Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Maiduguri, Nigeria
The Family Health International (FHI 360) is seeking to fill the role of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Advisor.
FHI 360 delivers sustainable, high-quality, comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the initial rapid education and risk analysis and the development of rolling assessments to gather and analyse data about critical events that may significantly affect project implementation
- Lead development and implementation of the AMELP, including indicator selection and definition, targeting setting for all indicators, planning of all necessary data collection and analysis, and feedback loops for adaptive management
- With programme leadership, lead the development of a scenario-based implementation strategy and accompanying adaptive management plan
- Oversee and directly contribute to the development and implementation of monitoring and evaluation tools and systems to collect, interpret and aggregate data that track tangible, measurable progress toward project results and the attainment of USAID/Nigeria’s objectives
- Develop high quality quantitative and qualitative methods and participatory methodologies to monitor programme quality for performance and results
- Design appropriate feedback mechanisms to assess whether approaches implemented by the project are effective
- Lead team of monitoring and evaluation officers and provide training to staff, primary stakeholders, and implementing partners on monitoring and evaluation components in project design such as the monitoring plan, assessments, reviews, surveys and evaluations
- Ensure findings from all monitoring, assessment and survey activities are fed back into the project and disseminated to stakeholders and consortium partners for continuous programme adjustments
- Provide oversight and technical assistance to consortium partners in implementing the monitoring and evaluation system, ensuring data and analysis are of high quality
- Provide high quality and timely submission of all required project reports, including documentation of success stories, analysis of data for indicator calculation, summary of qualitative findings, etc
- Develop and support the design and implementation of end-of-project evaluation and surveys of the programme’s monitoring and evaluation system
Requirements
- Master’s degree or higher in International Development, Social Sciences, or a related field
- Five years, minimum, of experience in leading monitoring and evaluation teams in large international programmes
- Three years, minimum, of experience in developing countries, including conflict-affected environments, and experience in West/Central Africa
- Experience working in Nigeria (highly desirable)
- Database management and knowledge management experience
- Ability to use monitoring and evaluation findings for adaptive management
- Experience with rolling assessments and/or complexity-aware monitoring a plus
- Demonstrated knowledge of United States government rules, regulations, policies, and procedures as they relate to project and programme compliance and reporting
- Experience with USAID a plus
- Strong presentation and training facilitation skills
- Strong computer literacy
- Knowledge of SPSS and/or Stata a plus
- Familiarity with issues related to education in crisis and conflict-affected environments a plus
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a variety of stakeholders
- Fluency in English
- Fluency in Hausa, Kanuri or other local languages (highly desirable)
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