Jhpiego Nigeria | Recruitment 

Jhpiego Nigeria | Recruitment

Jhpiego, an Affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, is a global leader in improving healthcare services for women and their families.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director

Job ID: 2024-6246
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time
Category: International Positions
Employment Status: Contingent Upon Award

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and leadership on MEL to ensure the project achieves its goals and corresponding objectives and targets.
• Oversee the development and implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) to efficiently track, use and disseminate performance indicators and results over life of the project, including routine service delivery data reporting, baseline and end line assessments, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations.
• Develop and oversee implementation of robust context-appropriate systems for data collection, quality assurance, analysis and reporting on activity outputs/outcomes and program quality.
• Lead results reporting to USAID, providing written documentation on M&E activities and indicator results for progress and annual reports, and required reporting.
• Ensure alignment of project systems and approaches with Nigerian national monitoring and evaluation guidelines, protocols, information and reporting systems.
• Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with monitoring, evaluation and learning counterparts in other USAID projects national institutions, and key stakeholders, leading initiatives to learn from project data and adapt intervention strategies as appropriate.
• Lead efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and recordkeeping.
• Use data to contribute towards strategic decision-making, project planning with project leadership and instill a culture of data use for decision making across the project.
• Support project leadership to champion holistic approaches to collaboration, learning and adapting (CLA), including design and implementation of an action-oriented project research and learning agenda, routine analysis of available health sector data sources, and application of best practices in knowledge management
• Oversee and/or conduct targeted assessment, evaluations and operations research, ensuring compliance with Johns Hopkins University institutional and local review board policies
• Oversee the collection, management, analysis and use of project data, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into project implementation to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes.
• Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures including routine data quality audits and that these are routinely carried out during the project lifecycle
• Supervise and mentor a team of M&E professionals, ensuring high-quality implementation of all monitoring, evaluation and learning activities, manage performance and provide timely feedback.
• Train and mentor project staff and implementing partners in monitoring and evaluation methods, tools, and systems.
• Support local partners tailored capacity strengthening plans as they relate to M&E, and support systems for joint assessments, mentoring and monitoring improvements and ensure they can deliver on project scope.
• Represent M&E activities in relevant technical advisory/working groups and professional forums representing Jhpiego and the project.
• Collaborate with all local stakeholders and implementing partners, especially the GON, the State MoHs, State primary health care development agencies and USAID to ensure all activities conform to the award requirements.
• Maintain excellent relationships with USAID and in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses.
• Promote and support the dissemination of project information among the project team, and author/co-author abstracts, presentations, and articles for journals and conferences.
• Ensure relevant data is entered into Jhpiego’s organization-wide performance management system designed to capture, analyze, and disseminate project data
• Ensure project compliance with USAID monitoring, evaluation, research and open data policies.
• Work with project and financial staff to prepare and track progress of project and activity budgets.
• Ensure protection of participant data and confidentiality during all monitoring, evaluation and research implementation and dissemination processes
• Support the designated Internal Review Board (IRB) focal point in-country including maintaining current certification from 1) CITI human subjects ethics course and 2) CITI Good Clinical Practices (GCP) course.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Public Health, Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 9 years of experience on international health projects, including substantial work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development projects (approximately $5 -10M per year).
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methodologies, implementation research approaches, health management information systems, data visualization and reporting.
• Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts in both the public, NGO and private sectors
• M&E experience in R
• Working knowledge of Nigeria, its health management information system, other national M&E and reporting systems.
• Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using DHIS2 and one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: [SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Excel] Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Familiarity with USAID’s administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems
• Proven track record managing a project team composed of several technical experts and fostering teamwork.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills and the ability to think and plan strategically.
• Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector
• Excellent communication skills and strong inter-personal and supervisory skills, including the demonstrated ability to lead, mentor and coach technical staff.
• Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, organizational, team-building, and representational skills.
• Experience working with sub-/grantees, local and international and knowledge of capacity development approaches for locally-led development
• Expertise in research to practice—identifying and adapting best practices to specific project contexts.
• Ability to travel nationally to project sites.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Technical Director

Job ID: 2024-6244
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time
Category: International Positions
Employment Status: Contingent Upon Award

