Mid-level Jobs in Kaduna, Nigeria

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Malaria Consortium

Project Officer

Kaduna, Nigeria

Compovine Technologies Limited

Marketing Officer - Kaduna

Kaduna, Nigeria

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TB / HIV Technical Assistant - Kaduna

Kaduna, Nigeria

KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation

Account Assistant - Kaduna

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Olam International Limited

Hatchery Manager

Kaduna, Nigeria

Lington & Bernie Consulting Limited

Direct Sales Agent - Kaduna South

Kaduna, Nigeria

Lington & Bernie Consulting Limited

Direct Sales Agent - Kaduna

Kaduna, Nigeria

Philips Outsourcing

Business Development Manager

Kaduna, Nigeria

Pause Factory Resources Limited

Procurement Manager

Kaduna, Nigeria

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Pause Factory Resources Limited

CLOSED

General Manager

Kaduna, Nigeria

Project Officer

Closing: Jun 22, 2024

14 days remaining

Published: Jun 7, 2024 (1 day ago)

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Person specification
Qualifications 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.
Responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications 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.

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