC administrative coverage data
• LQAS reports for cycle 1, 2 and 3
• Process report for monitoring and evaluation

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in Statistics, Demography, Mathematics or any other relevant quantitative discipline
• Five-year post qualification experience
• Demonstrable contextual knowledge of local issues, community priorities, social and cultural constraints and realities related to community assessment, project design, evaluation and implementation Cognate experience in monitoring and evaluation of community-based interventions is highly desirable
• Experience in managing HMIS and CLMS as well as familiarity with Nigerian public sector health systems will be added advantages.
• Experience in survey design and implementation, development of data bases and analysis and write up of survey results
• Demonstrated skills in data management and quantitative data analysis
• Fluency in written and spoken English Work-based skills and competence
• A solid understanding of health systems strengthening
• Proficiency in database management especially DHIS; Excel, Word, PowerPoint and demonstrable experience with statistical software packages (Stata, SPSS, Epi Info)
• Strong analytical skills and experience interpreting a strategic vision into an operational model
• Proven writing, communication and presentation skills in English
• Facilitation and coordination skils

Application Closing Date
12th July, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates who are passionate and willing to contribute towards the achievement of our goals should kindly send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title and the preferred state as the subject title of your email application. e.g SMC Monitoring and Evaluation Officer - Jigawa (Consultancy).
And
Click here to apply online

Note

• Kindly note that applicants who do not follow this specification, will be disqualified.
• All application should be sent in on or before 9:59am Monday, 12th July, 2021.
• Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted
• Malaria Consortium does not accept or ask for payment during recruitment. We also would not accept hardcopy CVs; all applications should be sent through the above email address
• Individuals blacklisted from implementing the Global Fund grants are not eligible to apply for this advertised position.