Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning [MEL] Specialist at Management Sciences For Health - MSH

Job ID: 13-10573
Location: Nigeria-Abuja
Group/Office: PDG (Program Delivery Group)
Dept/Unit: PDGGEN - Program Delivery Group
Project/Program: A000 - None Specified
Reports To: Director, MEL/HIS
Grade: J

Overview

• The MEL Specialist is to support the strengthening of the national Health Information System.
• This includes but not limited to the strengthening of M&E coordination platforms, supporting the electronic reporting, improving the data use culture, data quality management and supportive supervision across the ATM landscape, and supporting interventions around strengthening the national DHIS2 instance.

Specific Responsibilities

• Support project stakeholder management efforts
• Represent the project within the M&E/HMIS community.
• Support the development of concept notes, guidance documents, manuals etc
• Support the documentation and dissemination of best practices.
• Support the development and communication of products including fact sheets, success stories, technical briefs, reports, publications and more.
• Support the implementation of grant interventions and activities including supporting national DHIS2 instance, improving e-reporting approaches, supporting scale up of EMR, supporting systems interoperability initiatives, improving reporting rates, data quality and data use at all levels of the national data flow pipelines for ATM services. Support the triangulation of PSM, LMIS and routine service data; and the development /review of data collection as applicable.
• Support the design, development and deployment of project data use products including interactive data use products.
• Support the design and or upgrade of the project grant management and tracking tools.
• Support the design and or upgrade of the grant comprehensive data management system.
• Link and analyze resource inputs, outputs and outcomes and report on project effectiveness and efficiency.
• Supporting the preparation and submission of donor narrative and data reports.

Qualifications and Experience

• A degree in Information Science, Data Science, Public Health, Statistics, Health Informatics or any field. Post graduate qualification desirable.
•  At least 6 years’ experience in M&E of health interventions.
• A strong experience with the national M&E system especially as it relates to ATM.
• Very good hands-on involvement in the government and donor landscapes.
• Experience working with key M&E/HMIS stakeholders across a multiplicity of disease programs as well experience with applicable platforms for coordinating and managing the M&E system.
• Experience in development and deployment of data quality management systems and tools.
• Experience in M&E in relation to a variety of donors [eg GF and PEPFAR].
• Experience with electronic medical records and interoperability of databases.
• Experience in the development of national tools and documents
• DHIS developer or super user experience is a strong advantage.