JOB TITLE: M & E Volunteer, Sexual Reproductive Maternal Newborn and Child Health Program
JOB LOCATION: Lagos
JOB DETAILS:
Responsibilities
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- Supervise and coordinate data collection at health facilities and in local communities;
- Collate routine health facility and program data, and assess their quality and suitability for analysis;
- Execute interventions to strengthen data completeness and timeliness in health facilities;
- Coordinate and lead training, mentoring, and coaching of data collectors;
- Support Primary Healthcare Board and local governments to strengthen community based health information systems and vital community reporting registration systems;
- Review Monitoring and Evaluation data regularly with state program team to ensure that the program is accomplishing its objectives and corrective actions are taken if required;
- Develop dissemination materials, including reports, presentations, briefs and visualizations;
- Support State Program Lead in donor reporting activities including consolidation of relevant data and evidence of impact;
- Any other task as requested by the Program Director.
Qualifications
- Proactive, resourceful individuals with strong analytical and communication skills are required for this role. Specific requirements include:
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of professional experience or Master’s degree with 1 year of relevant experience. Master’s degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, information management, economics or relevant subject matter strongly preferred;
- Experience with public health research, implementation science, and the relevant evaluation models and methods, particularly in establishing baseline figures and assessing post-intervention changes and targets;
- Demonstrable experience supervising and coordinating data collection at health facilities;
- Experience with health information management systems and relevant platforms;
- Knowledge of program monitoring and evaluation methods (qualitative and quantitative), including experience developing monitoring and evaluation plans, tools and summary forms;
- Ability to work independently and to develop and execute plans to achieve specified impact with limited guidance and oversight, including an ability to multi-task and be effective in high-pressure situations;
- Must have good understanding of M&E challenges and limitations in low-resource settings, particularly for hard-to-measure and sensitive public health issues;
- Excellent quantitative, problem solving, analytical and statistical analysis skills (including strong Microsoft Excel skills);
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the capacity to synthesize monitoring and evaluation data into an effective presentation of results to help guide recommendations on performance improvement;
- Exceptional diplomatic, strategic-thinking, and interpersonal skills, and an ability to build durable relationships.
Plusses:
- Experience working in SRMNCH programs or health delivery systems in Nigeria;
- Experience executing M&E systems for public health programs in Lagos state;
- Familiarity with major population-based surveys in Nigeria (i.e. NDHS, MICS), their sampling methods, and their dataset structures;
- Familiarity with analyzing large administrative data sets in Nigeria (i.e. DHIS-2);
- Experience conducting secondary analyses of large surveys;
- Experience in the design, deployment, and implementation of health facility surveys and community-based focus groups discussions/key informant interviews.
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