Strategic Information Advisor - Akwa Ibom

About this role

The role is for a Strategic Information Advisor based in Akwa Ibom, employed by FHI 360, a nonprofit development organisation. The position provides technical leadership to improve integrated health information systems, monitoring, evaluation, data quality, and evidence-based decision making across HIV, TB, malaria, and MNCH programmes. It focuses on data collection, management, analysis, visualization, reporting and promoting interoperability of digital health platforms within government and partner systems. The advisor will support milestones and deliverables under the contract and work with government stakeholders, health facilities and community structures.

What you would do

• Provide technical assistance to government stakeholders, health facilities and community implementing structures to strengthen health information systems.
• Support development and implementation of integrated monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks and performance-monitoring systems.
• Strengthen data integration across platforms such as LAMISPlus, DHIS2, NDR, RADET, NHMIS, NDARS and other systems.
• Promote interoperability and standardisation of data collection and reporting across disease areas and levels of the health system.
• Develop and implement standardized indicator definitions, data-flow structures and reporting architectures.
• Support planning and execution of Data Quality Assurance exercises and data validation activities.
• Develop and monitor data quality improvement plans and corrective actions.
• Institutionalise continuous Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement processes.
• Support operationalisation of TQLA driven rooms and other performance-management platforms at national and subnational levels.
• Facilitate routine performance reviews, root-cause analyses and action tracking, and monitor corrective actions.

What they are asking for

• Master's degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, Biostatistics, Demography, Geography, Health Informatics, Monitoring and Evaluation or related field.
• Over 12 years of relevant experience in monitoring, evaluation, strategic information or data management in international development or public health.
• At least seven years practical experience in monitoring, evaluation and strategic information.
• Experience supporting comprehensive HIV/AIDS or integrated public health programs.
• Experience with USG programs and related reporting requirements.
• Strong expertise in monitoring, evaluation, data quality, data analytics and performance management.
• Experience conducting complex data analyses and creating visualisations (Excel, Power BI, STATA, Epi Info or similar).
• Knowledge of GIS/geospatial tools to guide targeting of interventions.
• Experience developing M&E frameworks, dashboards, SOPs, training materials and knowledge products.
• Familiarity with Nigeria's public-sector health system and working with government, NGOs and partners is desirable.

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