Qualifications and Experience:

• Degree in statistics, demography, mathematics or any other relevant quantitative relevant discipline
  
• Minimum of 5-years’ experience
  
• Demonstrable contextual knowledge of local issues, community priorities, social and cultural constraints and realities related to community assessment, project design, evaluation and implementation
  
• Cognate experience in monitoring and evaluation of community-based interventions is highly desirable
  
• Experience in managing HMIS and CLMS as well as familiarity with Nigerian public sector health systems will be added advantages.
  
• Experience in survey design and implementation, development of data bases and analysis and write up of survey results
  
• Demonstrated skills in data management and quantitative data analysis.
  

Technical contributions 50%:

• Plan and implement M&E activities related to PF- SMC in the approved work plan under the guidance of the Project Manager
  
• Serve as the focal person for all monitoring and evaluation related work for the project within the state.
  
• Ensure high quality data are available on a regular and timely basis for programmatic decision making
  
• Manage the information-gathering process for results and performance reports, in addition to other briefings, summaries, papers, presentations, etc. for various audiences as needed. (I suggest ‘manage the data collection and management processes before, during and after each round of mass SMC drug administration, including sentinel site monitoring)
  

Program Management (10%):

• Support SMoH staff with coordinating program management activities, by ensuring that the recommended coordination meetings hold at the LGA and state levels.
  
• Work with the state and LGA Ministry of Health staff to ensure that reports are obtained from all health facilities within the state through appropriate state-specific mechanisms.
  
• Participate in regular monitoring and supervisory visits to the PF-supported health facilities, and ensure that action plans are developed for identified gaps.
  

Accountability (10%):

• Support programming staff to engage key populations in monitoring and evaluating program’s performance and to incorporate participatory methods into M&E systems in Nigeria.
  
• Orient program staff and partners on the basic principles and practices of beneficiary accountability in Nigeria.
  
• Support the development and implementation of feedback and response channels to reflect the preferences of community members and beneficiaries.
  

Knowledge Management and Learning (20%):

• Ensure that state M&E and program teams regularly review and accordingly adjust M&E plans and tools in the light of changes and needs in the field context based on monitoring data and reflection sessions.
  
• Support learning-to-action events and reflection sessions to systematically analyse data for programmatic use for the state, and to document and incorporate lessons learned into program design and implementation.
  
• Conduct regular data review and analysis for feedback to states for program improvement, and for updates to national level (MC and government).
  
• Support program staff in key activities including development of a learning agenda, organizing regular learning events, supporting operations research, and reflecting, documentation, and communication of learning initiatives.
  

Representation (10%):

• Liaise with technical counterparts in the State Ministry of Health, and other local stakeholders engaged in malaria activities in Nigeria.
  
• Participate in events/ meetings related to Monitoring, Evaluation and research, including quarterly Principal Recipient and Sub-recipients quarterly review meetings.
  
• Actively participate in the M&E Community of Practice and government M&E staff.