Title: Knowledge/Data Management Specialist

Project/Team: USAID/Nigeria MEL Support Activity

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Job Type: Full Time

Number of Vacancies: 1

Background:

Navanti has a requirement for a Knowledge/Data Management Specialist to work on a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Support Activity program that will assist USAID/Nigeria in advancing its broader organizational learning and development efforts. This program will further strengthen the Mission’s capacity and performance in programmatic monitoring, evaluation, learning, collaborating, and adapting. The MEL Support Activity will closely align with USAID/Nigeria’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) and provide a broad range of specialized technical assistance, training, data gathering and analysis, field-based monitoring, evaluations and assessments, facilitation of organizational learning and adaptation initiatives, and

short-term technical assistance.

The Knowledge/Data Management Specialist will work with USAID/Nigeria staff, USAID implementing partners, and other key stakeholders including development partners in Nigeria, and USAID/Washington stakeholders. The main objective of the MEL Support Activity is to supplement and strengthen the Mission’s monitoring, evaluation, and learning capacity to enhance programmatic outcomes and comply with USAID policies and directives. The Knowledge/Data Management Specialist will work on a technical team that will assist the Mission with strategy-, project-, and activity-level performance monitoring, evaluation, and learning including independent field-based monitoring, data quality assessments, data gathering and verification, impact and performance evaluations, assessments, collection of select country context indicators, organizational learning, and improving knowledge management. In addition, the activity will support short-term technical assistance for USAID programmatic objectives as needed where short-term technical assistance staff for learning are embedded in the Nigeria government systems that need the support. Navanti’s MEL Support team will help enable and ensure effective collection and use of relevant performance, context, and development-related data to inform the Mission on progress towards achieving USAID/Nigeria’s development objectives (DO) and enable proper oversight and adaptive management of USAID activities. This activity is expected to help support Nigeria on its Journey to Self-Reliance (J2SR), helping to build a highly qualified domestic cadre of MEL Specialists, including USAID staff, its own staff, staff of other USAID implementing partners, contractors, government counterparts, and other partners.

Core Responsibilities:

• Support effective knowledge management strategies, storage and dissemination of key information among project staff.
• Collaborate with USAID IPs to deliver technical solutions to knowledge management needs.
• Coordination of knowledge management tools and dashboards
• Training of USAID staff and implementing partners on data analysis and visualization tools and techniques.
• Collaborate with MELSA and USAID teams to identify data requirements and develop data collection and storage processes.
• Support MEL specialists with data analysis for key performance indicators as needed
• Build Mission staff capacity in data and database management.
• Provide technical expertise in the use of Geographic Information Systems and develop maps as needed.
• Provide technical support and expertise to end-users regarding data management tools and systems.]
• Support the Senior CLA Advisor in overseeing the administration of knowledge exchange events and dissemination of outputs.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Master’s Degree in information technology, knowledge management, data science, geospatial science, or related field (a Master's is preferred, however, Navanti will consider applicants with a Bachelor's Degree + 10 years of relevant experience).
• A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible professional experience in knowledge/data management, GIS, data analytics, and/or data visualization.
• Familiarity with USAID Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning policies and frameworks.
• Ability to conduct field work in areas with hardship conditions, in remote areas, for extended periods of time.
• Excellent teamwork, interpersonal, verbal and written communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Fluency in English, written and spoken.