Required Qualifications

• Degree in Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, Health Management, Social Sciences, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
  
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience supporting public health program implementation, preferably in maternal and newborn health, reproductive health, quality improvement, or health systems strengthening.
  
• Strong familiarity with Nigeria’s public health system architecture, including federal, state, LGA, and facility implementation structures.
  
• Demonstrated experience working with government institutions such as FMoH, state ministries of health, SPHCDAs, and related technical bodies.
  
• Proven experience coordinating donor-funded health programs with multiple stakeholders.
  
• Experience supporting implementation of facility-based interventions, health workforce capacity strengthening, mentorship programs, or service quality improvement initiatives.
  

• Support day-to-day coordination for implementation of maternal and newborn health activities related to statewide PPH scale-up.
  
• Support operational rollout of the E-MOTIVE care bundle across supported PHCs and secondary facilities in Kebbi State.
  
• Assist in translating approved implementation strategies into actionable field-level activities with clear timelines and deliverables.
  
• Facilitate implementation across national, state, LGA, facility, and partner structures to ensure alignment and execution.
  
• Support identification of implementation gaps and opportunities for program refinement.
  

Planning, Budgeting, and Operational Support

• Support preparation, implementation, and routine tracking of detailed work plans, activity schedules, procurement plans, and program budgets.
  
• Monitor implementation progress against milestones and identify operational bottlenecks requiring corrective action.
  
• Work with finance, procurement, logistics, and technical teams to ensure timely availability of inputs required for implementation.
  

Capacity Building and Technical Support

• Coordinate capacity-building activities including trainings, low-dose high-frequency mentoring, supportive supervision, peer learning exchanges, webinars, and technical learning sessions.
  
• Support implementation of provider mentoring and facility quality improvement activities focused on PPH prevention and management.
  
• Assist technical teams in developing and deploying practical implementation tools, job aids, SOPs, technical briefs, and learning resources.
  

Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Management

• Liaise closely with Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kebbi State Ministry of Health, Kebbi SPHCDA , BHCPF coordination platforms, professional associations (e.g., SOGON, NANNM, community health professional bodies), donors and development partners, implementing organizations
  
• Support stakeholder coordination meetings, technical working group engagements, advocacy discussions, and policy alignment processes.
  
• Maintain productive working relationships with government and partner stakeholders to facilitate implementation and sustainability.
  

Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Reporting and Knowledge management

Under the guidance of the senior M&E advisor:

• Support routine monitoring of project indicators, implementation milestones, commodity uptake, provider performance, and facility readiness.
  
• Work with M&E teams to support data collection, data quality checks, dashboard tracking, analysis, and reporting.
  
• Assist in documenting implementation progress, lessons learned, bottlenecks, best practices, and adaptive management decisions.