Remote Nigeria | ₦500,000–₦730,000 Monthly
Notify Health is recruiting a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Officer to support its growing vaccination reminder programmes across Nigeria.
This is a full-time remote position, with Abuja preferred, and is suitable for professionals with hands-on experience in monitoring and evaluation, programme analytics, data management or similar data-driven roles within health and development programmes.
The successful candidate will play an important role in maintaining data quality, reviewing high-volume data submissions, supporting programme evaluation, overseeing digitisation processes and identifying opportunities to make the organisation's monitoring and evaluation systems more efficient.
Job Overview
- Position: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Officer
- Organisation: Notify Health
- Location: Nigeria, Remote
- Preferred Location: Abuja
- Job Type: Full-time
- Contract: 12 months, with possibility of renewal
- Travel: Up to 10%, mainly to implementation sites
- Probation: 6 months
- Compensation: ₦500,000–₦730,000 per month
- Application Deadline: 18 October 2026
About Notify Health
Notify Health is a start-up nonprofit working to improve childhood immunisation outcomes in Nigeria. Its mission is to help ensure that children receive life-saving vaccinations at the appropriate times.
The organisation focuses on a common challenge in immunisation programmes: caregivers may miss vaccination appointments because they forget or are unaware that a child needs to return for another dose.
Notify Health addresses this challenge by sending SMS and automated voice reminders to caregivers in more than 10 Nigerian languages.
According to the organisation, its reminder programme has reached caregivers of more than 50,000 children across three Nigerian states since its founding approximately two and a half years ago.
Notify Health works with local partners and leverages existing government systems and Nigeria's widespread mobile-phone usage to deliver targeted immunisation reminders.
The organisation also works on improving its approach through technology and data, including initiatives involving mobile vaccination outreach, optical character recognition (OCR), WhatsApp chatbots and geospatial data.
About the MEL Officer Role
Data and evidence are central to Notify Health's work. The MEL Officer will help ensure that programme data is collected, processed, analysed and reported accurately.
A substantial part of the role involves hands-on data work. The successful candidate will regularly review submissions from health workers and partner staff, assess data quality, identify errors, determine which information can be used, correct issues and provide feedback.
The role also involves routine audits, data analysis, digitisation quality control and programme evaluation support.
Beyond routine execution, the MEL Officer will be expected to identify inefficient or error-prone processes and recommend improvements. This could include better templates, process changes and automation.
The position is particularly suited to someone who enjoys careful and detailed data work, is comfortable with technology and wants to use evidence to contribute to improved health outcomes for children.
Key Responsibilities
1. Executing the MEL System – 60%
The largest portion of the role focuses on routine monitoring and evaluation activities, including:
- Reviewing data submissions from health workers and field staff.
- Providing clear feedback to improve record-keeping and photo quality.
- Conducting continuous audits of programme and project implementation.
- Producing reports based on monitoring findings.
- Developing thoughtful recommendations from programme data.
- Supporting programme evaluation activities.
- Processing, cleaning and analysing programme data.
2. Facilitating an Accurate Digitisation Process – 20%
The MEL Officer will also be responsible for maintaining quality throughout the digitisation process.
- Reviewing photographs of health records.
- Determining which records should proceed to data entry.
- Identifying records that should be discarded due to quality or usability issues.
- Overseeing data entry activities and ensuring timelines are met.
- Troubleshooting digitisation issues when required.
- Reviewing completed data entries for errors and quality problems.
- Checking records before caregivers are enrolled for vaccination reminders.
- Reviewing and adjudicating data-entry discrepancies.
- Determining the likely causes of discrepancies.
- Producing feedback and reports for the data-entry team.
3. Process Improvement, Training and Learning – 20%
- Travelling to key training days when required.
- Training staff on SurveyCTO data collection and data entry.
- Teaching teams to use Notify Health's forms, templates and processes.
- Contributing MEL findings and lessons to regular programme meetings in implementation states.
- Identifying ways to make M&E processes more efficient.
