JOB TITLE: Technical Advisor, Strategic Information

JOB LOCATION: Liberia, Monrovia

JOB SUMMARY:

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts in Health, Education, Nutrition, Environment, Economic Development, Civil Society, Gender, Youth, Research and Technology; creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today’s interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 60 countries, all 50 U.S. states and all U.S. territories. We are currently seeking qualified candidates for the position of Technical Advisor, Strategic Information EpiC Project Liberia.

EpiC is a five-year global project funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In Liberia, the project provides technical assistance (TA) and direct service delivery to break through barriers to 95-95-95 and promote self-reliant management of national HIV programs by improving HIV case-finding, prevention, treatment programming and viral load (VL) suppression among key and vulnerable populations.

The Technical Advisor, SI will be reporting to the Senior Technical Advisor – Strategic information for all strategic information related activities, including performance monitoring, data collection, reporting, analysis, visualization, presentation. S/he will support the efforts to strengthen monitoring and evaluation systems, and performance monitoring within a targeted geographic area, which may include building the capacity of community organizations to monitor, document and analyze the performance of their HIV services and activities and ensure data quality. S/he will liaise with relevant technical advisors and counterparts responsible for district and county level strategic information and monitoring and evaluation and support coordination with the national MIS. This position is critical for quality programming and generation of evidence-based approaches to support at-risk adult men and women, key and vulnerable populations (KVP) and priority populations s to be reached and linked to a variety of services along the HIV prevention, care and treatment support cascade. Furthermore, the SI Advisor will maintain existing systems to monitor EpiC project prevention services and commodities, linkage to HIV and STI testing and counselling, referrals for wrap-around services referrals and peer outreach and navigation activities for improved linkages, retention and adherence to ART.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide technical assistance to assess, strengthen and implement M&E systems and tools, to achieve programmatic goals.
• Ensure that appropriate M&E mechanisms are incorporated into work plans and reports. • Conduct capacity building activities to health facilities service providers and data clerks, to civil society, faith-based, and community-based organizations project staff and peer coordinators and navigators to support quality and timely documentation of services offered, data collection, reporting, analysis, presentation, and utilization for improved programming.
• Conduct data quality assessments and ensure actions to identified gaps are implemented. • Ensure health facilities and partners conduct routine data quality checks and reviews and monthly data verification to maintain data quality.
• Monitor program performance based on the performance monitoring and evaluationplan, annual work plans, and the environmental mitigation and monitoring plan.
• Ensure recording and reporting tools of the health facilities and partners are reviewed and revised to capture and accommodate EpiC project’s dynamic needs
• Work closely with EpiC partners to conduct mapping and size estimation exercises to inform planning

JOB DESCRIPTION

and provide technical assistance to the government.

• Inform the program team and partners on the use of PEPFAR and custom indicators to monitor program performance and support evidence-based programming.
• Ensure program achievement are reported in reporting web-based portal within timeline. • Support the Senior Technical Advisor – Strategic Information in the development of reports for EpiC HQ, USAID, the Liberian government and other stakeholders as needed.
• Coordinate, support and conduct data collection and reporting exercises for weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reporting.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s Degree in Public Health, Statistics or Epidemiology or other relevant subject and three years’ minimum work experience in MIS (offline and/or online), GIS and M&E systems including data collection and analysis or bachelor’s degree in public health, Statistics or Epidemiology or other relevant subject and minimum eight years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated ability to be the technical specialist and subject matter expert in data analytics. • Demonstrated ability to perform robust data extraction from internal and external information systems.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the use of GIS and other tools to support geo- spatial display of data to target program interventions and resources.
• Demonstrated ability to perform complex data analyses using Microsoft Excel, STATA, Epi Info, and/or other statistical software, and make recommendations based on the findings.
• Demonstrated ability to portray complex data sets in easy to understand formats including visualizations and using DHIS2
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Liberia’s health and social service information systems and monitoring and evaluation processes as it relates to data collection and reporting for performance based programming.
• Previous experience building capacity for generation and use of strategic information by community based organizations and civil society groups.
• Sensitivity to cultural differences and understanding of the political and ethical issues surrounding public health issues among key populations in Liberia.
• Ability to meet deadlines with strong attention to consistency, detail, and quality. • Ability to travel within country or region and internationally as needed.
• Demonstrated written, presentation, communication and organizational skills in English

This job description summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.

FHI 360 is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer whereby we do not engage in practices that discriminate against any person employed or seeking employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other status or characteristic protected under applicable law.

The position will be based in FHI 360’s office in Monrovia. Liberian nationals and candidates currently based in Liberia are encouraged to apply.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Suitably qualified candidates openly living with HIV and/or who are representative of the key populations affected by HIV are also actively encouraged to apply.

Application:

Send a CV and motivation letter to Liberia.EpiC.recruitment@fhi360.org Closing date is Friday March 25, 2022 at 5.00 pm at GMT.Or apply through the system below.