Associate Manager, Field Monitoring

Requirements

• Master’s degree in a relevant field with strong economics, statistics, or mathematics or public health background
  
• 6+ years of experience supporting monitoring and evaluation of health programs in Nigeria
  
• Strong technical skills and capacity, with at least 2 years of practical experience managing M&E staff and working directly with large teams and data.
  
• Experience writing research and monitoring reports for programs
  
• Project management and coordination skills
  
• Experience using electronic data collection platforms, specifically SurveyCTO for data collection and management
  
• Data analysis skill and experience is an added advantage, specifically using STATA
  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  
• Willing to travel on short notice, to multitask, to work in ambiguity and to respond to instruction from multiple sources.
  

Research and Learning

• Lead the development and maintenance of relevant databases for tracking and managing program information (planning and treatment data) for the Nigeria program.
  
• Capturing and disseminating lessons learnt from implementation rounds as well as tracking improvements in those significant areas over time to ensure that learnings are translated to program improvements.
  
• Supporting operations research activities for the Nigeria program.
  
• Supporting process monitoring data analysis
  

Vendor management

a. Data collection

▪ Support the sourcing for vendors to provide data collection service to Evidence Action in Nigeria

▪ Lead in drafting and reviewing Terms of Reference (ToR) and Scope of Work for data collection vendors.

▪ Directly manage budget, timelines and deliverables by vendors contracted to perform data collection on behalf of Evidence Action.

▪ Lead in verifying and validating data collected by data collection vendors and/or other partners through data reviews, checks and field visits

Coordination between MLE and Program, Government and Partners

• Represent MLE in program meetings with partners and government (at both State and National levels) where MLE presence is needed.
  
• Communication of requests from the program teams, government or partners that relate to the MLE team.
  
• Communicating program requests and/or needs for data and translating that back to the necessary MLE delivery team/members for necessary action when required.
  

Review process monitoring reports

• Review process monitoring reports shared by Data Learning team and provide context-based input before the team finalises and shares the report with program teams
  
• Review and share with Data Learning field reports from the independent monitoring firm
  

Team management

• Managing the work plans and priorities of the MLE team in Nigeria
  
• Support the recruitment and onboarding of MLE staff in Nigeria in collaboration with the MLE leadership, HR Manager and the necessary representatives from program teams
  
• Manage the productivity, professional development and skill building of the MLE team under her supervision.
  

Training

• Develop training materials and protocols to train external data collection vendors, government and/or other partners involved in data collection.
  
• Oversee the training of monitors at the independent monitoring firm on M&E activities before data collection.
  
• Train government officials on monitoring and evaluation with a focus on treatment data.
  

Data management

• Manage program reporting systems and verify/validate data reported or collated from implementation units prior to official reporting/dissemination
  
• Support maintenance of internal database and ensure data availability for planning and decision-making
  
• Support other hoc data-related tasks as requested by the country’s programs teams