New Job Positions at Jhpiego Nigeria

Location: Abuja

Responsibilities

• The Malaria Technical Advisor will promote the uptake of IPTp-SP as part of a comprehensive package of support for pregnant women to control malaria in pregnancy, participate in district MIP technical advisory groups, and improving databases that monitor MIP achievements.
• This position will ensure the technical and methodological soundness of activities and, in collaboration with the project team and partners, support the design of service delivery strategies, based on sound and current scientific evidence.
• S/he will provide technical support to ensure that activities are designed and implemented with high quality and meet project targets.
• Mentor and build capacity of health workers, in particular CHWs. Address any technical issues at national, TWG and local levels, including advocacy for continued prioritisation of MiP and increased uptake of lPTp-SP.
• Responsible for ensuring the technical integrity of project interventions. Develop low-cost job aids and tools that reflect practical solutions to enable District Health Management Team scale-up. Provide technical leadership to support expanded coverage and scale-up of MiP interventions as a core component of focused ANC.
• Emphasize intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy while reinforcing the multiple interventions associated with ANC (HIV counselling and testing, ITN use, effective case management of pregnant women with signs and symptoms of malaria, and administration of low-dose folic acid).
• S/he will ensure timely and cost-effective project implementation, reporting of activities.

Additional Information
All staff members of Jhpiego, regardless of the level of their responsibilities are expected to:

• Model the mission and values stated above
• Participate in the business development processes
• Contribute to the knowledge sharing and transfer process
• Make responsible decisions that result in time and cost containment and clear accountability
• Participate in multiple teams, adopt team spirit, take responsibility for action items assigned nd provide feedback as needed
• Multitask, be able to manage competing priorities and be able to prioritize in order to meet program and/or organizational objectives

Required Qualifications

• A medical degree (Doctor or Nursing) or Masters in Public Health.
• At least 8 years’ experience applying malaria in pregnancy programs and or community malaria programs.
• At least 5 years’ experience in managing $1OM per year in donor-funded projects and in the design and implementation of overseas health projects; preferably in the East and Southern Africa.
• Qualification as a “master trainer”; experience training health workers on clinical aspects related to malaria case management.
• Skill in at least two or more of the following technical areas: strengthening service delivery programs, training, performance and quality improvement, monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience with a mix of practical technical skills in malaria necessary for strengthening malaria service delivery at the provincial, clinical and community- level,
• The ability to liaise with senior MOH officials and dignitaries, executives of NGOs, FBOs, CBOs, the for-profit business community, and senior members of the donor community.
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of Nigeria healthcare system, particularly. the public health system, experience living arid working in Nigeria preferred.
• Demonstrable analytical skills and experiences to identify and evaluate best practices and state-of-the-art approaches to be utilized by the project.
• Strong oral and written communication and presentations skills in English.
• Awareness of, sensitivity to, and experience in working in multiple socio-economic settings and with multi-cultural staff and groups.
• Ability to travel nationally.

Location: Abuja

Summary

• The Project Director will have the overall responsibility for leadership and management of and reporting on the recipients activities, making key decisions and solving problems in short time frames while ensuring operational and program quality and integrity.
• This includes ensuring effective organizational management and communication interacting with other projects, Ministry of Health, District Health Management Teams (DHMT5), and national and district stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and strategic direction to ensure programmatic and financial integrity of project and to achieve rapid and sustained project goals, objectives and targets
• Ensure compliance with the project award results and the oversight of project activities to achieve the stated goal, outcomes and outputs
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships and alliances with the Nigeria Ministry of Health, District Health Management Teams, as well as other malaria
• pregnancy implementing partners, private sector partners and other key stakeholders in Nigeria to maximize resources and avoid duplication of effort
• Collaborate closely with WHO and Malaria Medicines Venture to ensure streamlined implementation to achieve project goal, outcomes and outputs
• Represent Jhpiego’s interests and present progress, achievements and lessons learned to key Nigerian stakeholders and implementing partners in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations
• Provide technical leadership in the design, analysis, and synthesis of interventions
• Ensure the quality and sustainability of interventions particularly in the area coverage of lPTp for pregnant women and capacity building
• Directly implement the project sustainability plan, working closely with Global Fund, PMI, WHO, UNICEF, Ministry of Health and other key counterparts
• Drive efforts to establish and/or strengthen the national M1P technical advisory group to help maintain momentum and support for the prioritization of MiP and in particular preventive chemotherapy for pregnant women, at community level.
• Write and/or review technical components of materials and publications related to integrated health and its development
• Work with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) staff to generate and document data; b) conduct data analysis; c) document results to guide future implementation; and d) any necessary course corrections.
• Ensure compliance with UNITAID operational policies and regulations

Additional Information
All staff members of Jhpiego, regardless of the level of their responsibilities are expected to:

• Model the mission and values stated above
• Participate in the business development processes
• Contribute to the knowledge sharing and transfer process
• Make responsible decisions that result in time and cost containment and clear accountability
• Participate in multiple teams, adopt team spirit, take responsibility for action items assigned nd provide feedback as needed
• Multitask, be able to manage competing priorities and be able to prioritize in order to meet program and/or organizational objectives

Required Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Public Health, Health Administration, International health or a related field; MD preferred.
• 15+ years’ experience successfully managing large, multi-year international health sector development projects (approximately $10M per year> that have implemented successful activities in areas such as maternal, newborn and child health, malaria prevention, care and treatment and health systems strengthening.
• Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and sustain interpersonal and professional relationships with host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, PVOs, the private sector and other donors.
• In-depth knowledge of donor projects, regulations, compliance and reporting.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Ability to travel nationally.

Remuneration