Latest Job Opportunity at SHI

Company Description

Sustainable Healthcare International (SHI) Foundation has been a partner with the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) for over five years sharing in its vision for a malaria-free Nigeria and its goal to reduce the malaria burden to pre-elimination levels and bringing malaria-related mortality to zero. SHI is currently a Sub-Recipient to the Global Fund Malaria New Funding Model for core Programme implementation and Social Mobilization activities in the High Burden (HB) Northern States of Nigeria.


Job Title: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer (M&E)

Job Description

• The State M&E Officer will support the M&E Manager in all data collection, analysis and learning activities to help ensure accountability and efficiency from start to finish for the NFM project.
• Provide leadership to the state office and field level M&E program and provide overall guidance on program/project monitoring and evaluation;
• Manage the state offices reporting cycle to ensure high quality and complete datasets are sent to the national office on a periodic basis, or when required.
• Work with local partners to develop their project monitoring and evaluation plans and support the correct implementation and use of routine data collection tools.
• Conduct monthly routine monitoring visits to project sites and provide supportive supervision.
• On a monthly basis, ensure that high quality analyzed facility-level data is disseminated to relevant staff at facilities and decision-makers. Ensure that data is used to highlight important programmatic gaps and coordinate with facility management and other departments in addressing these gaps;
• Coordinate regular data quality assessments, undertaken in a participatory manner, with facility staff and ensure the completeness, consistency and validity of routine data.
• Ensure that the quality of program/project Monitoring and Enhanced Evaluation in the sites is of international standard and quality by supporting the development and implementation of appropriate mechanisms to ensure quality;
• Provide direct technical assistance and capacity building in the design and implementation of the program/project Monitoring and Enhanced Evaluation components of the activities in the communities served;
• Build capacity of local partners in project monitoring and with program staff and local partners, use program/project monitoring data to modify existing programs and design new programs;
• Provide technical support in evaluation research (including sampling strategies, analysis and presentation of data) to the local research groups working on the grant;
• Participate in project assessments, evaluations and design teams;
• Document lessons learned and best practices in monitoring and evaluation, according to standard guidelines;
• Represent SHI and makes presentations at professional meetings and conferences related to Monitoring and Evaluation research;
• Remain informed of current issues regarding Monitoring and Evaluation of programs in the malaria field by review of current literature; is alert to any implication of such research for project and program activities;
• Help ensure that the quality of program/project activities adheres to SOPs by supporting the development and implementation of appropriate mechanisms to ensure quality of all Global Health program interventions;
• Provide technical assistance to M&E officers of SMEP, LGA, and MFPs in integrating malaria data into the national DHIS 2 platform.
• Coordinate the implementation of State-based activities on malaria prevention including LLIN distribution, use and monitoring;
• Provide support for malaria case management diagnosis and treatment within the state including support for LMIS;
• Provide technical support to states to improve intermittent preventive therapy for pregnant women;
• Provide technical support for capacity building on malaria technical areas including training of personnel at the state ministry of health and other facilities;
• Provide technical expertise at the state level to the SMEP as it relates to all issues on capacity building for the Management of malaria control;

Job Qualification
MBA, MSc, MA, PhD, Fellowship

Job Experience
5 years

Job Location
Sokoto

Job Category
NGO, Non-Profit

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should attached a one (1) page suitability statement before their CV's and send to recruitment@shinigeria.org All documents should not exceed 4 pages and CV should be in MSword format.