Senior Technical Officer, Monitoring and Evaluation - Adamawa Job at FHI 360 - Nigeria

Started by Jobrib, Sep 06, 2013, 01:31 PM

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Job Title: Senior Technical Officer, Monitoring and Evaluation

Employer: FHI 360 – Nigeria

Sector: Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO)

Location: Adamawa, Nigeria

Req ID: 4114  

Basic Function: The Senior Technical Officer (M&E), under the supervision of the State Program Manager, and with technical oversight from the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation, is responsible for the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation for the state office.  S/he will work with others in the state office and local implementing partners to ensure that state monitoring and evaluation activities are appropriate and meet the donor and project's M&E needs.

Duties and responsibilities:

1.   Provide leadership to the state office and field level M&E program and provide overall guidance on program/project monitoring and evaluation and on US Government and Government of Nigeria reporting requirements.  Provide support to the sites in the state, including interacting with site Program Managers, Implementing Agencies and local research groups on needs and ensuring that locally employed Monitoring and Evaluation staff, consultants and FHI partners understand and can support these requirements.

2.   Manage the state office's reporting cycle to ensure high quality and complete datasets are sent to the country office on a periodic basis, or when required.

3.   Work with local partners to develop their project monitoring and evaluation plans and support the correct implementation and use of routine data collection tools.

4.   Conduct monthly routine monitoring visits to project sites and provide supportive supervision.

5.   On a monthly basis, ensure that high quality analyzed facility-level data is disseminated to relevant staff at facilities and decision-makers. Ensure that data is used to highlight important programmatic gaps and coordinate with facility management and other departments in addressing these gaps.

6.   Coordinate regular data quality assessments, undertaken in a participatory manner, with facility staff and ensure the completeness, consistency and validity of routine data.

Qualifications and Requirements:

1.   MB.BS/MD/PHD or similar degree with 3 to 5 years relevant experience in project-level or state/national-level monitoring and evaluation system implementation for Global Health Initiatives.

2.   Or MPH or MS/MA in relevant degree with 5 to 7 years relevant experience in project-level or state/national-level monitoring and evaluation system implementation for Global Health Initiatives.

3.   Or BS/BA in statistics, pharmacy, microbiology, monitoring and evaluation or  in relevant degree with 7 to 9 years relevant experience in project-level or state/national-level monitoring and evaluation system implementation for Global Health Initiatives.

4.   Familiarity with Nigerian public sector health systems and NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable.

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