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and technical leadership to project implementation and activities.
• Establish and implement a system to ensure a robust approach to all technical interventions in project activities.
• Lead on the design of tailored capacity strengthening plans for local partners and put in place systems for joint assessments, mentoring and monitoring improvements and ensure they can deliver on project scope.
• Provide technical assistance to strengthen quality of care in PHC settings for RMNCH interventions and collaborate with key stakeholders on innovative solutions to address improvement bottlenecks and challenges.
• Work with health care providers, local authorities, community members and project team members to identify RMNCH PHC service delivery issues that impede access to care and uptake of services.
• Identify training needs for clinical and community healthcare providers and assist in the design and implementation of measures to address those needs.
• Provide technical leadership to the development the project strategic plan, work plan, and project monitoring, in close collaboration with USAID, Government of Nigeria (GON), partners and stakeholders to ensure timely implementation and compliance to the requirements and regulations of the award.
• Work closely with the Chief of Party on setting project priorities and responding to requests for support from local government and counterparts.
• Work with the M&E team to design and implement a plan to track project data and results to inform project adjustments and course corrections.
• Collaborate with all local stakeholders and implementing partners, especially the GON and USAID to ensure all activities conform to the award requirements.
• Maintain excellent relationships with USAID and in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses
• Document successes, lessons learned and challenges in implementation as well as reports of project activities and results to the project and donor, including required reporting.
• Document and maintain an inventory of successful tools and approaches and author/co-author abstracts, presentations, and articles for journals and conferences.
• Supervise and mentor technical and program staff and manage performance and provide timely feedback.
• Actively participate in relevant technical advisory/working groups and professional forums representing Jhpiego.
• Develop and/or update evidence-based training materials, standards, job aids, and curricula, supervisory systems needed for implementation of the Project to meet the needs of USAID and State Governments of Nigeria.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced Degree in Medicine, Nursing, Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Public Health or a related field
• Minimum 9 years of experience in a mid-to-senior management experience with large, multi-partner, multi-sub-grantee, multi-year international health sector development projects (with values of approximately $5 -10M per year) that have implemented successful activities in maternal, newborn and child health, or similar areas.
• Skilled in at least two or more of the following technical areas: PHC, quality of care, reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, health systems
• Experience working with sub-/grantees, local and international and knowledge of capacity development approaches for locally led development.
• Established relationship with the Government of Nigeria, demonstrating a strong understanding of structure, priorities, and policies.
• Familiarity with USAID’s administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems.
• Proven track record managing a project team composed of several technical experts and fostering teamwork.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills and the ability to think and plan strategically.
• Excellent communication skills and strong inter-personal and supervisory skills, including the demonstrated ability to lead, mentor and coach technical staff.
• Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector.
• Expertise in research to practice—identifying and adapting best practices to specific project contexts
• Excellent verbal, written interpersonal and presentation skills in English.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to travel nationally to project sites and internationally.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Quality of Care Advisor

Job ID: 2024-6245
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time
Category: International Positions
Employment Status: Contingent Upon Award

Overview

• Jhpiego seeks a Quality of Care (QoC) Advisor to provide technical leadership to improve quality of clinical care at Primary health care (PHC) levels to ensure the strategic, programmatic, technical integrity for an upcoming USAID integrated reproductive maternal, newborn and child health program.
• The project aims to reduce maternal, newborn, child mortality and morbidity and Strengthen Quality of Care at Primary Health Care levels in (as yet) to be determined States in Nigeria.
• The QoC Advisor will operate under the leadership of the technical director and with Jhpiego’s senior management team will ensure the technical and methodological soundness to ensure high-quality, timely implementation of technical aspects related to quality improvement.
• This will involve working closely with the MOH and state governments, USAID Nigeria, implementing partners, health care facilities and other stakeholders.
• The project is expected to operate over a five-year period.
• This position is contingent upon award from USAID. Nigerian nationals are strongly encouraged to apply

