Person specificationQualifications and experience:
Essential:
- Training in Nursing or Public Health;
- Five years’ experience of working in the Public Health sector;
- Experience in programme management at the LGA/state level;
- Excellent project planning, management and monitoring & evaluation skills.
- Experience managing project budgets;
- Experience in using digital data collection tools in SMC campaigns and other health programmes;
- Some practical experience in Health Information and Disease Surveillance Systems, interoperability, and international standards; open Global Health Information System software and open data sources, such as, but not limited to, DHIS2, ODK, KoboCollect;
- Experience working at the LGA and community levels;
- Experience working on campaign style interventions (delivery of integrated interventions or social mobilization and SMC would be an added advantage).
Work-based skills and competencies:
Essential
- Good understanding of the Nigeria health system;
- Understanding of communication for behaviour change and social mobilisation;
- Team player and demonstrated ability to work within a team as well as individually;
- Ability to travel to LGAs outside of state capital at least 80% of the time;
- Ability to perform under pressure;
- Excellent communication skills in English and the dominant local language in assigned state;
- Evidence of being resident in state of assignment.
- The job purpose is to work with State Programme Manager (SPM) to effectively manage project activities and resources.
- Top provide leadership and stewardship to the project team and maintain collaborative links with the project’s key stakeholders at the LGA level.
Scope of Work
- The project officer will support the SPM in the implementation of the MDA-AZM project across the state.
- S/he will work with LGA Field Assistants and will be responsible for liaising with the focal persons at the Local Government Level.
Key Working Relationships:
- The PO would be line managed by the SPM and would work with the LGA Field Assistants in-charge of the assigned LGAs (presumably within a specific senatorial zone of a state).
- S/he would also maintain relationships with the country office departments, including Finance and Logistics.
- Key external relationships would be with staff at the LGA and State Malaria Elimination Programme (SMEP), LGA health staff and leading community members and gatekeepers.
- S/he would lead micro-planning, training and coordination, through drug administration and supportive supervision, to reporting of activities at the LGA level.
- S/he would maintain close communication with stakeholders and influential persons in the assigned LGAs through the agreed frameworks.
Key Accountabilities
Programme Management (70%):
Support the SPM and the state management team to lead activities for smooth programme management in the assigned LGAs in the following areas:
- Liaise and work with the SMC project team in the assigned LGAs;
- Be conversant with and guided by Malaria Consortium, policies, guidelines and the SMC Handbook towards the delivery of MDA-AZM in assigned LGAs;
- Planning (microplanning, selection of implementers at the local levels, training, database finalization, last mile distribution, MDA-AZM and reverse logistics);
- Engagement of stakeholders including government, communities and beneficiaries;
- Implementation (MDA-AZM) including QA and innovations, including the use of technology;
- General management including security, HR including line management, risk management, work planning and budgeting, VFM, optimization of grant, etc.;
- Risk Free operations including ensuring that all staff comply with MC values and start-to-finish (SFG) policies; and
- Coordination with other levels of government and internally, all MC functions.
Technical (20%):
- Support M&E activities, including reporting of MDA-AZM and lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS); and
- Support programme review including end of cycle (EoC) reviews, end of round (EoR) reviews and EoR coverage survey.
Representations & Knowledge Management (10%):
- Lesson identification and use including adaptive management;
- Harmonization with other partners; and
- Representation especially at the LGA levels.