Professional experience

Roles, responsibilities and contributions

Described as Jeremiah's professional experience across humanitarian and development programmes.

ActionAid Nigeria

Team Lead — Monitoring and Accountability Project

October 2024 – March 2026

Led project implementation across Bursari, Bade and Machina LGAs, covering monitoring, accountability, stakeholder engagement, data validation and supervision of MERL field staff.

Selected contributions

  • Led implementation of monitoring and accountability activities.
  • Supported compliance with MERL frameworks and reporting standards.
  • Conducted spot checks and data validation.
  • Supported stakeholder engagement.
  • Supervised MERL field staff.
  • Oversaw data collection tool design and deployment.
  • Generated actionable insights from programme information.

ActionAid Nigeria

Programme Field Officer — Social Cohesion, Peacebuilding & Accountability

August 2022 – September 2024

Selected contributions

  • Developed and deployed tools collecting information on more than 3,000 beneficiaries.
  • Verified 4,565 beneficiaries using ODK.
  • Supervised distribution of more than 12,000 tokens.
  • Designed and facilitated training for youth groups, peace clubs and complaint committees.
  • Managed more than 4,000 complaints and feedback cases.
  • Produced 17 monthly narrative reports and 20+ training reports.
  • Line-managed 20 programme assistants.

ActionAid Nigeria / Nigeria Humanitarian Fund

Field Support Consultant

January – July 2022

Supported a nutrition programme in Bursari LGA.

Selected contributions

  • Provided technical leadership for baseline data collection.
  • Trained 60 community nutrition mobilizers.
  • Supported enrolment of more than 2,165 children under five.
  • Supported enrolment of 435 pregnant and lactating women.
  • Facilitated mid-term evaluation data collection.
  • Supported 89% project implementation.

ActionAid Nigeria / World Food Programme

Programme Support

February – December 2021

Supported implementation of WFP programming in Bursari, Yobe State.

Selected contributions

  • Led a team targeting more than 51,000 beneficiaries.
  • Supported beneficiary registration and distribution.
  • Established targeting and project management committees.
  • Supported seven consecutive months of beneficiary service.
  • Established complaint and feedback mechanisms at four distribution points.
  • Trained more than 40 skills workers on programme implementation.

ActionAid Nigeria

Monitoring & Evaluation Officer / Consultant — HDP Nexus

November 2020 – January 2021

Supported monitoring, evaluation and accountability systems for the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus project across Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Abuja.

Selected contributions

  • Organized three high-level consultative meetings.
  • Conducted monitoring visits.
  • Produced monthly and activity reports.
  • Supported targeting and selection of approximately 32,000 beneficiaries in Bursari.
  • Supported established M&E systems.

ActionAid Nigeria

MIS Training Consultant

February 2020

Trained newly recruited volunteers on management information systems, M&E tools, processes and practices.

ActionAid Nigeria

Impact Assessment & Shared Learning Volunteer

November 2018 – October 2019

Selected contributions

  • Supported management of ActionAid's information system.
  • Conducted DHIS2 training for more than 50 staff and partners.
  • Created more than 50 user accounts.
  • Supported data entry and reporting tools.
  • Supported staff and partners using the management information system.

Professional journey

From technology to development impact

  1. 2017

    Computer Engineering

    • Bachelor of Engineering
    • University of Maiduguri
  2. 2018–2019

    Data, MIS & Impact Assessment

    • DHIS2
    • Management information systems
    • Data entry
    • Reporting
    • Impact assessment
  3. 2020

    M&E & MIS Consulting

    • Monitoring systems
    • MIS training
    • M&E tools
    • HDP Nexus
  4. 2021

    Humanitarian Programme Support

    • Targeting
    • Registration
    • Food distribution
    • Community feedback
    • 51,000+ beneficiaries
  5. 2022

    Humanitarian Research & Nutrition

    • Baseline
    • Midline
    • Data collection
    • Community mobilization
  6. 2022–2024

    Peacebuilding, Accountability & Social Cohesion

    • Youth leadership
    • Peace clubs
    • Community structures
    • Feedback mechanisms
    • Digital verification
  7. 2024–2026

    Monitoring, Accountability & Team Leadership

    • MERL
    • Data quality
    • Stakeholder engagement
    • Field supervision
    • Programme leadership
  8. Next

    Consulting • Training • Data • Leadership

    Education & training

    Qualifications

    Education

    • Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Engineering

      University of Maiduguri · 2017

      Second Class Upper

    • Post-Graduate Degree — Public Health Education

      Umar Suleiman College of Education, Gashua · 2022

    Selected professional training

    • Data Analytics

      Insight & Strategy Consulting Ltd · 2024

      Advanced Excel | Power BI | SQL

    • Training of Trainers — Youth Leadership in Emergencies

      ActionAid Global Platform, Kenya · 2023

    • Training of Trainers — Youth Leadership in Emergencies

      MS-TCDC, Tanzania · 2026

    • Monitoring Essentials

      World Food Programme · 2022/2023

    • Leadership, Goal Setting & Coaching

      AR Peterson Consulting · 2023

    • DHIS2 Administration & Data Management

      Professional training · 2019

    Better systems. Better evidence. Better decisions.

    Development challenges are rarely solved by data alone. They require people who understand the problem, systems that work, evidence that can be trusted and the willingness to learn and improve.

    Jeremiah Iyasco

    Development • Data • Leadership