Notify Health is the name of an international non-profit organization focused on improving childhood vaccination rates in Nigeria through automated phone reminders. It is a charity incubated by Ambitious Impact and supported by the charity evaluator.
About the MEL Officer Role
Data and evidence are central to our work. As Notify Health continues to scale our vaccination reminder programs across Nigeria, we are looking for a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) officer who will ensure excellence in data collection, analysis, and reporting by executing high-volume monitoring and evaluation tasks with efficiency, accuracy, and attention to detail.
The MEL Officer role is centered around hands-on execution of routine data processes. You will spend a substantial share of your week reviewing data submissions from health workers and partner staff, grading them, deciding what is usable, correcting errors, and providing feedback that helps improve our data quality over time. You will conduct routine audits and data analysis to ensure a high-quality program. You will also play an important role in the evolution of our data pipeline. As the person who sees our processes more often than anyone else, you will be in the best position to identify what is inefficient or prone to error and to propose improvements. This is an ideal role for someone enthusiastic about technology, with a few years of M&E experience, who is excellent at careful, detailed data work and wants to use their skills to improve children’s health.
Role responsibilities
Executing the MEL system (60%)
- Review data submissions from health workers and field staff, and provide clear feedback to improve record-keeping and photo quality.
- Conduct continuous auditing of program and project implementation and produce thoughtful reports and recommendations.
- Support program evaluation activities through data processing, cleaning, and analysis.
Facilitating an accurate digitization process (20%)
- Review photos of health records, and determine which go to data entry and which are discarded.
- Oversee digitization by data entry staff, ensuring timelines are met and troubleshooting issues where required.
- Review completed data entries for quality issues and mistakes before enrolling caregivers for reminders.
- Review, adjudicate, and determine the likely cause of data entry discrepancies.
- Produce feedback and reports for the data entry team.
Improving processes, training, and learning (20%)
- Travel to key training days, and teach SurveyCTO data collection and data entry using our forms, templates, and processes.
- Contribute MEL learnings to regular program meetings in each implementation State
- Propose and implement ways to make M&E processes more efficient, such as through process improvements, automations, or template improvements.
About you
You’re a careful, reliable, and detail-oriented data person who is comfortable handling a high volume of routine data tasks, maintaining high accuracy throughout. You notice when something looks off in a dataset, and you troubleshoot and communicate problems clearly and promptly. You don’t shy away from advocating process improvements to help our program and data systems run more robustly and efficiently. If you thrive in a start-up environment, care deeply about data integrity, and are motivated by using evidence to improve health outcomes for children, we would love to hear from you.
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent professional experience) in a relevant field such as Public Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Development Economics, Computer Science, or Business Administration
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning, program analytics, or similar data-driven roles in health or development programs
- Strong practical skills with spreadsheets, particularly Google Sheets, for data management, analysis, and reporting
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to execute repetitive data processes with high accuracy
- Clear and proactive communication skills in written and spoken English
- Fluency in Nigerian Pidgin
- Comfortable working remotely with a home office setup including reliable internet and a laptop or desktop.
- Strong alignment with Notify Health\’s mission and a commitment to using data honestly and rigorously.
Preferred
- Familiarity with digital data collection platforms such as SurveyCTO, ODK, or KoboToolbox.
- Experience training others to use data tools
- Additional Nigerian languages, particularly Ebira, Tiv, or Fulfulde
- Experience in the Nigerian health system, ideally on programs working directly with CSOs, health workers, and facility-level data. Immunisation experience is a plus.
- Proficiency with data analysis or automation tools such as SQL, Google Data Studio, or Google Apps Script
Benefits
- As part of an early stage organization, you will have a large amount of autonomy in how you set up your day-to-day work. Exact hours and work location are flexible.
- Financial support for facilitating an optimal remote working environment
- Developmental budget for upskilling/training
- Competitive annual leave
- Competitive maternity leave after one year of employment
Compensation
We aim to offer fair, competitive compensation aligned with local living costs and candidate experience. While salaries vary significantly by location and experience, we expect most candidates to fall within a range of NGN 500,000 – 730,000 (USD 370 – 550) per month.
Other details
- Location: Nigeria, remote (Abuja preferred)
- Travel: Up to 10%, mainly to our implementation sites
- Contract: 12 months with possibility of renewal subject to satisfactory performance.
This role has a 6-month probationary period for you to get to know us and for us to get to know you better.
We respect your time and have designed our application process to reflect this. The first step of the application process takes 45-60 minutes, including an application form and a short 10-minute quiz, and does not require a cover letter. We only ask for more time from applicants we think would be an excellent fit. Following the application, there will be additional steps including test tasks and interviews. We endeavour to respond to each stage in the process within two weeks of the deadline; however, timing may vary depending on the number of applicants in any given cycle.
Women are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.
