FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, economic development, civil society, gender, youth, research and technology – creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today’s interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 70 countries and all U.S. states and territories.
We are currently seeking qualified candidates to provide consulting services as:
Job Title: Project Director- RANA
Requisition: 2018200920
Location: Abuja
Job Type: Full time
Duties and Responsibilities
- The Project Director will be responsible for overall coordination of technical, programmatic and financial management responsibilities on the project.
- S/He will be the primary liaison with UNICEF and/or any future funder, government and other high-level partners, providing frequent updates on project performance.
- S/He will manage the day to day activities of the project country office, as well as overall management, coordination, and oversight of the project across states.
- S/He will also work closely with the project team to set the technical vision for the entire project, with specific attention to meeting set goals based on project design and work plan and will also directly oversee the state team leads, technical leads, and program/ finance staff.
- The Project Director will have final responsibility for ensuring that project implementation activities are carried out on time and on budget.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Master’s or Ph.D. in at least one of the following fields: Education with a specialty in Reading and Literacy Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Elementary Teacher Education, Education Policy, Linguistics, Gender or other relevant International Development field with bias towards education, gender and development is required
- At least 10 years of experience in relevant management, supervisory, technical experience working with education programs/projects in a resource-limited setting
- At least 5 of these years must be in a management/leadership position
- At least 5 years of experience in the education sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, either in Nigeria or West Africa
- Experience in education in conflict-affected, alternative, and rural settings
- Fluency in Hausa language is an added advantage.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Required professional proficiency and fluency in written and spoken English
- Preferred proficiency in Hausa is preferred, but not required
- Technical understanding of education issues in conflict-affected, alternative, and rural settings
- Budgeting, financial management, and policies and procedures oversight experience
- Demonstrated public relations and diplomacy skills required
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to build positive local working relationships with local communities, district government officials, UN and where appropriate, donor representatives
Remuneration
The following is a summary of fringe benefits provided by FHI 360 to eligible employees:
Core benefits:
- Comprehensive medical plans (PPOs)
- Dental insurance
- Vision coverage
- Group life and AD&D insurance
- Health savings account
- Long-term disability
- Medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Dependent life insurance
- Business travel insurance
- Supplemental personal accident insurance
- Supplemental disability
- Life insurance
- Paid vacation, sick and parental leave
- 403(b) retirement plan
- Pension plan
Other benefits (will vary depending on work location):
- Public transportation program
- On-site fitness center
- Local credit union membership
- Health and wellness program
- Employee assistance program
- Qualified tuition programs (529 plans)
- Bicycle subsidy
- Legal assistance plan
- Pet insurance
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Senior Technical Officer – Child and Adolescent Health
Requisition: 2018200897
Location: Abuja
Job Type: Full time
Basic Function
- Provides leadership and technical support related to strategies and approaches with special focus on newborn, child and adolescent health programs including integration of comprehensive HIV care and treatment into mainstream health services at SIDHAS-supported treatment locations.
Duties and Responsibilities
- With the Associate Director RMNCH, Associate Director Care & Treatment, state Senior Technical Officers and other relevant staff, coordinates the design and implementation of components related newborn, child and adolescent health including comprehensive HIV care, treatment and support in paediatric, adolescent and adult populations.
- With the Associate Director, RMNCH & Associate Director, Care and Treatment, leads capacity building efforts in relation to newborn, child and adolescent health to field programs including paediatric, adolescent and adult HIV/AIDS
- With Associate Director RMNCH & Associate Director, Care and Treatment, develops guidelines, tools and recommendations related to the implementation and evaluation of health programs newborn, child and adolescent populations. Including clinical management and monitoring of HIV/AIDS in paediatric, adolescent and adult populations
- Contributes to development of lessons learned from programs and projects related newborn, child and adolescent populations and apply these lessons to modify existing program and improve the design of new programs
- Provides technical assistance to states in the facility level implementation of quality improvement initiatives and approaches aimed at ensuring continuous quality improvement for newborn, child and adolescent health including HIV care and treatment.
- Supports the country office team in the use of data for analysis to guide implementation approaches for program improvement at state and facility levels.
- Represents FHI 360/Nigeria to donors and government officials on issues of newborn, child and adolescent health
- Remains informed on current programs in the field of child and adolescent health by reviewing current literature and stay alert to any implication of such experience and research for department activities.
- Ensures sustained linkages at the technical, functional and structural levels with other RMNCH components (reproductive health, maternal health) and SIDHAS’ OVC program.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications and Requirements
- MB.BS/MD with 3 to 5 years of progressive relevant experience in clinical care, with a sound understanding of the delivery of newborn, child and adolescent health programs including integrated HIV/AIDS programs in resource constrained settings.
- Possession of a Masters’ degree in Public or Maternal and Child Health or post graduate fellowship in Paediatrics is an advantage.
- Experience in project development with proven experience in the planning and implementation of newborn, adolescent or child health programs is required.
- Familiarity with Nigerian public-sector health systems, non-governmental organizations and community based organizations is highly desirable.
Knowledge, Skills & Attributes:
- Knowledge of health and development programs in developing countries in general and Nigeria specifically.
- Clinical management and training experience and ability to understand full range of issues newborn, child and adolescent health including comprehensive management of HIV/AIDS
- Sensitivity to cultural differences and understanding of the social, political and ethical issues surrounding HIV infections
- Ability to work well with others and to develop and maintain compatibility among project staff, subcontractors, consultants and recipients of assistance.
- Ability to manage tight deadlines and deliver high volumes of work with minimal supervision.
