Required Qualifications

• Education: Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Public Health, Health Management, Health Economics, or a related social science field.
  
• Experience: Minimum 5–7 years of experience in health system planning and management.
  
• Proven record in developing and costing AOPs at the sub-national level in Nigeria.
  
• Experience facilitating multi-stakeholder workshops and capacity-building sessions.
  
• Skills: Proficiency in MS Excel (for costing) and Word; strong analytical and report-writing skills.
  
• Preferred Experience in working with the web-based AOP tool.
  

• Desk Review: Review existing planning documents, templates, National Guidelines (e.g. NPHCDA), and previous AOP performance reports.
  
• Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitate consultative meetings and workshops with the State Ministry of Health (SMoH), State Primary
  
• Health Care Board (SPHCB), and other relevant MDAs and partners.
  
• Situation Analysis: Conduct a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) and a review of the previous year's implementation gaps.
  

• Plan Development:
  

  o Support the definition of specific objectives, targets, and milestones.
  

  o Collate sub-state (LGA) health plans to feed into the harmonized state-level plan.
  

  o Draft activities across key pillars like governance, health financing, and service delivery.
  

• Costing: Lead the financial valuation of all planned activities using established national costing tools or templates.
  
• M&E Framework: Develop a Monitoring