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Christian Aid (CA) is a UK-based international NGO, partnering with others to end poverty in Africa. At the heart of this vision is the transformation of the lives of people who live in poverty, empowering them to have a brighter future. Christian Aid works in more than 30 countries and has been operating in Nigeria since 2003. The Nigeria Country programme focuses on Community Health and HIV, Accountable Governance including humanitarian response and Gender.

About the role

The post holder will support Christian Aid to develop and strengthen Monitoring and Evaluation systems to allow for effective, accurate reporting for decision making and project implementation. The role will contribute to building the Nigerian Country Office and partner capacity to develop and use participatory approaches to monitoring and evaluation for effective project implementation for results. The State Monitoring, Evaluation/ Knowledge Management Coordinator will encourage active knowledge management and organizational learning needs using monitoring and evaluation findings. The role works within the Nigeria Country programme, the wider Programme remit. The role provides support to Community Health programmes to ensure that programmes are well implemented and reported on. Reporting is key and central to Christian Aid therefore this role ensures that timely reporting is done and in the best possible ways that meets CA standards.

About you

You are required to have a degree in Statistics, Community health or any of the Social Sciences with at least 3 years’ NGO experience and knowledge of monitoring and evaluation.  You should have good knowledge of donors’ (DFID, EU, USAID etc.) reporting requirements and standards. Familiarity with programme cycle management approaches and tools – including participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation is essential. It will be desirable for you to have a substantial knowledge of Health Management Information System (HMIS) and use of DHIS. You should have progressive experience (of not less than 3 years) of producing case studies and advocacy briefs from analysis conducted on data sets and gathered qualitative information. Good report writing and communication skills is essential.

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Competency questions

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Building partnerships

Tell us about a time when you were proactive in taking on new and additional work to achieve a team or organisational goal.What was the situation? What was the new/additional work? What was your task? Why did you need to be pro-active? What did you do? Why? How?

Steward Resources

Tell us about a time when you had to estimate the resources you needed to achieve your own work objectives and then delivered them in an efficient and cost effective way. What was the context? How had these circumstances arisen? What was your task or responsibility? What actions did you taking in first estimating what was needed and then delivering the work objectives? What was the outcome? Were you successful? If so, what was your evidence?

Strive for improvement

Please tell us about a time when you have identified a better way of doing something having taken into account the implications of your proposal. What was the context? What was your ‘better way’? What was your task? What action(s) did you take? Why? How?What was the outcome? Was your proposal accepted? What was the impact?

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