- Excellent written and spoken communication and computer skills.
- Ability to travel within at least Nigeria 25% of the time.
Remuneration
The following is a summary of fringe benefits provided by FHI 360 to eligible employees:
Core benefits:
- Comprehensive medical plans (PPOs)
- Dental insurance
- Vision coverage
- Group life and AD&D insurance
- Health savings account
- Long-term disability
- Medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Dependent life insurance
- Business travel insurance
- Supplemental personal accident insurance
- Supplemental disability
- Life insurance
- Paid vacation, sick and parental leave
- 403(b) retirement plan
- Pension plan
Other benefits (will vary depending on work location):
- Public transportation program
- On-site fitness center
- Local credit union membership
- Health and wellness program
- Employee assistance program
- Qualified tuition programs (529 plans)
- Bicycle subsidy
- Legal assistance plan
- Pet insurance
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Note: The above job description summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.
Job Title: Protection/GBV Consultant
Location: Nigeria
Description
The humanitarian situation remains critical in northeast Nigeria, with an estimated seven million people in need of humanitarian assistance, and more than 1.7 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). FHI 360 has been working in Nigeria for over 30 years and for 15 months, has been implementing humanitarian response activities in the health, nutrition, protection and WASH sectors with a substantial on-the-ground presence in Maiduguri, Dikwa, Ngala and Banki. FHI 360 is now looking to conduct rapid assessment of the integrated project based on established methodology within the organization.
The program technical and quality assessment of Integrated Humanitarian Assistance to Northeast Nigeria (IHANN) is being carried out by a team of local and HQ-based FHI 360 staff and is looking for a protection in emergencies expert to join the team and lead the assessment of the protection sector activities.
The expected duration for this consultancy is four weeks; of which two weeks will be in northeast Nigeria.
Consultant Scope of Work
- The consultant’s primary responsibility will be to create an assessment tool, in line with a template that will be provided, and carry out the rapid assessment of the protection sector within the integrated project in northeast Nigeria. Under the supervision of the Crisis Response Coordinator, the Protection/GBV Consultant will lay the groundwork for the current and future FHI 360 internal quality assurance assessments of protection programming in humanitarian crises.
Specific Tasks
Remote (Approximately 2 weeks):
- Review the existing tool template and design the protection assessment tool based on global protection standards, ensuring relevancy according to the provided project documents
- Output: finalized quality assessment tool for Protection (GBV and CP) programming
- Attend remote meetings with assessment team to finalize the assessment agenda
- Write the protection section of the assessment report based on the findings from the tool utilized in-country; includes detailed recommendations and action planning
Northeast Nigeria (2 consecutive weeks):
- Attend collaboration meetings with the assessment team
- Carry out assessment of the protection (GBV) project utilizing the created tool and in collaboration with field-based counterpart
- Conduct interviews with stakeholders, document reviews and field visits as required for the evaluation process
- In collaboration with field-based counterpart, draft a targeted improvement plan to address key 3-5 priority issues
- Contribute to in-country debrief of assessment findings and recommendations
Deliverables:
- Protection programming quality assessment tool based on the FHI 360 standard
- Completed assessment of FHI 360’s protection sector within the IHANN project
- Final assessment report for the protection domain, utilizing the FHI 360 methodology and done in collaboration with the integrated assessment team
Qualifications
- Advanced University degree, preferably in the Social Sciences, Political Science, Law or other relevant field
- Proven expertise in protection, GBV in emergencies, including a demonstrated understanding of national and global protection standards including the IASC GBV guideline
- Experience in case management
- Further knowledge of child protection in emergencies an asset
- Minimum of 8 years relevant protection experience in emergency contexts and IDP settings at national or international NGOs in the field of protection, gender-based violence and/or child protection; field experience is essential.
- Prior experience in assessments or evaluations of protection programs
- Willingness to work with a team and travel within northeast Nigeria for a 2-week time period in second half of June 2018
- Has sensitivity to cultural diversity and understanding of the political, contextual, and ethical issues in assigned areas.
- Articulate and professional and able to communicate in a clear, positive fashion with clients and staff.
- Must be able to read, write, and speak fluent English.
Evaluation Criteria
Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the following criteria:
- Demonstrated understanding of gender-based violence in emergencies and at least 2 of the following additional areas: child protection, integrated programming, protection case management, humanitarian assistance project evaluations, northeast Nigeria context
- Available within the timeframe and for the duration required
- Quality of sample provided
- Years of relevant experience
- Best value
Disclaimers and FHI 360 Protection Clauses:
- FHI 360 may cancel the solicitation and not award
- FHI 360 may reject any or all responses received
- Issuance of the solicitation does not constitute an award commitment by FHI 360
- FHI 360 reserves the right to disqualify any offer based on failure of the offeror to follow solicitation instructions
- FHI 360 will not compensate any offeror for responding to solicitation
- FHI 360 reserves the right to issue award based on initial evaluation of offers without further discussion
- FHI 360 may choose to award only part of the activities in the solicitation, or issue multiple awards based on the solicitation activities
- FHI 360 reserves the right to waive minor proposal deficiencies that can be corrected prior to award determination to promote competition
- FHI 360 will be contacting each offeror to confirm contact person, address and that bid was submitted for this solicitation
Deadline: 11th May, 2018.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should submit the below documents to “Jonathan Banasihan, Program Assistant, West Africa and Middle East Regional Office” electronically via: jbanasihan@fhi360.org
Documents includes:
- Current CV
- Sample of similarly produced work
- Cover letter/Letter of Interest.
- Completed FHI 360 Biodata Form
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