Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor (Regional) At Chemonics

SCOPE OF WORK

Position Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor (Regional)

Location: Lagos

Background: The overall goal of GHSC-PSM is to procure and provide health commodities for all USAID health programs, including but not limited to, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Family Planning, and Maternal & Child Health, as well as provide systems strengthening technical assistance to improve supply chain management and commodity security in Nigeria.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Support data management processes at state level and ensure that standard processes are followed, identify gaps and implement corrective actions in coordination with other state staff and stakeholders
Support and build the capacity at state level on monitoring and evaluation, supportive visits, data analysis and presentation.
Participate in the review of Nigeria Health LMIS data and outputs to assess quality of data entry process
Support state performance review meetings with trend and root cause analysis to facilitate performance improvement initiatives
Participate in state level assessment as required, and ensure all preparatory activities and means of verification are available
Conduct health facility data quality assessment as required
Support periodic program KPI analysis at national level and other data request by stakeholders
Coordinate and support update of state health facility report tracker
Participate in internal data quality checks and analysis to support program reporting, and follow up on corrective actions
Support state specific Last Mile Distribution monitoring with deployment of SurveyCTO data capture tool and data analysis
Keep track of KPIs for states in the region and advise Regional Director and state teams on a bi-monthly / quarterly basis.
Other duties as assigned by the administrative and technical supervisors

Job Qualifications

· Minimum of a Bachelor’s in health sciences, development, statistics or related field and at least 5 years of work experience in international public health programs. 4 of which should be focused on Monitoring and Evaluation.
· Familiarity with the principles and current approaches to M&E in public health programs
· Experience in the design and implement systems necessary to collect, maintain, and analyze program data. And possess strong data interpretation, manipulation, and quality assurance skills. With good knowledge of database management, and retrieval methods. highly desired
· Possess strong data analysis, interpretation, manipulation and data quality assurance
skills. With good knowledge of database management, and retrieval methods.
· Ability to synthesize program data into effective presentation of results to help guide
recommendations on performance improvement. highly desired
· Must have experience conducting program monitoring visits, utilizing checklists and other M&E national tools, including the ability to develop M&E tools as needed.
· Knowledge of evaluation methodologies (e.g., qualitative / quantitative), design, data collection and analysis methodologies; experience with innovative and electronic, real-time monitoring methods and applications such as Magpi, Survey-CTO, Kobo or similar highly desired
· Computer literacy with demonstrated use of word processing, database and presentation software (MS-Word, MS-Excel, Power Point, Power BI). Experience with database development and management in Ms-Access or Python/R a plus. Experience using mapping (e.g., Arc-GIS, Health Mapper, etc.), and statistical analysis software (SPSS, STATA, SAS or similar) also a plus
· Ability to contribute to capacity-building efforts and work with colleagues in diverse cultures
· Ability to work independently and to manage activities daily with minimal supervision
Ability to work effectively and harmoniously with other staff, USAID, consultants, MOH, and international organizations
· Excellent organizational and time management skills and strong attention to detail
· Excellent writing and communications skills in English required