UNICEF Nigeria seeks the services of suitable and qualified candidates to fill the above vacancy Purpose: 

Post Title: CMAM Information Management Officer (Nutrition) 

Level:NOB 

Contract Type: Temporary Appointment (TA) 

Duration: 364 Days 

Location: Abuja 

Deadline for application: 14 May 2014 

Under the overall supervision of Chief of Nutrition, the Information Management Officer (Nutrition) as an expert will manage overall nutrition data/information and provide support to the fieid teams and state partners for monitoring, evaluation and supportive supervision to ensure effectiveness "and efficiency in nutrition programme. The key functions under data  management and monitoring included to provide support for effective use of mobile phone for RapidSMS and use of 

smartphone for programme monitoring and supportive supervision. The incumbent of the of the post will work in close collaboration with PME section in Abuja and field officers, and will ensure close collaboration with the government counterparts and programme sector partners at federal and statelevels 

Duties and Tasks: 

• Provide support to ensure that a set of nutrition programme performance indicators including CMAM, IYCF and  MNCHW programmes programmes are collected and analyzed as per the Nutrition Section multi-year work plan,set of 

milestones and key programme performance indicators

• Support implementation of training for building the capacity of concerned teams/staff and partners on nutrition  

data/information management, monitoring, evaluation and supportive supervision using recent innovation and  technology including moblie phone for RapidSMS for CMAM data reporting and smartphone for monitoring and supportive supervision

• Coordinate planning and imlpementation of piloting and scaling up of nutrition data (e.g. CMAM and other) reportingusing mobile phone RapidSMS method and programme monitoring and supervision in a real time basis using smartphone technology. 

• In coordination with the go with the governement and programme partners the nutrition programme monitoring strategy and tools designed. and data collection and analysis are coordinated/standardized across the programme states 

• Preparing plans for programme monitoring and analysis of programme performace indicators, provide professional inputs to donor and other reports, including relevant sections for the annual report

• Provide support to programme partners and concerned staff of governement counterparts in perparing and conducting programme monitoring, review and evaluation. 

• Monitor programme to ensure quality of Implementation of planned activited and effective data management; identify challenges/bottlenecks and provide feedback to field teams ad partners to address the challenges/bottlenecks. 

• Promote awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of nutrition data/information management,  monitoring/evaluation and supportive supervision functions of the team in country office and the teams of field offices 

through communication, training, learning and devetopment acivities in connection to monitoring in section-wide. 

• Disseminate the results and recommendations of monitoring, review and evaluation to the intended audiences in user- friendly methods. In particular. to ensure that effective participatory feedback is provided to UNICEF field teams, partners. states/LGAs and community, 

Minimum Requirements; 

Education: 

University degree in social sciences, statistics, development planning, nutrition, public health. epidemiology. 

Work Experience: 

• Professional work experience in programme development and implementation including information 

management, monitoring and evaluation activities as follows: 

• Two years of relevant professional work experience including field work. Experience in nutrition data 

management. monitoring and evaluation. 

• Skills on use of statistical analysis software. database management and use of smart phone technology, 

• Fluency in English and knowledge of another UN language 

 

If you are interested in this position and rneet the requirements, please send a one-page summary statement that describes how your experience and qualifications relate to the post and a scanned !PDF copy of the completed and signed UN Personal History Form (which can be downloaded from www.unicef.org/nigeria/about.3345_html) to [email protected] Wednesday May 14 2014, 

 

Please mention the position title YOLI are applYing for on the subject line of your email. 

 

UNICEF, a smoke-free environment, is committed to gender equality in its mandate alld its staff. Well qualified candidates. particularly women are strongly encouraged to apply.