Strategic Information Advisor atJhpiego

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Job Title: Strategic Information Advisor atJhpiego
Organisation: Jhpiego
Location: Abuja
Min Work Experience: 7 year(s)
Qualification: Msc
Industry: NGO/ Community Service
Course: RELATED DISCIPLINE

Jhpiego, an Affiliate of Johns Hopkins University is a global leader in improving healthcare services for women and their families.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Strategic Information Advisor

Location: Abuja
Career Category: Monitoring and Evaluation
Theme: HIV/Aids

Overview

  • The STAR program is a newly-awarded 18-month, UNITAID-funded global HIV program that supports countries to distribute HIV self-tests effectively, ethically and efficiently through provision of strategic technical assistance.
  • In Nigeria, STAR will support the Government of Nigeria to develop and adapt policy guidelines for the adoption of HIV self-testing and support for the integration of HIV self-testing within the existing health care systems.
  • The Strategic Information (SI) Advisor for STAR will provide technical leadership and guidance in planning and implementing appropriate SI/M&E systems, activities and technical assistance for STAR/Nigeria.

Responsibilities
Leadership:

  • Provide leadership and direction on SI/M&E activities to ensure technical and financial integrity to achieve STAR goals, objectives and targets
  • Lead development of project monitoring framework, indicators and tools related to data management, collection, aggregation and data quality assessment and QA/QI to guide state level activities
  • Lead the process of establishing an instance of DHIS2 that will warehouse STAR community and facility-level data
  • Oversee real-time data use including monthly and quarterly data review meetings; implement remediation efforts that address identified gaps and challenges for project overall and at state level
  • Oversee the development of data analytics to monitor cascades of care, programmatic pivoting, and key and priority populations. Analyze progress to target continuously to ensure activities are on track
  • Support in the development of SI/M&E frameworks for different distribution models based on tools developed under STAR
  • Strengthen the use of data at state, facility, and community level for program monitoring and improvement
  • Support the provision of training, supervision and mentorship to strengthen for M&E/SI and data quality improvement
  • Support the process of validation and triangulation of data between multiple data sources

Management:

  • Oversee timely, accurate and appropriate reporting of project activities and results to UNITAID, including narrative progress reports and monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual quantitative results.
  • Support and guide capacity building through trainings, mentorship and supervision on M&E/SI activities
  • Promote and support knowledge management and sharing efforts
  • Trouble shoot issues that arise and provide immediate solutions

Qualifications
Education:

  • Master’s degree in epidemiology, demography, public health, or related health, medical, or social science discipline; doctoral-level degree preferred.

Required Qualifications:

  • 7 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation of large-scale international HIV projects with proven capacity in working with a diverse team of technical and support staff
  • Demonstrated experience working with UNITAID programs and strong familiarity with UNITAID reporting requirements preferred.
  • Experience in HIV care and treatment and prevention programs
  • Familiarity with Nigeria’s health management information system and other national M&E systems
  • Demonstrated experience in facilitating the dissemination and use of data for decision-making.
  • Demonstrated experience in data quality assurance and implementation plans to improve data quality
  • Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and coordination
  • Strong data management and analysis skills and advanced knowledge of PowerBI, DHIS2, and electronic medical records
  • Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages, including at least two of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata
  • Excellent writing and communications skills, including demonstrated technical writing skills for publication
  • Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams
  • Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
  • Ability to travel frequently to project implementation states

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application Letter and CV as One Single Word document to: ng-recruitment@jhpiego.org using the "Position" as the subject of the email and application.

Note

  • Applications should be sent not later than Thursday 4th June 2020. Candidates that do not comply with the application instruction will be disqualified.
  • Only shortlisted candidates will receive an invitation for an interview.
  • Please note that any successful candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.
  • JHU is an Equal Opportunity Employer


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