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise throughout the project to ensure technical quality of RMNCH activities and ensure integration with interventions in facilities at all PHC levels.
• Provide and facilitate mentoring and capacity strengthening at PHC facility level to health care workers/providers to meet nationally defined quality standards.
• Collaborate with healthcare providers, local authorities, community members and project team members to identify PHC service delivery issues that impede reaching quality standards, that in turn affect uptake of services; collaboratively propose innovative solutions to address key bottlenecks and challenges to attain strengthened quality of care at all PHC levels.
• Provide technical assistance to conduct health facility assessments and mapping, stakeholder dialogues, strengthening referral systems, and facility supportive supervision.
• Collaborate with all local stakeholders, the MOH, community leaders and other partners such as networks of health facilities (including where appropriate private sector providers), to ensure project activities are responsive to serve users and are in line with national priorities.
• Identify training needs for healthcare providers and assist in the design and implementation of measures to address those needs.
• Develop and/or update evidence-based training materials, standards, job aids, and curricula, supervisory systems needed for implementation of the Project to meet the needs of USAID and State Governments of Nigeria.
• Support the design of tailored capacity strengthening plans for local partners and implement systems for joint assessments, mentoring and monitoring improvements.
• Provide technical oversight to sub-partners as needed and ensure they can deliver on project scope.
• Work closely with the Technical Director and other technical team members on setting project priorities and aligned responses to requests for support from local government.
• Provide technical inputs to the development of work plans, project monitoring including routine reporting and other reporting requirements as requested, to ensure timely implementation and compliance to the requirements and regulations of the award.
• Work with M&E staff to implement a plan to track data and use data to inform project adjustments or course corrections in implementation.
• Supervise and mentor technical and program staff direct reports, manage performance and provide timely feedback.
• Collaborate with all local stakeholders and implementing partners, especially the Government of Nigeria and other US and international implementing partners, to ensure all activities conform to the requirements and regulations.
• Maintain excellent relationships with USAID, Government of Nigeria, in-country stakeholders.
• Actively participate in relevant technical advisory/working groups and professional forums representing Jhpiego.
• Document successes, lessons learned and implementation challenges, and author/co-author abstracts, presentations, and articles for journals and conferences.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced Degree in Nursing, Health Sciences, Public Health, or a related field.
• At least 8 years’ experience in quality improvement in at least one of these areas: Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, integrated health programming, health systems strengthening, PHC.
• Experience working with and capacitating local sub-grantees, and knowledge of capacity development approaches for locally led development.
• Experience working with the Government of Nigeria, demonstrating a strong understanding of structure, priorities, and policies.
• Familiarity with USAID’s administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems.
• Excellent communication skills and strong interpersonal and supervisory skills, including the demonstrated ability to lead, mentor and coach technical staff.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills and the ability to think and plan strategically.
• Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector
• Expertise in research to practice—identifying and adapting best practices to specific project contexts
• Excellent verbal, written interpersonal and presentation skills in English.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to travel nationally to project sites.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant

Job ID: 2024-6293
Location: Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi
Category: International Positions
Employment Status: Full Time

Job Summary

• The M & E Assistant will work to support data collection, verification and reporting for the AMPLI-PPHI project in Kebbi State.
• The M & E Assistant will work closely with the Data Analyst and State Program Officer in ensuring timely and accurate assessment, monitoring and research data management, and reporting, contributing to development of paper-based and/or mobile data collection tools, and adherence to standard operating procedures, including routine data quality assessments.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with relevant stakeholders at health facility, LGA and State levels to ensure timely reporting of AMPLI-PPHI indicators.
• Liaise with Community volunteers to ensure timely reporting of community level data to project database.
• Data collection, cleaning, validation and triangulation.
• Support training, supervision, mentorship and graphing of data to strengthen data quality at supported sites.
• Strengthen the use of data at state, facility, and community level for decision making
• Responsible for entry of relevant data into project databases (DHIS2) and JADE, Jhpiego’s organization-wide performance management system, designed to capture, analyze, and disseminate project data
• Contribute to development of data collection tools
• Support key stakeholders to utilize data for decision making.
• Support program team in MER
• Assist in management and quality assurance of implementation research and routine service data.

Required Qualifications

• A degree in Statistics, Public Health, Information Technology, Social Sciences or other related discipline.
• 3-4 years experience with at least 2 years’ experience in RMNCAH programming and use of data for decision-making
• Experience and familiarity with national health management information system and/or DHIS2.
• Good computer skills, especially working knowledge of MS word, Power point presentation and MS Excel. Knowledge and skill for use of scientific package for social science or any other software for data analysis will be an advantage
• Good facilitation and training skills
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Implementation research data collection and/or analysis experience.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online