Job Opportunities at Palladium Group

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Conduct a needs assessment to inform the establishment/strengthening of the institutional OREACs in Taraba and Akwa Ibom States
• Propose key activities to strengthen the capacity of members and make the OREAC functional optimally in each state
• Support, as required, National Health Research and Ethics Committee (NHREC) trainings of OREAC members and facilitate their registration/re-registration with NHREC
• Support the OREACs to review and identify priority health research areas for the state to guide conduct of research by individuals and organizations in the state
• Support the OREACs to establish a system of research protocol submission, review, approval and archival to promote ethical conduct of health research in the state
• Support in-house trainings on key aspects of ethics in health research for OREACs in the two states
• Support the Committees in the technical review of research protocols submitted to it by individuals and organizations
• Support the conduct of monthly OREAC review meetings 
• Support the Committees in their roles in creating awareness on ethical conduct of health research among the community of practice

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree or Doctorate in Public Health or other health related fields with training in public health research and other types of research involving human subjects
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience conducting research involving human subjects and working with and mentoring health research ethics committees
• Thorough knowledge of all aspects of research design, implementation, and dissemination
• Experience training and mentoring senior public officials on research and research ethics
• Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships among teams and organizations
• Excellent written and verbal skills in English; ability to communicate technical information to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise

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 Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support in OVC indicators performance management at the national and state level, working with OVC partners to implement best data practices and tracking the performance of OVC custom indicators. 
• Provide technical M&E backstop for USAID OVC SI, program teams in relation to reporting requirements in the Automated Partner Performance Reporting (APPR) platform and OVC custom indicators. 
• Conduct routine analysis of the OVC and Gender programs to provide key insights for the realignment of strategies; regular analysis and reviews of National and state-level performance on key priority indicators.  
• Act as the Product Owner for the NOMIS system and lead the deployment effort across the Operation Unit (OU) - USAID, DOD, and CDC IPs.
• Provide technical support in implementing routine data quality assessment for the OVC program across the USAID-supported states adopting a standardized approach per the PEPFAR, USAID Mission, and national guidelines. 
• Working with the Senior Data Use Advisor, lead the institutionalization of Data.FI’s Situation Room approach at the OVC Situation Room, collaborating with the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs (FMWA), support implementation of the situation room methodology for data review across other USAID states of interest. 
• Provide technical support for the National OVC situation analysis and lead Data.FI technical role at the consortium of partners in the activity
• Collaborate with the FMWA to strengthen the OVC Information Technology Team (ITT) to sustain the support for NOMIS.
• Represent Data.FI in OVC, Gender, and NOMIS national technical working groups.
• Lead the capacity-strengthening efforts in data use, data analytics, and visualization at the FMWA staff in a bid to sustain Data.FI efforts at the FMWA.
• Facilitate trainings on data use and related topics with FMWA, implementing partners teams, and state ministries, including taking creative approaches to providing support in low-bandwidth environments. 
• Build a case and action plan for increasing data use for programmatic and budget decision-making at national and state levels. 
• Develop and implement quality assurance and improvement approaches, plans, and tools, focusing on data quality assessments and program improvement plans for the OVC program. 
• Conduct quarterly data quality scores across the data systems for the OVC program, i.e., Data for Accountability, Transparency and Impact Monitoring (DATIM), APPR, National Data Repository (NDR), and patient-level data. 
• Produce data quality dashboards and reports; implement data quality strategies to effectively govern data and improve data quality. 
• Work with other implementing partners to strengthen the data analytics and visualization capabilities of APPR System 2.0, DHIS2, situation rooms, and other platforms. 
• Provide ad-hoc support for GIS mapping requests for the COVID-19 activity. 
• Support the USAID SI team as required in response to data demands.
• Implement any other duties assigned per the dynamic programming environment defined by USAID. 

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Statistics, Health Informatics, Computer Science, Monitoring and Evaluation or a related field. 
• At least five years’ experience working with health management information systems or routine health information systems.
• Experience working with HIV/AIDS and OVC programs, including DHIS 2 preferred.
• Skills in data analysis with proficiency in a statistical package i.e., Stata, SPSS, advanced excel, or Business Intelligence applications. 
• Previous experience conducting State/LGA, and facility data assessments and data reviews. 
• Working knowledge of patient-level and aggregate data management systems.  
• Ability to work well under pressure, skills in crisis management and problem solving.
• Excellent written and verbal skills in English; ability to communicate technical information to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise. 
   

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 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• In coordination with the Data.FI Nigeria Data Analytics and Data Use Lead and Health Informatics Lead prepare consolidated reports that include concise narratives and relevant tables to meet donor reporting requirements.
• Provide technical support to the implementation of Data.FI’s Situation Room methodology at the National level and the National Agency for Control of AIDS (NACA). 
• Provide technical support to high-frequency reporting (HFR) and administration of APPR system with optimal use at the National level and facilitate access across the hierarchies.
• Update and maintenance of indicators, generating indicator code lists and data elements configuration on the APPR.
• Prepare Quarterly, Semi/Annual reports on project progress and  monitor project activities on a regular basis.
• Track and efficiently curate results for the workplan benchmarks for donor reporting across projects in Data.FI Nigeria.
• Collaborate with the global MEL team to extract meaning and learning from the results and prepare success stories, progress reports, case studies, and other knowledge management products as required 
• Create and revise data collection tools for project results reporting. 
• Review project indicator results reported to determine if they meet indicator definitions, and work with activity leads to ensure proper documentation is on hand.
• Build the capacity of project and country teams on M&E through training workshops, coaching, and mentoring, particularly understanding relevant indicators and how to document them per the project MEL plan and resources. 
• Develop draft MEL frameworks, logic models, theories of change, indicators, and indicator reference sheets on an as-needed basis for new USAID work, indicator harmonization exercises, and proposal submissions.
• Work with the global MEL team to innovate processes and approaches to encourage MEL reporting on the project.  
• Actively participate in and contribute to monthly MEL team meetings. 
• Respond to routine data analysis requests from the USAID HAT team and provide necessary feedback in a timely manner. 
• Work with implementing partners to standardize monitoring and evaluation systems. 
• Any other duties assigned as per the dynamic programming environment.

Required Qualifications:

• A Master's Degree in Public Health, Statistics, Health Informatics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• At least 3 years’ experience working with Health Management Information Systems supporting data management, data analysis and data dissemination for decision making.
• Sound technical experience working with DHIS2 systems.
• Experience working with HIV/AIDS programs. 
• Ability to work well under pressure, demonstrated skills in crisis management and problem-solving. 
• Ability to work in a dynamic and agile environment with changing requirements and priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal skills in English to communicate technical information to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise.
• Sound analytical, and decision-making skills. 
• Demonstrated understanding of the PEPFAR data streams, the analytic questions facing PEPFAR programs and PEPFAR reporting requirements; experience with PEPFAR surge and HFR preferred. 
• Experience in leading and conducting rigorous and evidence-based data quality assessments (DQAs)
• Demonstrated extensive experience working on M&E methodologies, data collection and analysis, and dissemination of findings.
• Proven skills in data analysis with proficiency in statistical packages – Stata, SPSS, NVivo, advanced MS Excel, BI applications or other relevant statistical packages.
• Technical Knowledge working with patient-level and aggregate data management systems; experience with LAMISPlus in Nigeria and National OVC Management Information System (NOMIS) preferred.