Sunday 8 February 2015

Abt Associates Jobs 2015 Project Assistant, Statistician and Data Manager

Abt Associates, a major American international development company, is implementing a USAID-funded Project to combat malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. The main objective of the project will beto reduce the burden of malaria in a number of African countries through cost-effective indoor residual spraying and setting up comprehensive entomological monitoring system.
Abt Associates seeks qualified candidates for the project's operations in Nigeria to implement entomological surveillance.

Job Title: Project Assistant, Statistician and Data Manager
Location: Lagos

Job Detail

The International Health Division is committed to the improvement of health and healthcare delivery around the world.  Serving both the public and private sectors, our efforts include health policy research and evaluation, health promotion and disease prevention, health finance, and health systems management.  Our impact is felt in policies that ensure healthcare access for women, children, and individuals with special needs, in strengthening health infrastructures, and HIV or AIDS solutions.

Job Summary and Key Responsibilities

Contribute to the design and development of specific M&E plans and program-level indicators for PATHS2 programme activities. Collaborate with other DFID SLPs and other donor programs to develop, track and monitor indicators related to project performance.
Contributing to the development or adaptation of M&E tools, resources and processes in key thematic areas and across outputs of the PATHS2 programme.
Plan all routine data activities and provide inputs into M&E annual workplan and revision process.
Coordinate routine data collection from all programme officers, using project data reporting system.
Provide leadership, including training on the collection, processing and analysis of all data collected and guide in the preparation of specification for data entry, editing, validation, tabulation before analysis.
Collaborates with national data centres NBS, NDHS & other agencies, including SLPs, DfID health projects and development partners, as well as programmes to obtain data that are relevant to PATHS2 programme
Collaborate with other line ministries in the State, NGOs, DFID, and other SLPs to support the implementation of the PATHS2 and State MoH M&E strategies.
Maintaining a comprehensive database of information for PATHS2 at state and national programme levels.
Remaining informed on contemporary issues, best practices, and lessons learned in the course of implementing the programme's mandate that will contribute to and enhance the M&E of the PATHS2 programme.
Participates in all project surveys, special studies, including operations research and evaluation studies
Perform any other M&E or project related assignment as may be required of yo

Qualification

MBA, MSc, MA
Masters degree in statistics preferred
Atleast 4 years of professional experience in data management, statistical analysis, information  management, or other relevant analytical experience, especially in a health sector programme desired.

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