Jhpiego Job in Nigeria for a Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor, April 2015

Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University. For 40 years and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families.


Jhpiego works with health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality health care for their people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries care for themselves by training competent health care workers, strengthening health systems and improving delivery of care.

We are recruiting to fill the vacant position of:

Job Title: Sr. Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor

Job ID: 2015-2179
Location: Nigeria

Job Description

• Sr. Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor needed to lead monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities for a new USAID-funded project in Nigeria which will contribute to state-level reduction in under-five child and maternal mortality, and to increased capacity of health systems (public and private) to sustainably support access to primary health care.
• Advisor will also be responsible for documenting and disseminating program successes and challenges to USAID, as well as designing and conducting operations research.
• This position is contingent upon an award from USAID.
• Advisor will design, implement and supervise project M&E activities, frameworks, plans and indicators to capture project performance results and provide effective, accurate and timely monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all project activities.

• Oversee the development and implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) to capture project performance and results, including routine service delivery data reporting, baseline and endline assessments if needed, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations
• Work with Technical Advisors to ensure that program activities are implemented and directed to meeting desired goal and objectives
• Lead results reporting to USAID by providing written documentation on M&E activities and indicator results for progress and annual reports, as appropriate.
• Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with other USAID projects and represent M&E activities in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations
• Ensure relevant data is entered into J-RISE, Jhpiego’s organization-wide performance management system designed to capture, analyze, and disseminate project data
• Plan and implement M&E related capacity-building activities for relevant stakeholders in order to improve state-wide M&E related practices
• Promote and support the dissemination of project information among the project team
• Ensure that resources for project implementation are available
• Work with project and financial staff to prepare and track progress of project and activity budgets
• Supervise a team of M&E professionals
• Provide leadership and direction on M&E to ensure the project’s technical and financial integrity to achieve project goals and corresponding objectives and targets
• Ensure high-quality implementation, consistent with Nigeria’s national health guidelines, protocols, information and reporting systems
• Conduct targeted evaluations and operations research, including design, data collection, management and analysis
• Develop and oversee data flow pattern for the project, to ensure timely data collection and reporting
• Lead efforts to monitor and evaluate project interventions, document results and provide feedback to stakeholders to guide decision-making
• Lead efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and recordkeeping. Utilize the training data collected to inform strategic decision-making and project planning
• Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures, including routine data quality audits
• Coordinate all M&E capacity-building activities with project staff, implementing partners and facility staff

• Advanced degree in public health, demography, statistics, social sciences or related field
• 7 years senior iM&E experience in the international health sector
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, operations research, health management information systems, reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
• Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Access
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Excellent facilitation, oral and written communications skills
• Ability to travel up to 30 % nationally and internationally
• Nigerian nationals strongly encouraged to apply
• Demonstrated expertise working in a leadership capacity with international donors, senior government officials and policymakers
• Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts in both the public and NGO sectors
• M&E experience in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health
• Familiarity with Nigeria’s health management information system and other national M&E systems including the use of DHIS2
• Experience and understanding of USAID frameworks and eporting systems
• Excellent writing and communications skills, including demonstrated technical writing skills for publication
• Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams