Programme Officer

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;
  

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:

• Line management – build and performance manage an effective and technically fit 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 SMC in assigned LGAs;
  

Technical (20%)

• Support M&E activities, including reporting of SPAQ admin 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;
  
• Harmonisation with other partners; and
  
• Representation especially at the LGA levels.