Senior Technical Advisor, Strategic Information at Jhpiego Nigeria

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: Senior Technical Advisor, Strategic Information

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time

Overview

• In Nigeria, STAR collaborates with the government to establish and integrate HCV self-testing within healthcare systems, which includes training master trainers, formulating and distributing HCVST policies, managing supply chains for HCV self-testing products, and setting up governance systems.
• The initiative also focuses on generating evidence through pilot programs among key populations and national scale-up efforts.
• Senior Technical Advisor-Strategic Information (SI) plays a key role in guiding the planning and execution of SI/M&E systems and activities for the STAR/HCV self-testing project.
• This role involves providing technical assistance for data analysis, usage, and dissemination strategies, enhancing capacities for data triangulation to inform policies, and designing interfaces for data visualization and infographics.
• The senior advisor will also work on building M&E system capacities to ensure data quality and its use in decision-making, overseeing the implementation of the State Viral Hepatitis strategic/Operational plan, identifying data gaps, and recommending corrective actions.
• S/he will spend estimated efforts to provide SI and research-related support and coordination to M&E team working on the USAID-funded, Pharmajet-led Needle-free Polio vaccination using Intradermal Tropis device in Oyo state.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction on SI/M&E and specific program activities to ensure technical and financial integrity to achieve STAR HCVST goals, objectives and targets
• Lead development of project monitoring framework, indicators and tools related to data management of pilot study, collection, aggregation and data quality assessment and QA/QI to guide state level activities
• Lead the process of establishing an instance of database that will warehouse STAR community and facility-level data.
• Support National AIDS, Viral hepatitis and STI Control program in the revision and adaptation of WHO viral hepatitis indicators on DHIS2 and NDR platforms.
• Oversee real-time data use including monthly and quarterly data review meetings; implement remediation efforts that address identified gaps and challenges for project overall and at state-level
• Oversee the development of data analytics to monitor cascades of care, programmatic pivoting, and key and priority populations.  Analyze progress to target continuously to ensure activities are on track
• Support in the development of SI/M&E frameworks for different distribution models based on tools developed under STAR
• Strengthen the use of data at state, facility, and community level for program monitoring and improvement
• Support the provision of training, supervision and mentorship to strengthen for M&E/SI and data quality improvement
• Support the process of validation and triangulation of data between multiple data sources
• Oversee timely, accurate and appropriate reporting of project activities and results to UNITAID, including narrative progress reports and monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual quantitative results.
• Support and guide capacity building through trainings, mentorship and supervision on Viral hepatitis/HIV M&E/SI activities
• Promote and support knowledge management and sharing efforts
• Trouble shoot issues that arise and provide immediate solutions

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Epidemiology, Demography, Public Health, or related Health, Medical, or Social Science discipline; doctoral-level degree preferred.
• 8-10 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation of large-scale international HIV projects with proven capacity in working with a diverse team of technical and support staff
• Demonstrated experience working with UNITAID programs and strong familiarity with UNITAID reporting requirements preferred.
• Possesses a keen critical thinking ability, with a propensity for asking in-depth questions to uncover underlying truths, avoiding acceptance of surface-level information.
• An excellent open communicator who must excel in meeting tight deadlines and managing multiple tasks, ensuring quality work is delivered consistently.
• Capable of working flexible hours, including odd hours when necessary, demonstrating adaptability and commitment.
• Detail-oriented with a proactive and forward-thinking approach to anticipate and address challenges effectively, innovating and sharing next steps in the project and priorities for course correction
• Experience in HIV/Viral hepatitis 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 including capacities for robust data extraction from internal and external databases.
• 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 ODK/REDCAp, 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, Python, Revman, VOS Viewer
• Excellent writing and communications skills, including demonstrated technical writing skills for manuscript publication
• Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
• Ability to travel frequently to project implementation states.

Salary Range

• N892,312.50 - N1,455,947.92 (Annual Basic).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.