Monitoring & Evaluation Associate, Niger

Grade F

Job ID 13-7639

Location NG-Niger State

Number of Positions 1

Center/Office CLM - General

Posted Date 2014-07-09

Project/Program PRO-ACT

Application Due Date 2014-07-18

More information about this job

Overall Responsibilities
The key expectations of the M&E Associate’s position is to support the state M&E Specialist in ensuring that MSH’s M&E system within the state is well positioned to provide continuous technical guidance, capacity building, M&E systems strengthening to MSH supported facilities, Community Based Organizations, the Local and State M&E Teams.

Specific Responsibilities
Data Documentation
The M&E associate will be responsible in

Supporting the M&E Specialist by guiding the data clerks and facility M&E Officers review patient level information into the appropriate Patient Monitoring and Management (PMM) forms and registers on a routine basis.
Support the data clerks and facility M&E Officers in ensuring that the folder management systems within the facilities are well functional and able to ensure prompt retrieval of patient records

Data Collection & Reporting

The M&E associate will be responsible for data collection, gathering, collation and validation from the health facilities, CBOs and other supported organizations.
The M&E associate will support the M&E specialist in ensuring high data quality to meet our funder’s data demands and other national and international expectations.
The M&E associate will support the M&E specialist in managing the state database and ensuring that their state teams and country office readily have access to data for driving decision making.
The M&E associate will be responsible for data entry into the District Health Information System (DHIS 2.0) for both MSH and the USG DHIS 2.1 instance platform.
Any other Duties assigned by the M & E Specialist

Qualifications
Degree in Statistics, Epidemiology or related field with focus on monitoring and evaluation and/or Biostatistics.
At least 2 years hand-on-experience in monitoring and evaluation with very good analytical, presentation, communication and reporting skills.
Excellent inter-personal, multi-cultural and team building skills.
Strong computer skills particularly in spreadsheets, database and statistical applications.
Experience working in HIV/AIDS programs in Nigeria. Familiarity with PEPFAR reporting systems highly desirable, particularly for HIV Counseling and Testing, prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission, ART, palliative care, and OVC desirable
Good writing skills, oral and written communication skills and fluency in English


Background Information
Pro-ACT is an MSH-implemented project in Nigeria that aims at supporting State Ministries of Health and State Agencies for the Control of AIDS (SACA) to deliver comprehensive HIV/AIDS/TB services—including providing antiretroviral therapy for the hundreds of thousands of people in need in Nigeria. The project through the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) funding is set to achieve its goals of a strengthened health system for improved service delivery by the year 2014.

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