Job title

Safire – Supporting Access for Adolescents to Integrated SRH Services

Liaison with

Marie Stopes International. We are a consultancy organisation providing technical and management expertise in the health and social sectors to governments and international development partners to transform the health of women and children. We provide information, expertise and influence to governments, health workers, NGOs and businesses to catalyse change so that health services can be accessed by the people who need them most.

Adolescent girls are twice as likely to have an unmet need for contraception compared to women in their twenties, putting them at increased risk of unintended pregnancy, with unsafe abortion rates remaining high and leading to death and injury. Adolescent girls are also more likely to face age-related stigma and barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health services, as well as lack of information and agency, increasing the risk that they delay seeking services.

There are still gaps in our knowledge and understanding of effective adolescent health programming, especially at scale, and there are very few sexual and reproductive health services that have been tailored to adolescents. We need to explore new approaches and to implement promising ones, such as engaging the private sector to reach adolescents and providing complementary and coordinated interventions.

·          Ensures girls are able to access quality comprehensive sexual and reproductive services, including through referral networks and support to CSOs.

·          Fosters and supports a community-based movement to shift social norms and build girls’ agency, though mobilising both ICT platforms and interpersonal networks.

·          Builds the capacity of local organisations to reduce unsafe abortion rates.

Safire is currently implemented in Kenya and Nigeria. In Nigeria, it is implemented in two States, Oyo and Ogun; the programme in Nigeria is managed by Options’ Nigeria office based in Abuja.

Data Management and Use

·         In collaboration with Safire Senior MEL officer (SMEL), support continuous improvement of Safire’s Digital Management Information System (DMIS), ensuring it follows the highest data protection and safeguarding standards and policies. Provide continuous feedback to the Senior MEL officer on system performance and any challenges experienced by the users

·         Under the leadership of Safire MEL officer, support the training of all Safire partners in Nigeria on the use of the DMIS, ensuring all users are familiar with the system and can regularly enter and report data as expected

·         Support the Nigeria country team and partners as required on roll-out and utilisation of Safire data collection tools to ensure high quality data is available in a timely fashion

·         In collaboration with Safire Programme Officers (POs) in Nigeria, facilitate partners’ timely and accurate data collection, entry and analysis (manual or digital, depending on context) that allows for rapid adaptation and course correction of programme activities

·         Support POs in Ogun and Oyo to regularly monitor activities of CSOs and to collate their routine reports

·         Ensure that Safire Nigeria data meets required quality standards in terms of accuracy, timeliness and completeness

·          Oversee quarterly performance assessment of CSO partners by POs utilizing the Organisational Capacity Development Tool (OCAT) and other tools, consolidating data produced by partners in Nigeria

·         Undertake quarterly MEL supervision and data quality assurance visits to Safire partners in Nigeria

·         For as long as necessary, under the guidance of SMEL, produce the excel data dashboard for Nigeria covering key programme data to be shared across Safire stakeholders on a monthly basis

·         Support the Nigeria Safire team to make use of relevant data analytics and infographics when conducting programme reviews with partners at all levels

·         Contribute to the production of programme reports, producing high quality MEL inputs, including visual representation of data

·         Promote compliance with Options’ and the clients’ data protection policies

Learning and Adaptation

·         Ensure good quality monitoring data is regularly available and shared with programme partners (consortium and CSOs) to support ongoing reflection, learning and programme adaptation

·         Initiate and/or support regular learning review sessions across the Safire partnership and other processes to share lessons learned throughout the life of the programme

·         In collaboration with Nigeria Safire team, CSOs and consortium partners, support the production of learning briefs, case studies and other knowledge products, using data visualization and documenting key lessons learned from the programme to share with Safire stakeholders

Teamwork and Capacity Development

·         Support the Senior MEL Manager to ensure the integrity and fidelity of implementation of Safire’s MEL system across the partnership in Nigeria

·         Participate as a collaborative member in the Safire MEL team, promoting a collaborative culture and

Coordination and External Liaison

·         Support the MEL Manager to engage with the programme’s third-party evaluator (APHRC)

·         Support the MEL Manager to coordinate MEL activities across the partnership in Nigeria, attending and/or facilitating regular group meetings as necessary

Capacity Building and M&E of Implementing Partners (CSOs)

·         Support design of CSOs’ M&E plans as required to monitor their performance against their approved workplans

·         Ensure timely submission of IP M&E data required under the grant and quality assure their submissions

·         Lead on assessment of implementing partners’ organisational M&E systems and design tailored capacity building plans to strengthen them

·         Lead on building M&E capacity of implementing partners (e.g. through trainings, mentoring, quality assurance)

·         Regularly communicate key findings from CSO reports to Nigeria Country Lead, for the purposes of learning

·         Routinely compile and synthesize CSO M&E reports for donor and other programme reports

Master’s degree in a related field

Yes

Experience of working in sexual and reproductive health program and working with CSOs.

Yes

Yes

Yes