Internationally Funded Development Project Monitoring and Evaluation Officer/Assistant in Jobs Nigeria 2014

Internationally Funded Development Project Monitoring and Evaluation Officer/Assistant in Jobs Nigeria 2014

 A New Internationally Funded Development Project seeks the following candidates for immediate placement in a new Abuja office to manage an innovative advocacy in child and family health project.

Position: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer/Assistant – Abuja

The M&E officer MUST be passionate about using data to track the performance of the project. S/he will operationalize the M&E framework of the project by developing the M&E plan;tracking and evaluating all activities and conducting baseline, midterm and end line evaluations; develop and review annual M&E budgets and work-plans for grantee and sub-grantees;develop and implement M&E reporting guidelines and systems designed to inform the direction of the project, including data quality and data use strategies;ensure the alignment of research and M&E activities with program goals, and contribute to the development of annual work-plans to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities; and train grantee and sub-grantee M&E staff on M&E guidelines, survey instruments, data collection tools, and other tools for M&E.The ideal candidate will have 3-4 years’ experience conducting M&E in an international environment or a donor funded public health or rights based program; knowledge of statistical software (such as SPSS, EPI-INFO);strong interest and competences in data collection and analysis;first degree in the Social Sciences having read statistics.A post-graduate Degree in Demography, Statistics, Sociology, Development Studies or Public Health will be an advantage.

Position: Finance Officer (1 position in Abuja, 1 position in Kano)
Under the direction of the Director Grants and Finance, the Finance Officer will make and manage budgets and be responsible for ensuring compliance with contractual requirements of donor funds.

S/he will assist the Director of Grants and Finance to ensure the accurate keeping of all books of accounts for projects; including checking account, supply registers and all accounting records; ensure compliance with the contractual financial requirements of the project; support accounting workflows of the office.The incumbent will also be required to prepare financial reports for projects, monitor and track obligations and expenditure as well as analyze burn rates; provide training and backstopping on the accounting systems.The ideal candidate will possess a first degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or in any other relevant field with 2-5 years of post National Youth Service experience, of which at least 1 year must be in similar role in a donor funded program.A candidate with professional accounting qualification; proven ability to management grants; excellent computer skills with specialty in spread sheet, accounting software or a relevant Post Graduate Degree will have an advantage.

Salaries and fees are competitive and staff will be engaged on the basis of 1 year renewable contracts over 3 years.

Other Vacancies: Suitably qualified candidates are also encouraged to apply for vacancies of Office Assistant and Program Assistant. The project also has openings for Public Health and Organizational Effectiveness consultants.

Application Procedure:
Qualified candidates should submit CV and 1 page letter of application to: recruit4advocacy@gmail.com before 30th November 2014 for first screening and 14th December for second screening.
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Only shortlist candidates will be contacted for an interview.