State Program / Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS in Nigeria (NEPWHAN)

The Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (NEPWHAN) is the national umbrella body of all support groups, associations, organizations, and constituencies of PLHIV in Nigeria, and is registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission. Core programs and activities of the Network include Policy Advocacy and Resources Mobilization, HIV/AIDS Treatment Adherence and Community Preparedness, Research and Documentation, HIV Counselling, Testing and Referral Services, Capacity Building, Home Based Care Services, Community System Strengthening, Care and Support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC), Human Rights Advocacy, and other Cross-cutting Issues including Stigma Reduction, Gender Mainstreaming and Public Private Partnership (PPP). With an estimated 162,722 PLHIV members in over 1,482 registered Support Groups in Nigeria, NEPWHAN is strategically positioned to mobilize, strengthen, coordinate and support community and facility-based initiatives, especially those promoting the involvement and participation of patients’ organizations and their well-being.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: State Program / Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Location: Gombe
Employment Type: Contract

Responsibilities

• Support the development of strategic document data collection/tracking tools for project monitoring.
• Support identifying and training M & E officers at state and support group levels on M&E.
• Responsible for providing technical support to the State/Support Group/CBO M&E officers.
• Collating reports from State/Support Groups/CBOs initiate review provide feedback and cast M&E Data generated from all Support Groups/CBO.
• Support the capacity building of SSRs (state M&E, Support group, and CBO M&E Officers) for improved data quality.
• Provide ongoing technical assistance to M&E assistants at the National, State, and support group offices.
• Participate in the development of M&E quarterly, monthly and annual reports as well as generate monthly summary reports of all program areas from the State Networks into the data management software
• Participate in routine monitoring visits to project sites, including the conduct of data quality assurance using standard tools.
• Support daily administrative and technical project implementation
• Liaise with sub-recipients, consultants, partners, etc. for collection, collation, and analysis of field data and reports and forward the same to the program manager.
• Coordinates programs at the project site and in the office
• Train and educate volunteers on data collection and interpretation
• Design data collection forms for collating activities done
• Give reports on activities being carried out by the program department as stipulated in the manual
• Organize Training/workshops on HIV/AIDS for staff and volunteers
• Carry out health talks/Health education, nutritional counseling, career counseling, and HIV counseling and Testing at the project site
• Design data collection forms for collating activities done
• Analyze State level data (Quantitative and Qualitative Data)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or HND in Social Sciences or other related disciplines.
• Previous work experience in Global Fund HIV/TB Grants
• 5 years of work experience in NGO/CBO or Int’l organizations setting
• Basic Data Analytics skills (Using any of the following; SPSS, STATA, Excel, or Power B.I)
• Basic Knowledge of Gender and Human right program implementation
• Advance Knowledge of Electronic Information Management Systems (EIMS)
• Excellent Report writing and presentation skills
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills, plus organizational and administrative skills
• Working knowledge of Care & Support in HIV interventions in Nigeria.
• Attentive to details, highly organized, and self-motivated.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method for Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their detailed Curriculum Vitae and a 1-page Capacity statement attached as one MS Word Document to: hr@nepwhan.org using their Name, Position, and Location (e.g. Peter James Okoh_NEPWHAN Headquarters, Abuja) as the subject of the mail.

Note

• Preference will be given to persons living with HIV (PLHIV), who are qualified for the position.
• Only successful candidates will be contacted at every stage.