TITLE: MONITORING AND EVALUATION TECHNICAL ADVISOR, NIGERIA
DEPARTMENT: WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA
DATE: JULY 2008
Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization, operating in more than 60 developing countries. PSI creates demand for essential health products and services by using private sector marketing techniques and innovative communications campaigns. On the supply side, PSI works with the commercial sector to increase the availability of these products and services at prices that are affordable to low-income populations. With a bottom-line orientation that is rare among non-profits, PSI markets products and services for family planning, maternal and child health, and the prevention of AIDS, malaria and other diseases. For more information, please visit: www.psi.org.
PSI seeks entrepreneurial, dynamic candidates for the position of Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Advisor to the Society for Family Health (SFH), PSI’s partner agency in Nigeria. This management team-level position is based in Abuja and will report to the SFH Managing Director in Nigeria and to the PSI Regional Director, West & Central Africa in Washington, DC.
SFH is the largest social marketing organization and local non-profit organization in Nigeria, with sixteen regional offices across the country and over 250 staff. SFH implements diverse public health interventions in HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and maternal and child health. SFH activities range from product sales and distribution to behavior change communication, advocacy, research, and community mobilization. SFH’s donor platform includes DFID, the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, USAID, and numerous other donors.
RESPONSIBILITIES: The Technical Advisor will be responsible for providing performance monitoring oversight of the “Enhancing the National Response to HIV/AIDS (ENR) Program”, as well as strengthening the capacity of the SFH HIV/AIDS and Research Departments in the areas of performance monitoring and research. Specific duties include, but are not limited to assisting SFH in:
- Monitoring sub-contractor progress in various program areas;
- Developing ENR program work plans. Monitoring overall program progress and achievement of activities and outputs;
- Developing research designs for HIV/AIDS including study designs, questionnaire development, analysis and dissemination;
- Training country-level researchers and strengthening capacity to design studies, oversee data collection, and analyze results;
- Designing quantitative studies to segment populations, monitor social marketing and franchising activities and to evaluate intervention effectiveness;
- Designing qualitative studies to develop communication concepts, pretest communication strategies, and evaluation programs;
- Writing reports and delivering presentations to internal and external stakeholders;
- Documenting and disseminating research findings through publication and other methods;
- Establishing networks of information collection and sharing, and strengthening overall M&E capacity;
- Providing technical assistance to the research team on using mapping activities to measure coverage and access to SFH products, as well as helping to enhance reporting of SFH field activities through mapping;
- Increasing the capacity of, and provide technical support to program staff for building their skills in interpreting research results and using a research-to-action approach to guide programmatic decisions and activities; and
- Developing and implementing a training curriculum to strengthen identified gaps, along with a benchmarked calendar of implementation.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Minimum five years of developing country work experience;
- Ph.D. or equivalent experience in social, medical, or biological sciences;
- Experience in the design, management, analysis, and dissemination of behavioral research in public health, especially HIV/AIDS;
- Experience in performance monitoring of large public health programs;
- Excellent organizational and multitasking capabilities;
- Fluency in English required; and
- Demonstrated ability to produce results.
The successful candidate will exhibit creative, innovative, and strategic thinking ability; excellent oral and written communication, analytical, organizational interpersonal and cross-cultural skills; extensive knowledge of a statistical analysis program; experience of designing different types of qualitative studies and ability to train, manage and develop capacity within country-level staff; the ability to work closely with program staff to deliver actionable and insightful research outputs; strong attention to detail; ability to work efficiently and quickly under pressure; and a strong interest in private sector approaches to development; and a proven ability to produce results and meet objectives under difficult circumstances.
* Please be advised that this position is tentative pending grant approval.
APPLY ONLINE at http://www.psi.org. No calls or emails, please.
PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or disability.
