Director of Monitoring and Evaluation at Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves health by helping public and private organizations throughout the world to effectively manage people, medicines, money, and information. Working from more than 30 country offices and our Arlington, Virginia and Medford, Massachusetts US headquarters, our staff from 65 nations is highly regarded for its technical expertise, integrity, and commitment to making a lasting difference in health. We live our mission to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Director of Monitoring and Evaluation

Job ID: 13-8138
Location: Nigeria
Center/Office: CHS - Health Systems Strengthening (HSS)
Project/Program: Proposal
Reports To: Chief of Party

Objective
MSH seeks candidates for the position of Director of Monitoring and Evaluation for an anticipated 5 year, USAID-funded project in Northern Nigeria ($75-150 million) to contribute to state-level reduction in under-five and maternal mortality, and to increased capacity of health systems (public and private) to sustainably support access to primary health care. The implementing partner will work closely with and support state governments, while strengthening their capacity in developing a robust plan for the health sector annually and provide support for its implementation to increase the use of high impact integrated maternal, newborn and child health and family planning/reproductive health interventions. This position is contingent upon project award and funding.

Specific Responsibilities

• Provide in-country technical leadership and support for monitoring and evaluation and knowledge management. These tasks include, among others:

1. Ensure the integration of M&E activities into all project components.
2. Collect, report and analyze information on project activities.
3. Ensure timely and complete reporting from in-country executing partners in accordance with approved reporting formats.
4. Monitor and evaluate progress towards annual work plans, expected outputs, including selecting and monitoring progress in meeting indicators.
5. Assist the Chief of Party in the preparation of work plans/selection of indicators and annual implementation plans with a view towards the project’s M&E requirements.
6. Coordinate the preparation of all quarterly progress reports, annual project report, inception report, ad-hoc technical reports, and success stories for USAID funding in line with the required formats.
7. Collect data for annual M&E plan and use those data to improve project performance.
8. Adapt and implement tools and techniques to improve the quality and use of data for decision making.
9. Compile information on lessons learned and expertise within and outside the project.

• Provide capacity building activities on M+E to selected stakeholders and sub-contractors participating in project activities (government, CBOs, NGOs). Required capacity building includes reporting and management use of periodically collected health information, Data Quality Assurance, DHIS2 and LQAS.
• Develop a detailed annual work plan to build technical and managerial capacity of project:

1. Based on the capacity building work plan mentioned above conduct monthly seminars, hands-on training, mentoring and coaching for project staff.

• Design and implement operations research

Qualifications/Requirements

• Required - Masters degree in Management, M&E, Health Sciences or Public Health or equivalent experience.
• Required - At least 7 years of relevant work experience in monitoring and evaluation of donor-funded public health programs Some of this experience must include health programs in Nigeria and the US Government as the project's donor.

1. Required - Knowledge of and experience in training and capacity building on M+E.
2. Required - Experience establishing data quality assurance systems. Demonstrated experience with software applications related to project planning and monitoring.
3. Required - Successful experience leading M+E activities within a team comprising staff and consultant coming from diverse organizations.
4. Recommended - Prior experience conducting operations research.
5. Qualified candidates currently residing in Nigeria are encouraged to apply.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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