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;
  
• 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 interventions or social mobilization and SMC would be an added advantage).
  

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.
  
• Planning (microplanning, selection of implementers at the local levels, training, database finalization, last mile distribution, SPAQ admin and reverse logistics);
  
• Engagement of stakeholders including government, communities and beneficiaries.
  
• Implementation (SPAQ admin) including QA and innovations, including the use of technology.
  

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.