State Programme and Data Coordinator at CeNHRI – Ekiti

Centre for Newborn Health Research and Innovation (CeNHRI) is recruiting a State Programme and Data Coordinator for its health-facility activities in Ekiti State. The role combines facility implementation, stakeholder coordination, routine monitoring and the practical use of programme data to improve maternal and newborn care.

Key responsibilities

• Translate approved activities into facility schedules, readiness checks, visit plans and follow-up trackers, coordinating with technical teams and facility focal persons.
• Maintain productive relationships with clinical teams, facility leaders, state health stakeholders and the programme management office.
• Oversee routine activity monitoring and facility reporting, orient focal persons on agreed indicators and check the completeness and accuracy of submissions.
• Verify facility information against source records, investigate discrepancies and maintain secure, organised state programme datasets.
• Analyse trends, reporting gaps and facility performance; prepare summaries, charts and review presentations that guide improvement actions.
• Track agreed actions, supervise delegated tasks assigned to the state assistant and escalate technical, operational and data-quality issues appropriately.
• Report implementation progress to CeNHRI’s programme and monitoring teams and coordinate relevant updates with the PMO state representative.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional qualification in Public Health, Nursing, Midwifery, Medicine, Health Information Management, Epidemiology or another relevant health field.
• At least four years of relevant experience supporting health programmes across multiple facilities or sites, including maternal, newborn or child health initiatives.
• Practical ability to collect, manage, verify, analyse and interpret routine facility or programme data, with strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience engaging facility managers, clinical teams and government health structures.
• Strong organisation, reporting, stakeholder communication and judgement when handling programme risks and escalation.
• Knowledge of routine health-information and digital data-collection systems; fluency in English is required. An applicable local language is an advantage.
• Additional training in monitoring and evaluation, data analysis, project coordination or maternal and newborn health, and a master’s degree, are advantages.

Reporting relationship

The position reports to the Programme Manager and, in some cases, the Implementation Research and Learning Lead. It works with programme partners, CeNHRI technical leads and participating facilities.