U.S. Embassy Abuja - USAID Project Management Specialist – Malaria Data Management Jobs in Nigeria

General Statement of Purpose of the Contract

The goal of the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) is to reduce malaria-related mortality by fifty percent (50%) across a number of high-burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and elsewhere, through rapid scale-up of proven and highly effective malaria prevention and treatment measures.

Statement of Duties to be Performed

Performance Management 35%

• Leads the development and implementation of strategies to improve malaria data quality
and data sharing, while establishing a culture of data-informed resource allocation within the hostcountry malaria control program in the Ministry of Health (MoH).

• Provides technical guidance to the host-country malaria control program, in order to build capacity in the conceptualization, development, design, administration, and monitoring of various information systems necessary for malaria control, including for malaria case management, vector control, and the supply chain of malaria commodities.

• Advises the supervisor, Office Chief, Mission Director and Deputy Mission Director, and
others on local matters of importance to data quality, use, and transformation efforts, and providing oversight of IP programs.

• Provides guidance to other Mission colleagues, USG offices, and with IPs in the areas of data collection and use, and host-country malaria data systems.

• Provides technical expertise to other USAID/Mission Health Office staff in their
performance monitoring, efforts as they relate to malaria program activities, including reviewing and providing technical feedback on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plans submitted by PMIfunded IPs.

• Liaises with PMI backstops, and with Surveillance, Monitoring and Evaluation (SM&E)
and Data Integration Teams in USAID/Washington and at CDC/Atlanta, and Mission staff
overseeing PMI activities.

• Ensures that performance monitoring systems are in place, and that periodic, reliable
measures and indicators of portfolio impact are established; and, collects and monitors malariaprogram related performance data on an ongoing basis.

• Contributes to performance monitoring reviews and reports, PMI reporting requirements, Portfolio Reviews, the annual Performance Plan and Report, as well as other reporting
requirements.

• Facilitates the negotiation of data-sharing agreements between the Mission and relevant
host-government institutions, including the MoH and others.

Data Management 35%

• Provides technical leadership to all areas of data management, including ensuring
appropriate data collection (manual and automated), inventorying, and cataloguing in the PMI data platform, for all malaria-related datasets (e.g., financial, programmatic, epidemiological, entomological, supply chain, demographic).

• Designs, facilitates, and promotes efficient means to collect, organize, clean, store, analyze, and share disparate, complex datasets, with attention to security and confidentiality, and with sensitivity to the country context.

• Applies sound data science principles and methods to objectively and systematically track
changes, and to measure progress towards national targets for malaria control in the host country.

• Conducts rigorous analysis of data from a variety of sources to locate implementation
obstacles and opportunities, and to employ cutting-edge approaches and tools to generate
visualizations.

• Facilitates the establishment and institutionalization of data use processes, with a focus on reducing the time in the information-to-decision cycle.

• Conducts data quality assessments on key performance indicators included in the
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plans for PMI-funded IPs, as required under USAID policy
(ADS 200).

• Trains and mentors the host-country and Mission colleagues in data analysis and
visualization.

Program/Project/Activity Management 30%

• Serves as a COR/AOR or Activity Manager (AM) for malaria data systems strengthening
related projects, with responsibility for providing financial and programmatic oversight to ensure contracts and grants achieve anticipated results, and are linked to and enhance attainment of the Health Office, Mission and USG objectives.

• Conduct site visits as required in order to monitor progress, and to provide technical and
programmatic recommendations to ensure effectiveness, efficiency, and judicious use of USG funding.

Supervisory Relationship

The Specialist works under the very general supervision of the Health Population Nutrition Office Chief, and the closer but general supervision of a lowerlevel supervisor, such as the HIV/AIDS and/or Malaria Team Leader. The supervisor makes assignments in terms of overall objectives and resources available. Completed work is reviewed in terms of achievement of program/project/activity

goals, effectiveness in meeting host-country and USAID objectives, and integration with other initiatives in the Office and Mission portfolio. Some technical direction may come from other professionals in the Office;

Prior Work Experience

A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience, with a focus on data collection and analysis in the area of malaria-related public health is required.

Demonstrated experience in the programming of malaria data-collection and dataquality programs/projects/activities.

This experience must demonstrate that the Specialist has strong public health and applied data science skills. The Specialist must have demonstrated technical leadership in data systems as they relate to malaria prevention and control, program management, planning, policy development, and problem-solving skills while working in a sensitive environment.

Language Proficiency: Level IV (fluent proficiency) in English, and in the appropriate
host-country business language, both written and spoken, is required. Language competence
may be tested.

Job Knowledge

The Specialist must have in-depth professional-level knowledge of techniques and approaches for gathering, analyzing, interpreting, and conducting surveillance
of data, as well as using this information to drive decision making.

The Specialist must have knowledge of development principles, concepts, and practices, especially as they relate to
malaria prevention, control, and elimination activities in the host country and/or region, and the problems and policies in the host country from the business, political, civil society, and social perspectives.

The Specialist must have knowledge and understanding of the economic, political, social, and cultural characteristics of the host country; development problems in the
health sector in the host country and the region; an understanding of the resources, resource constraints, and overall development prospects and priorities of the host country and the region.

Working knowledge USG legislation, policy, and practice relating to malaria assistance, of
USAID programming policies, regulations, procedures, and documentation, and of the
objectives, methodology, and status of assigned activities. The Specialist must have knowledge and understanding of the organization and respective roles of the different levels
of the host government, in order to enhance effective communication, and to develop
consensus on program/project/activity strategy and implementation.

Skills and Abilities

The Specialist must have the ability to facilitate and link culturally appropriate malaria assessments and related issues to other health and related programs, such as food security, water, sanitation, and hygiene; and, be able to use this data for decision making.

Ability to provide technical leadership in malaria data collections; and, apply this
ability to programming in the host country and the region.

The Specialist must have the ability
to issue precise and accurate factual reports using rigorous analytical and interpretive skills.

Excellent communication skills both writing and speaking, especially in being able to communicate technical subjects to clients with nontechnical background are required.

This role requires the ability to respond professionally and adjust in fluid situations in order to meet deadlines in the face of competing priorities and time pressures.

Excellent computer and software skills including ability to manage large amounts of data in excel, SPSS, STATA, and/or other analytical databases, and the ability to help others and to learn new programs quickly, is required.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; U.S. Embassy Abuja - USAID Project Management Specialist – Malaria Data Management Jobs in Nigeria

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