Grade : G
Job ID : 13-7125
Location: NG-Niger State
# of Positions : 3
Center/Office : CLM - General
Project/Program : PRO-ACT
Application Due Date : 2013-12-13
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
LMS/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.
