Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Officer
Nigeria, Remote, Abuja preferred
About Notify Health
Notify Health is a start-up nonprofit with a big mission: to ensure all Nigerian children receive life-saving immunizations. Up to half of missed vaccinations happen simply because caregivers forget or don’t realize they need to return. We’re here to change that! We send SMS and automated voice calls in over 10 Nigerian languages to help caregivers remember and track vital vaccination appointments.
Since we were founded 2.5 years ago, we have sent immunization reminders to caregivers of over 50,000 children in three Nigerian states. Our solution is highly impactful, scalable, and cost-effective, leveraging existing government systems and Nigeria’s widespread mobile phone use. In collaboration with local partners, we collect details like a child’s name, birth date, and caregiver’s phone number, then send timely, targeted immunization reminders through our mass messaging system. Evidence of our impact has been promising: in our pilot, timely vaccination coverage was up to 24 percentage points higher for children whose parents received our reminders. With support from GiveWell, a leading charity evaluator, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, we are growing fast and aim to expand to 10 or more states in the coming years.
The team at Notify Health moves quickly, learns constantly, and cares deeply about impact. We are always looking to improve our model with new tools and approaches, like mobile vaccination outreach, OCR, WhatsApp chatbots, and geospatial data. We are not afraid to pivot our strategy if the evidence shows that it is the highest impact route. We’re looking for someone who shares our energy and drive to tackle undervaccination in Nigeria and beyond.
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.
Application Deadline
Please apply by the 18th of October 2026.
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.
Hours: Full time
Further Details and How to Apply
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.