- Proposing process improvements, automations and template improvements.
- Helping strengthen data systems based on practical experience.
Who Is Notify Health Looking For?
Notify Health is looking for a careful, reliable and detail-oriented professional who can manage a high volume of routine data tasks while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
The ideal candidate should be comfortable identifying unusual patterns or errors in datasets, troubleshooting problems and communicating issues clearly and promptly.
The organisation is also looking for someone who can identify opportunities to improve processes rather than simply following existing procedures.
Applicants should be comfortable working in a start-up environment and should demonstrate a strong interest in data integrity and using evidence to improve health outcomes.
Essential Requirements
- 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, programme analytics or similar data-driven roles in health or development programmes.
- Strong practical spreadsheet skills, particularly Google Sheets, for data management, analysis and reporting.
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to perform repetitive data processes accurately.
- Clear and proactive written and spoken English communication skills.
- Fluency in Nigerian Pidgin.
- Ability to work remotely with a reliable home-office setup, including dependable internet and a laptop or desktop computer.
- Strong alignment with Notify Health's mission and commitment to using data honestly and rigorously.
Preferred Qualifications
Applicants with the following additional experience may be particularly relevant to the role:
- Familiarity with digital data-collection platforms such as SurveyCTO, ODK or KoboToolbox.
- Experience training other people to use data tools.
- Knowledge of additional Nigerian languages, particularly Ebira, Tiv or Fulfulde.
- Experience working within the Nigerian health system.
- Experience working directly with CSOs, health workers and facility-level data.
- Previous immunisation programme experience.
- Proficiency with SQL, Google Data Studio or Google Apps Script.
Salary and Compensation
Notify Health states that it aims to offer fair and competitive compensation aligned with local living costs and candidate experience. The organisation expects most candidates to fall within the stated compensation range, although actual compensation may vary based on location and experience.
Benefits
According to the organisation, benefits include:
- Flexible working arrangements within a remote work environment.
- Significant autonomy in organising day-to-day work.
- Financial support for establishing an effective remote working environment.
- A developmental budget for upskilling and training.
- Competitive annual leave.
- Competitive maternity leave after one year of employment.
Remote Work Arrangement
The position is based in Nigeria and is remote, with Abuja preferred.
Applicants should have a suitable home-office setup with reliable internet access and a laptop or desktop computer.
Although the position is primarily remote, the role includes up to 10% travel, mainly to implementation sites and key training activities.
Contract and Working Hours
- Employment type: Full-time
- Contract duration: 12 months
- Renewal: Possible, subject to satisfactory performance
- Probation: 6 months
- Travel: Up to 10%
Application Process
Notify Health has designed its application process to reduce the amount of time applicants need to spend at the initial stage.
The first stage takes approximately 45–60 minutes and includes an application form and a short 10-minute quiz.
Applicants do not need to submit a cover letter at the first stage.
Candidates who progress further may be asked to complete additional stages, including test tasks and interviews.
Notify Health aims to respond to applicants at each stage within two weeks of the application deadline, although the actual timing may vary depending on the number of applications received.
Notify Health specifically encourages women to apply for this position.
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Application Deadline
Interested candidates should submit their application before the stated deadline.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should complete the official Notify Health application form using the application link below.
The initial application takes approximately 45–60 minutes and includes an application form and a short 10-minute quiz. No cover letter is required at the first stage.
Application Tips
- Review the essential requirements carefully before applying.
- Highlight your hands-on M&E, MEL, programme analytics or data experience clearly.
- Showcase practical experience using Google Sheets or other relevant data tools.
- If you have experience with SurveyCTO, ODK or KoboToolbox, make sure it is clearly stated on your CV.
- Highlight relevant public health, development or Nigerian health-system experience.
- Mention relevant Nigerian language skills where applicable.
- Ensure your internet connection and computer setup are suitable for remote work.
- Be prepared for a short quiz and possible follow-up assessments if shortlisted.
- Answer application questions honestly and accurately.
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