Analytics Head at MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all. Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial, ahigh-qualitynd results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centered care in their own communities.

As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too. We know that access to reproductive choice is life-changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Analytics Head

Location: Abuja (FCT) 
Employment Type: Full-time

The Role

• The Analytics Head leads MSI Nigeria’s data analytics and reporting function, ensuring that high-quality, timely, and decision-relevant insights are available to programme, clinical, and organisational leadership.
• The role sets the analytical agenda for the department, governs reporting standards, and builds the organisation’s internal data literacy and analytical capability.
• The Analytics Head works closely with Programmes, Operations, M&E, MEL, Research, and Clinical Services teams, and ensures that analytical outputs from all decision-support systems are fit for purpose, accurate, and strategically meaningful.

Key Responsibilities
Analytics Strategy & Leadership:

• Develop and drive the analytics strategy for MSI Nigeria, ensuring analytical capabilities align with programmatic and operational decision-making needs.
• Set quality standards for all analytical outputs including dashboards, reports, datasets, and ad hoc analyses.
• Oversee the organisation’s reporting infrastructure, including Power BI, Excel, MIS-Sun Reporting, and other business intelligence platforms.
• Identify and champion opportunities to strengthen data use culture across MSI Nigeria through training, advocacy, and modelling good practice.
• Contribute to the department’s strategic planning and represent the analytics function at departmental and SMT levels as required.
• Support the resource mobilisation team with accurate and timely analytics and data modelling to support all proposals and fund raising efforts.

Data Analysis & Reporting:

• Ensure the timely production of all scheduled programme and operational reports to internal and external audiences.
• Oversee the design and maintenance of analytical dashboards and data visualisations that support leadership decision-making.
• Ensure analytical outputs are clearly communicated, well-documented, and accessible to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Lead the analysis of complex, multi-source datasets to generate programme insights, including family planning metrics, service delivery trends, and outcome indicators.
• Respond to ad hoc analytical requests from the Country Director, SMT, and programme leads in a timely and accurate manner.

MIS & Programme Data Oversight:

• Ensure the integrity, completeness, and timeliness of data flowing from field data collection tools into reporting systems.
• Liaise with the M&E, MEL, and Research teams to align analytical outputs with monitoring frameworks and programme indicators.
• Identify data quality issues across MIS and reporting pipelines and coordinate with the Business Solutions Manager to address root causes.
• Support clinical governance and service delivery channels reporting requirements by ensuring relevant data pipelines are maintained and accurate.
• Oversee the management and continuous improvement of MIS reporting tools used by programme and clinical teams.

Data Governance & Quality:

• Establish and maintain analytical standards, naming conventions, and data dictionary documentation for all key datasets and reports.
• Review all major analytical outputs before external submission or senior presentation for accuracy, consistency, and interpretive integrity.
• Ensure compliance with MSI data protection policies and responsible data principles in all analytical work.
• Develop and maintain a version control and change management process for all production dashboards and reports.
• Support the Head of Department in identifying and reporting on organisational data risks.

Data Privacy Governance:

• Serve as MSI Nigeria's internal Data Privacy focal point, coordinating with information leads across all departments to ensure consistent adherence to data privacy standards.
• Maintain and regularly review MSI Nigeria's data privacy policies, ensuring alignment with the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) and any applicable MSI global standards.
• Monitor changes in Nigerian and international data privacy legislation and advise the Head of Department and SMT on implications for MSI Nigeria's operations.

Privacy Impact Assessments:

• Conduct Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) for all new and significantly changed data systems, research activities, and programme data collection processes.
• Document identified privacy risks with clear mitigation plans, owners, and review timelines, maintaining a live risk register for sign-off by the Head of Department.
• Ensure PIA outputs are factored into system design and procurement decisions, including the ERP implementation.

Training & Awareness:

• Design and deliver regular data privacy training for all MSI Nigeria staff, ensuring content is role-appropriate, engaging, and up to date with current legal requirements.
• Maintain a data privacy training register, tracking completion rates across all departments and escalating gaps to department heads and HR.
• Develop and circulate periodic data privacy awareness communications to reinforce a culture of responsible data handling across the organisation.

Incident & Compliance Oversight:

• Serve as the first point of escalation for data privacy incidents or concerns raised by staff or information leads in other departments.
• Document any data privacy incidents, assess their severity, and coordinate the organisational response in line with NDPR requirements and MSI policy.
• Produce a quarterly data privacy compliance summary for the Head of Department covering training status, PIAs completed, risks identified, and incidents handled.

Team Leadership & Capability Building:

• Directly line-manage the Senior Data Analyst and Analyst, setting objectives, reviewing performance, and building analytical capability.
• Design and deliver structured learning opportunities for staff across MSI Nigeria to improve their data literacy and use of analytical tools.
• Foster a team culture of rigour, curiosity, and continuous improvement in analytical standards.
• Manage workload planning across the analytics team, ensuring sustainable distribution of tasks and appropriate prioritisation.
• Identify capability gaps in the team and make recommendations for recruitment, training, or role adjustment.

Key Experience/Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Data Science, Epidemiology, Information Systems, Public Health, or a closely related quantitative field.
• A postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline is an advantage
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in data analysis, MIS, or business intelligence roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership or senior capacity.
• Demonstrated experience leading and managing an analytics or data team.
• Proven experience designing and delivering analytical outputs for strategic decision-making in a complex organisational context.
• Experience working with M&E or programme data in a global health, development, or humanitarian setting.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Power BI or equivalent business intelligence tools.
• Experience with DHIS2 or similar programme reporting platforms is a strong advantage

• Working knowledge of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) and its operational implications for an NGO context.
• Demonstrable understanding of privacy impact assessment methodology

Essential Skills & Competencies:

• Advanced analytical skills, including the ability to work with large, complex, and multi-source datasets.
• Strong proficiency in Power BI, including DAX, data modelling, and report design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex findings clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Strong understanding of M&E frameworks, programme indicators, and results reporting.
• Effective people management and coaching skills.
• Strong documentation discipline for risk registers, training records, and incident logs.
• Ability to design and deliver engaging compliance training for diverse, non-technical audiences.
• Meticulous attention to data quality, accuracy, and interpretive integrity.

Desirable:

• Familiarity with family planning programme indicators, including CYP, mCPR, and PPFP.
• Experience with field data collection platforms such as ODK, ONA, or CommCare.
• Knowledge of Power Query M, SQL, or Python for data transformation
• Experience with clinical or health systems data in an NGO or health facility context.

Application Closing Date
13th June, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Choose the location of the job as indicated on the form
• There are no relocation allowances available for this position.
• This role is open until filled, and we will be conducting Interviews on a rolling basis even while the advertisement is still active.
• MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices provides equal opportunity in employment and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex, colour, religion, age, marital status, or disability.
• MSI Nigeria is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and operates a zero tolerance approach to abuse, exploitation, and harassment on any kind.
• Children by Choice, not Chance.