The name Helen Keller is known around the world as a symbol of courage in the face of overwhelming odds, yet she was much more than a symbol. She was a woman of luminous intelligence, high ambition and great accomplishment who devoted her life to helping others.
Helen Keller, our co-founder, envisioned a world without barriers to human potential. Guided by her fierce optimism, we have been working on the front lines of health and well-being for more than 100 years. Working in 19 countries across Africa and Asia—as well as in the United States—we are dedicated to eliminating preventable vision loss, malnutrition, and diseases of poverty.
In the past year, our life-changing health solutions benefited an estimated 300 million people in places where the need is great but access to care is limited.
The overall purpose of the project in Nigeria is to provide technical support, implement innovative nutrition-specific and sensitive interventions, and generate evidence to enhance nutrition programming toward achieving the overall goal of improving nutrition indices for a healthy, productive, and resilient Nigeria. This activity will support the donor’s effort to strengthen the enabling environment for innovation, commitment, capacity strengthening, coordination, collaboration, and support for multi-sectoral nutrition policies and programs among government, donors, civil society, and private sector stakeholders in Nigeria.
Specific Responsibilities:
Under the supervision of the State Coordinator, the M&E Officer will:
- Support the development and implementation of a project performance monitoring framework/plan that ensures that project activities align with required deliverables and targets.
- Utilize established systems and tools for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on the project.
- Work closely with the State Committee on Food and Nutrition to determine areas of M&E support and provide such support.
- Work with the Monitoring Evaluation and Research Advisor, to ensure the alignment of M&E activities with program goals and contribute to the development of annual work plans to identify state targets and ensure the inclusion of M&E activities.
- Monitor project activities and track activities against the state results framework.
- Conduct visits to LGAs and service delivery sites to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets.
- Generate monthly indicator reports and track progress against key indicators.
- Work closely with the state stakeholders and train M&E staff at the LGA, facility, and community levels to build their M&E capacity.
- Contribute to the identification, analysis, and synthesis of technical knowledge and evidence-based information in intervention areas including family planning, reproductive, maternal and child health, malaria, nutrition, and immunization.
- Report directly to the State Coordinator with
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree / HND in Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences, Public Health, Health Information Management, or a related field
- Master's Degree Preferred.
- A minimum of 6 years of progressively responsible experience designing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and learning tasks for health and/or development projects.
- Familiarity with USAID/International indicators and standard measurement tools in Nutrition as well as NHMIS and DHIS2 is required.
- Competency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and ACCESS, and a statistical software package (SPSS, EPI-INFO, STATA, SAS or similar).
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work with relevant government partners, USAID, other Donors, and implementing partners.
- Good verbal, listening, writing, and intrapersonal skills essential for effective interaction among several institutions and staff involved in a broad range of activities.
- Experience in organizing and facilitating systems strengthening, capacity development and mentoring processes.
- Fluent in English (written and oral communication
Method of Application
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