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Title: Programme Officer (Evaluations and Surveys)

Location: Kaduna, Nigeria

Salary: Local Terms & Conditions apply

Contract: 2 year Fixed Term Contract

Considering the size of Nigeria and the need to fast track elimination; this role is critical towards ensuring that key elements like coverage surveys, impact assessments etc are carried out. This support will be for all the various donor funded programmes in Nigeria. This role will support the Country Technical Adviser in carrying out specific initiatives to distil knowledge from evaluations, innovations, surveys towards distilling evidence for elimination of NTDs in ASCEND and other donor funded programmes in Nigeria.

As the Programme Officer you will support NTD monitoring, surveillance and operations research activities across funded Sightsavers Nigeria Country programmes and be involved in the implementation of routine surveys and assessments like treatment coverage surveys and impact assessments. You will plan and actively support in select evaluations, (thematic/strategic) and project evaluations, contribute to ongoing process of results orientation through methodological development of tools and assist in providing capacity building for Monitoring and Evaluations of NTDs, including data collection, NTD mapping, and the assessment of disease transmission and evaluation of NTD programme impact in conjunction with programme teams and national programme.

Further to the capacity building for M&E’s of NTDs, you will provide direct assistance on the use of the integrated NTD database, WHO supported information systems, and other global tools. Ensure the use of preferred practices in M&E for the control and elimination of NTDs, oversee implementation of M&E activities and post-MDA assessments, oversee implementation of M&E activities and post-MDA assessments, provide expertise in conceptualizing quantitative and qualitative data collection and provide support, as appropriate, into NTD research concept notes, protocols, ethics applications, and drafting papers for publication as required.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills, please read the complete Job Description for further details.

Closing date: 1st September 2019

Interview dates: Week commencing 9th September 2019

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should download the “Application Form” and “Equal Opportunities Form” by clicking the link below and return as two separate documents to: [email protected] using the “Job title” as the subject of the email.

Click here to Download Application Form (doc)

Click here to Download Equal Opportunities Form (doc)

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Sightsavers is an international non-governmental organisation that works with partners in developing countries to treat and prevent avoidable blindness, and promote equality for people with visual impairments and other disabilities. It is based in Haywards Heath in the United Kingdom, with branches in Sweden, Norway, India, Italy, Republic of Ireland, the United Arab Emirates, and the USA.The charity was founded in 1950 by Sir John Wilson and was originally called the British Empire Society for the Blind, then the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind. Its patron is HRH Princess Alexandra. In its 65 year history, Sightsavers has distributed treatment to protect more than 295 million people against river blindness (onchocerciasis), carried out 6.1 million sight-restoring cataract operations and treated 43 million people with antibiotics to combat the potentially blinding infection trachoma.

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0 USD Kaduna CF 3201 Abc road Fixed Term , 40 hours per week Sightsavers

Title: Programme Officer (Evaluations and Surveys)

Location: Kaduna, Nigeria

Salary: Local Terms & Conditions apply

Contract: 2 year Fixed Term Contract

Considering the size of Nigeria and the need to fast track elimination; this role is critical towards ensuring that key elements like coverage surveys, impact assessments etc are carried out. This support will be for all the various donor funded programmes in Nigeria. This role will support the Country Technical Adviser in carrying out specific initiatives to distil knowledge from evaluations, innovations, surveys towards distilling evidence for elimination of NTDs in ASCEND and other donor funded programmes in Nigeria.

As the Programme Officer you will support NTD monitoring, surveillance and operations research activities across funded Sightsavers Nigeria Country programmes and be involved in the implementation of routine surveys and assessments like treatment coverage surveys and impact assessments. You will plan and actively support in select evaluations, (thematic/strategic) and project evaluations, contribute to ongoing process of results orientation through methodological development of tools and assist in providing capacity building for Monitoring and Evaluations of NTDs, including data collection, NTD mapping, and the assessment of disease transmission and evaluation of NTD programme impact in conjunction with programme teams and national programme.

Further to the capacity building for M&E’s of NTDs, you will provide direct assistance on the use of the integrated NTD database, WHO supported information systems, and other global tools. Ensure the use of preferred practices in M&E for the control and elimination of NTDs, oversee implementation of M&E activities and post-MDA assessments, oversee implementation of M&E activities and post-MDA assessments, provide expertise in conceptualizing quantitative and qualitative data collection and provide support, as appropriate, into NTD research concept notes, protocols, ethics applications, and drafting papers for publication as required.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills, please read the complete Job Description for further details.

Closing date: 1st September 2019

Interview dates: Week commencing 9th September 2019

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should download the "Application Form" and "Equal Opportunities Form" by clicking the link below and return as two separate documents to: [email protected] using the "Job title" as the subject of the email.

Click here to Download Application Form (doc)Click here to Download Equal Opportunities Form (doc)
2019-09-02

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