Senior Technical Advisor (Monitoring and Evaluation) at Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3)

The Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) supports the US President's Malaria Initiative's (PMI) goal of significantly reducing deaths from malaria in high burden African countries. Social and behavior change communication (SBCC) activities ensure Nigerians are aware of understand, and play their part in the national goal of malaria elimination.

HC3 Nigeria is working with the National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP) and partnering organizations to ensure SBCC activities achieve scale and intensity throughout the country. With over 177 million people to reach, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. Interventions introduced have to achieve impact with a combination of wide reach and intense interpersonal communication activity.

HC3 is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Technical Advisor (Monitoring and Evaluation)

Ref.: JHU CCP-HC3 Nigeria Malaria Project
Location: Abuja
Supervisor: Chief of Party

Responsibilities

• The Senior Technical Advisor-M&E will work closely with program staff in Nigeria and M&E staff at CCP headquarters to lead all monitoring, and evaluation activities and possibly research activities.

Duties
Specifically, the Admin/Finance Assistant will:

• Coordinate the design, analysis and reporting of program activities (and possibly qualitative and quantitative studies), in collaboration with headquarters RM&E staff.
• Prepare an implementation/operational plan for project data collection, analysis, and reporting and procedures.
• Develop and maintain the project reporting system and database(s) and train staff and partners on reporting forms and procedures.
• Develop work plans and budgets for project M&E activities, in collaboration with the CCP HQ research staff.
• Ensure the timely monitoring and reporting of all programs and activities.
• Ensure quality In all data collection, analysis and report writing for CCP HC3 M&E activities
• Prepare documentation for and liaise with Internal Review Boards (at JHU and in country, if necessary) and monitor compliance with human subjects' research guidelines for all assigned research projects, if required.
• Present M&E findings during meetings, conferences and workshops, as appropriate.
• Assist staff and partners in translating research findings into evidence-based programming,
• Build capacity of staff and partners in communication monitoring and evaluation.
• Collaboratively publish evaluation results and research findings in project documents, professional journals and CCP publications.
• Other duties as identified by supervisor

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of Master's Degree in Social Science Research; PhD or DPH in Social Science or Public Health field preferred.
• Minimum five (5) years experience in Programmatic Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative research design and data analysis skills, including use of Statistical packages such as STATA, Epi-info, SPSS and qualitative data management software such as NVivo and/or ATLAS.ti
• Experience designing and maintaining an electronic management information system
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Fluency in English, written and spoken

Application Closing Date
5pm, 13th February, 2015.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's and cover letter only to: [email protected] The subject line for your submission MUST read: "Application for HC3 NSTA-Monitoring and Evaluation" any emails without this exact subject line will be immediately discarded.

Note:

• Candidates should not send any other documents or attachments. Any applications submitted with certificates, transcripts etc. will be immediately discarded.
• Candidates should not send links to online resumes or CVs. Any applications submitted with a link to an online resume or CV will be immediately discarded.
• Only final candidates will be contacted for further engagement.