Family health international Current Vacancies

Family health international (FHI) company vacancies.

   Position     No.Req  location    Dept
1)zonal monitoring 
and evaluation 
officer            1    taraba zone  m&e dept
2)senior program
officer            1    cross river 
                        zone         program dept

Zonal Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Job responsibilities:
work with other members of staff to ensure that zonal monitoring and evaluation activities are appropriate and meet donor and project m&e needs.
Provide m&e support to sites in the zone, including interacting with program managers, m&e focal persons, m&e officers of saca/sascp, local research groups and implementing agencies on their m&e needs and ensuring that they understand and can support program requirements.
Support the implementation and use of monitoring and evaluation tools, including adherence to correct and timely reporting guidelines.
Conduct routine monitoring visits to project sites, including the conduct of data quality assessment (sqas) using official tools.
Assist in the preparation of monthly reports and provide supportive supervision.
Assure quality of program/project activities by ensuring adherence to sops and supporting the development and implementation of appropriate mechanisms.

Minimum Job requirements:
BS/BA, MPH, MD or similar degree on monitoring and evaluation, medicine, pharmacy or related field with 3-5 years experience in monitoring and evaluation of reproductive health or HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries.
Experience in working with locals partners, including ngos and cbos and knowledge of the local context.
Excellent computer skills with specifically in spreadsheet and other database.
Knowledge and experience in implementing project level or state/national level monitoring and evaluation system.
Familiarity with usaid programs is preferred.
Working knowledge and/or training in the use of lafiya management information system (lamis) will be an advantage.

Senior program officer
Job responsibilities:
coordinate FHI/nigeria activities within usaid and pepfar guidelines and regulations.
Assist in strengthening a system of reporting on program progress against stated objectives and monitoring and evaluating framework.
Assist in associate director for program management and zonal manager in developing program strategies, subproject documents, work plans, and budgets.
Provide programmatic assistance to local fhi partners in hiv/aids/sti activities.
Oversee technical capacity building activities at the state and local government levels and for local implementing agencies.

Minimum requirements.
Bs/ba in public health pr related field with 7-9 years relevant experience or ms/ma in public health or related field with 5-7 years relevant experience in hiv/aids programming.
Experience working with ngos and cbos.
Strong knowledge of health programs in developing countries.
Sensitivity to cultural differences and understanding of the political and ethical issues surrounding hiv infection.
Ability to work well with others and develop and maintain good working relationship with staff and all fhi partners.

Method of application:
interested candidate should forward their suitability statement (application) and resume (cv) as a single ms word document to mandejobs@ghain.org for m&e department vacancy
pmjobs@ghain.org for program department vacancy.

Only applications sent electronically (i.e. by e-mail) with the job title and location clearly indicated as the subject of the mail will be considered, and only short listed candidates will be contact.

Closing date: 19th february 2009