Senior Technical Advisor Monitoring and Evaluation (PMTCT) Vacancy at Caritas Nigeria

Posted on: Fri 04-11-2016

Caritas Nigeria was established in September 2010 by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), as a specialized national development agency with a mandate for overall coordination of development programs for the Catholic Church in Nigeria. Although independently registered, Caritas Nigeria is an arm of the Church and Society Department of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN). Caritas Nigeria also provided care, treatment and support to over 39,921 patients in ten service delivery health facilities under the CHARIS program which was supported by the United States of America through the Centre for Disease Control and prevention (CDC).

CCPN is receiving applications from qualified candidates to fill the following vacant position.

Position: Senior Technical Advisor Monitoring and Evaluation (PMTCT)

Location: Nigeria

Key Responsibilities:

* S/he will collate, analyse, interpret and disseminate weekly, monthly and quarterly specific PMTCT data reports to MOH and stakeholders;

* He will make advocacy visits to all critical stakeholders including the civil society organization at all levels to obtain their buy-in and sustained engagement for weekly data collection and analysis in National PMTCT space;

* S/He will work with each partner to engage data clerks to facilitate the collation and transmission of the health facility PMTCT data on weekly bases to a data centre which is hosted by the FMoH.

* S/He will work with the PEPFAR USG PMTCT team to analyse weekly PMTCT data, identify gaps in program data and provide feedback to the USG implementing partners on corrective action that is needed;

* S/He will work with the PEPFAR USG PMTCT team to collate, review and document corrective actions and to keep track of the progress;

* Perform data quality audits, coordinate data cleaning through M&E field teams and verify data accuracy of the data before submission of all data reports

* The Statistician will be embedded and work from the Federal Ministry of Health and will report to SUSTAIN Project Director, PMTCT TWG and the GON.

Required skills and experience:

* Terminal Degree in Medicine, Public Health, Epidemiology, Behavioral Science, Management Information System, Information Technology, Statistics or related field is required.

* At least 5 years relevant experience in M&E with background HIV/AIDS programming and statistical packages funded by PEPFAR

* Database design, implementation and administration

* Ability to provide leadership, direction, and technical expertise in the analysis of public health data

* Ability to lead project teams and workgroups and to develop effective working relationships with national and international working partners is required.

* Expert skill level in the use of health aggregate databases (MoH DHIS2 & DATIM)

* Proficiency in computer packages for generating and analysis reports.

* Experience in use of visual analytics tools is an added advantage

* Proficient in statistical analysis packages (SPSS/STATA/R etc)

* Proficiency in English language is required

Application Closing Date:

12 noon, Wednesday 9th of November, 2016

How to apply:

Interested candidates should send an application letter with a detailed resume {in a one (1) word document} to [email protected] Title of the position must be clearly stated as the subject of the email.

Applications sent in the required format will be considered and only short listed candidates will be contacted.

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