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 : MERL Advisor

• Provide technical assistance to health facilities in the application of tools, aggregating and reporting 
• Oversee data entry into database (DHIS2), conduct data cleaning exercises, and conduct analysis on the dataset
• Maintain database, creating backups and export files
• Prepare data for program use, including preparing reports or presentations, giving feedback, overseeing data management, and other support to the data management process as needed
• Provide technical input into program evaluation or research projects and oversee implementation
• Generate and contribute to quarterly and annual reports 
• Coordinate research activities with the Ministry of Health/Ghana Health Service 

Required Skills or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics/Demography or any relevant qualification is required 
• At least 5 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation
• Knowledge of Government of Ghana’s health systems structure, interventions and priorities
• Excellent writing and verbal communication.
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Demonstrated experience contributing to the management and coordination of a donor-funded initiative
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
• Excellent computer skills (Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Internet, E-mail)
• Experience working on DHIS2 is an added advantage
• Ability and willingness to travel to project implementation sites