[Job Vacancy] Strategic Information Advisor at Jhpiego Nigeria

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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: Strategic Information Advisor

Job ID: 2023-4913Location: TarabaJob Type: Full-timeCategory: International Positions

Overview

The Senior Strategic Information Advisor will support the RISE project, Support of Strategic Information Activities.
S/he will provide technical assistance and capacity building to the SI team and its stakeholders in the development of and implementation of data analysis, use, and dissemination strategy.
S/he will additionally design strategy and activities to improve capacity on triangulating data from multiple data sources to inform policy and decision-making.
S/he will contribute to the design of robust, user-friendly, high-quality interfaces for data visualization and data dissemination to enhance district-led and nationally supported evidence-based programming for improved understanding of HIV burden across interventions (95-95-95 cascade).
S/he will additionally provide technical assistance to design and implement strategy to build capacity of M&E systems to oversee data quality and data use for decision making (including capacity building of M&E staff).

Responsibilities

Provides technical support for the collection, analysis, triangulation and interpretation of data and the calculation of programmatic, surveillance, demographic and epidemiological indicators;
Contributes to the analysis of correlations between coverage rates and disease incidence rates;
Contributes to the identification and analysis of data from multiple sources in order to identify national and sub national trends and risk factors by population group;
Reviews and enhances systems for the analysis, triangulation, interpretation, dissemination and utilization of data from multiple sources (routine, survey, surveillance and vital statistics among others) for policy making;
Engages in discussions with health informatics staff to design robust, user-friendly, high-quality interfRISEs within the integrated Health Information Systems for data dissemination and data utilization;
Facilitates training/workshops related to data analysis, dissemination and use of information;
Identifies and strengthens regular national- and district-level platforms for evidence-based programing, including the establishment of a program performance review meeting;
Ensure compliance to donor reporting requirements into DATIM and other formats for high frequency reporting
Provide technical leadership to SIO on all M&E related issues.
Support program reporting to donors and GON
Support the director of strategic information in the development of project PMP and standard operating procedures (SOPs) related to data management, collection, aggregation and data quality assessment and QA/QI to guide state level activities
Support the process of establishing and management of an instance of DHIS2 that will warehouse facility-level data for all RISE States and facilities
Performs other duties assigned by supervisor.

Required Qualifications

Master’s Degree in Public Health, Statistics, Epidemiology, Geography and other related areas with 8 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation in international development related to HIV/AIDS comprehensive services
5 years practical or demonstrable experience in monitoring and evaluation or data management.
Demonstrated ability to be the technical specialist and as the lead subject matter expert in monitoring and evaluation.
Demonstrated ability to perform complex data analytics utilizing Microsoft Excel, STATA, Epi Info and/or other analytic software and to provide evidence-based recommendations accordingly.
Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the use of GIS and other tools to support geo-spatial display of data to target program interventions and resources.
Experience in providing M&E support to programs working with key populations including one or more of the following is preferred: sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender persons and people who inject drugs
Previous experience working with USAID or PEPFAR-supported programs including familiarity with USAID M&E reporting requirements.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Demonstrated ability to perform robust data extraction from internal and external information systems.
Demonstrated working knowledge of Nigerian health and social service information systems and monitoring and evaluation processes as it relates to data collection for performance-based reporting and use of data.
Previous experience in building capacity for generation and use of SI.
Demonstrated written, presentation, communication and organizational skills in English
Ability to travel within Nigeria.
Familiarity with Nigerian public health sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is highly desirable.
Demonstrated ability to portray complex data sets in easy to understand formats including visualizations.

Salary RangeNGN875,000 – NGN960,000 Monthly Gross

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