Company Profile

Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with the John Hopkins University.  For 50 years and over and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego works with health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality health care for their people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries care for themselves by training competent health care workers, strengthening health systems and improving delivery of care. Jhpiego designs innovative, effective and low-cost health care solutions to ensure a level of care for women and their families. These practical, evidence-based interventions are breaking down barriers to high-quality health care for the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Job Description

Project Overview
Breast cancer is the most frequent cause of cancer death in women across Africa. In Ghana, breast cancer has the highest incidence and mortality of all cancers. Jhpiego is partnering with the Pfizer Foundation on Breast cancer End-to-end care from Assessment to Treatment (BEAT) Breast Cancer in Ghana —a transformational initiative aimed at reducing mortality among women with Breast Cancer through stage-shifting, early diagnostics, and timely treatment. This partnership seeks to reduce the symptomatic period of breast cancer in Ghana from the current 12 months to less than three months by rooting the intervention in innovations, women-centered care, and patient navigation pathways to saturate PHC capacity for early detection by clinical breast exam (CBE), institutionalize breast health awareness interventions in social behavior change communications (SBCC) platforms, ensure timely diagnosis by decentralizing diagnoses at the secondary level, and facilitate access to multimodality treatment.  

Jhpiego aims to strive towards creating strong, innovative, and sustainable implementation models integrated into Ghana’s health system and grounded in a woman-centered approach to ensure respectful and responsive services for all women with breast cancer. 

The project will be implemented across selected districts in the Ashanti, Greater Accra, and Northern regions of Ghana over a 3-year period. 

We are currently looking for suitable professional to fill the following position:

Job Location: Accra, Jhpiego Office  

• Position Reports to: Project Director 
• Supervises: MERL Officer  

• Manage all MERL components of the project including overseeing the development of the project’s MERL Plan, annual work plans, quarterly reports, semi-annual and annual reports.
• Participate in the design and implementation of innovative MERL tools to measure project impact that align with the project’s strategic goals and performance indicators.
• Assist in the production of the project’s data quality assessment and reports in compliance with donor and Jhpiego rules and regulations on indicators, results and impact.
• Support the in-country project team in a routine manner on data interpretation and promote regular use of data for program improvement and management.
• Participate in the design of data quality assurance mechanisms and data validation.
• Coordinate data entry and processing and develop a data analysis plan per reporting requirements.
• Help build the MERL capacity of both local organizations and the government to design, implement, and monitor MERL activities, develop an MERL plan, and use data effectively across various levels of the health system.
• Oversee the design and implementation of operational research needs for the project in-country.
• Ensure the application of global best practices in the generation and use of routine data for this project

Required Skills or Experience

• At least a master’s degree in public health, statistics or a related field
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in research, monitoring and evaluation of health interventions and programs.
• Ability to interact with a broad range of governmental and non-governmental actors and institutions across sectors.
• Knowledge of Government of Ghana’s health systems structure, interventions and priorities
• Strong skills and experience in all aspects of program design and development, implementation, research monitoring, and evaluation.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in women’s cancer program implementation
• Demonstrated experience in program implementation operational research 
• Strong leadership, communications, and interpersonal skills
• Extensive experience working on donor funded projects 
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
• Experience working on DHIS2 is an added advantage
• Strong time management skills.
• Good communication skills required – oral and written. 
• Excellent computer skills (Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Internet, E-mail)
• Willing and able to travel frequently to implementation regions, districts, and health facilities.