Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director 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: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and leadership on MEL to ensure the project achieves its goals and corresponding objectives and targets.
• Oversee the development and implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) to efficiently track, use and disseminate performance indicators and results over life of the project, including routine service delivery data reporting, baseline and end line assessments, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations.
• Develop and oversee implementation of robust context-appropriate systems for data collection, quality assurance, analysis and reporting on activity outputs/outcomes and program quality.
• Lead results reporting to USAID, providing written documentation on M&E activities and indicator results for progress and annual reports, and required reporting.
• Ensure alignment of project systems and approaches with Nigerian national monitoring and evaluation guidelines, protocols, information and reporting systems.
• Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with monitoring, evaluation and learning counterparts in other USAID projects national institutions, and key stakeholders, leading initiatives to learn from project data and adapt intervention strategies as appropriate.
• Lead efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and recordkeeping.
• Use data to contribute towards strategic decision-making, project planning with project leadership and instill a culture of data use for decision making across the project.
• Support project leadership to champion holistic approaches to collaboration, learning and adapting (CLA), including design and implementation of an action-oriented project research and learning agenda, routine analysis of available health sector data sources, and application of best practices in knowledge management
• Oversee and/or conduct targeted assessment, evaluations and operations research, ensuring compliance with Johns Hopkins University institutional and local review board policies
• Oversee the collection, management, analysis and use of project data, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into project implementation to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes.
• Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures including routine data quality audits and that these are routinely carried out during the project lifecycle
• Supervise and mentor a team of M&E professionals, ensuring high-quality implementation of all monitoring, evaluation and learning activities, manage performance and provide timely feedback.
• Train and mentor project staff and implementing partners in monitoring and evaluation methods, tools, and systems.
• Support local partners tailored capacity strengthening plans as they relate to M&E, and support systems for joint assessments, mentoring and monitoring improvements and ensure they can deliver on project scope.
• Represent M&E activities in relevant technical advisory/working groups and professional forums representing Jhpiego and the project.
• Collaborate with all local stakeholders and implementing partners, especially the GON, the State MoHs, State primary health care development agencies and USAID to ensure all activities conform to the award requirements.
• Maintain excellent relationships with USAID and in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses.
• Promote and support the dissemination of project information among the project team, and author/co-author abstracts, presentations, and articles for journals and conferences.
• Ensure relevant data is entered into Jhpiego’s organization-wide performance management system designed to capture, analyze, and disseminate project data
• Ensure project compliance with USAID monitoring, evaluation, research and open data policies.
• Work with project and financial staff to prepare and track progress of project and activity budgets.
• Ensure protection of participant data and confidentiality during all monitoring, evaluation and research implementation and dissemination processes
• Support the designated Internal Review Board (IRB) focal point in-country including maintaining current certification from 1) CITI human subjects ethics course and 2) CITI Good Clinical Practices (GCP) course.

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Public Health, Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 9 years of experience on international health projects, including substantial work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development projects (approximately $5 -10M per year).
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methodologies, implementation research approaches, health management information systems, data visualization and reporting.
• Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts in both the public, NGO and private sectors
• M&E experience in R
• Working knowledge of Nigeria, its health management information system, other national M&E and reporting systems.
• Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using DHIS2 and one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: [SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Excel] Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Familiarity with USAID’s administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems
• Proven track record managing a project team composed of several technical experts and fostering teamwork.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills and the ability to think and plan strategically.
• Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector
• Excellent communication skills and strong inter-personal and supervisory skills, including the demonstrated ability to lead, mentor and coach technical staff.
• Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, organizational, team-building, and representational skills.
• Experience working with sub-/grantees, local and international and knowledge of capacity development approaches for locally-led development
• Expertise in research to practice—identifying and adapting best practices to specific project contexts.
• Ability to travel nationally to project sites.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.