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Pathfinder International is a global leader in sexual and
reproductive health. We place reproductive health care at the
center of all that we do – believing that it is not only a
fundamental human right, but is critical for expanding life
opportunities for women, families, communities, and nations, and
paving
the way for transformations in
environmental stewardship, decreases in population pressures, and
innovations in poverty reduction. Pathfinder provides women, men,
and adolescents with a range of quality health services – from
contraception and maternal care to HIV prevention and AIDS care
and treatment.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Job Ref: 2015-26
Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full-time
Program Overview
Pathfinder International through the Evidence to Action for
Strengthened Family Planning and Reproductive Health services
for women and girls (E2A) project in partnership with the
Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative (SMGL) will implement an
innovative integrated Maternal Newborn Health project in Cross
River State, Nigeria building on the USAID Nigeria funded
integrated PMTCT project.
The project model consists of a suite of evidence-based MNH
interventions tailored to the epidemiologic realities of the
selected state/LGA and intends to address the three delays to
women’s access to life-saving care, with a special focus on the
time of labor, delivery and the first 48 hour postpartum.
Position Purpose
- The Monitoring, Evaluation Officer will be responsible for
developing the capacity of partners and State team members to
collect, analyze report and use information on project using
the organizational Management Information System (MIS).
- The M & E officer will assist in the implementation of
monitoring and evaluation of project activities and knowledge
management across the State.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinating and assisting project team in the development,
management and implementing of monitoring and evaluation
plan(s) for the project;
- Summarize, analyze and interpret data collected from
partners, project and field offices for monitoring project
activities;
- Assist the state program managers to prepare quarterly,
annual and semi – annual, plans and reports to donor and stake
holders in accordance with specified timelines;
- Promotes information and knowledge sharing across project
sites and partners;
- Travels extensively across all project sites in the State
to fulfil responsibilities;
- Develop and maintain MIS system to capture analyze and
report on the project indicators;
- Train team members, health staff and partners at all levels
in completion, analysis, reporting and utilization of
information collected for operational and strategic needs of
the project;
- Monitor the implementation of project specific M&E
activities ensuring compliance with set standards, checking and
correcting the quality of systems and data, and providing
on-the- job problem-solving and training to correct the quality
performance gaps;
- Train and monitor field coordinators in the use of data for
management decision-making; enable result based management;
- Perform other duties as required by the SPM and the SA
(MERL).
Basic Requirements
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Demography, Statistics, Social
Sciences, Public Health, Health Information Management or
related field.
- Competency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and ACCESS,
and a statistical software package (SPSS, EPI-INFO, STATA, SAS
or similar).
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills and
ability to work with various constituencies’ especially
relevant government partners, USAID/PEPFAR, and other
implementing partners.
- Good oral and /written communication skills and ability to
effectively communicate technical material to both expert and
lay audiences.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of progressively responsible
experience designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluation
tasks for health and/or development projects.
- Familiarity with USAID/international indicators and
standard measurement tools in the areas of reproductive
health/family planning, maternal and neonatal health and other
relevant technical areas.
- Fluency in both written and spoken English in addition to
one local language required.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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