Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Advisor at Jhpiego

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction on M&E activities to ensure technical and financial integrity in achieving the project’s goals, objectives, and targets.
• Support the development of project monitoring frameworks, indicators, and tools related to data management, collection, aggregation, data quality assessment, and QA/QI to guide state-level activities.
• Oversee real-time data use, including facilitating monthly and quarterly data review meetings.
• Implement remediation efforts to address identified gaps and challenges for the project at both national and state levels.
• Strengthen the use of data at all project levels for program monitoring and improvement.
• Facilitate trainings and workshops related to data analysis, dissemination, and the use of information.
• Support and guide capacity building for M&E/SI activities through training, mentorship, and supervision.
• Ensure compliance with all donor reporting requirements.
• Support program reporting to donors and the Government of Nigeria (GON).
• Provide technical leadership to M&E Officers (MEO) on all M&E-related issues.
• Initiate and maintain strong ties with stakeholders, including the Ministry of Health (MOH), Local Government Areas (LGAs), and health facility leadership.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Public Health, Statistics, Epidemiology, Geography, or other related fields with ten (10) years of experience in monitoring and evaluation in international development programs.
• Five (5) years practical or demonstrable experience in monitoring and evaluation or data management.
• Demonstrated ability to perform complex data analytics using Microsoft Excel, STATA, Tableau, PowerBI, or other analytic software.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Nigerian health and social service information systems and M&E processes related to data collection for performance-based reporting and data use.
• Demonstrated written, presentation, communication, and organizational skills in English.
• Ability to travel within Nigeria.
• Demonstrated ability to perform robust data extraction from internal and external information systems.
• Demonstrated ability to portray complex data sets in easy-to-understand formats, including visualizations.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Nigerian health and social service information systems and M&E processes related to data collection for performance-based reporting and data use.
• Familiarity with the Nigerian public health sector and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is highly desirable.