Senior Country Programmes Manager

Qualifications and Experience:

• Postgraduate qualification in international development, public health, business administration, project management or similar.
  
• Extensive experience in a similar role
  
• Significant hands-on experience in project management at a senior level or management of large or multi-country programmes ideally in low- or middle-income countries
  
• Excellent experience with managing operational units in large international organisations.
  
• Experience managing grants from institutional funders such as the GFATM, USAID or FCDO or foundations such as the BMGF.
  

Programme management (50%)

• Develop and implement systems and processes for work planning, work plan review, monitoring and reporting ensuring that different donor grants are integrated into an overall integrated work plan for the country office and demonstrate alignment with Malaria Consortium Country Strategy.
  
• Support PMs to ensure the development of appropriate work plans for each level in each of the projects, such as annual, quarterly, monthly operational / activity plans and ensure these are linked to the forecast both in content and timing.
  
• Support PMs to ensure programmes and projects are implemented as planned and all Malaria Consortium systems to ensure key performance measures (BVA, QPA etc) are complied with.
  

Strategic planning and strategy implementation (10%)

• Provide strategic planning support to the West and Central Africa Programmes Director with focus on ensuring the relevance of Malaria Consortium’s role in Nigeria and contributes to the development, implementation, and M&E of Malaria Consortium’s country strategy.
  
• Support the West and Central Africa Programmes Director in identifying new business development opportunities which will include identifying areas of interest and identifying potential partnerships.
  
• Ensure regular communications are maintained between the different functions particularly between field teams, and the Abuja office.
  

Financial planning and management (10%)

• Work with the Country Finance Manager (CFM), PMs and Operations team to design roll-out systems that ensure the link of programme / project planning with Malaria Consortium annual budgeting and forecasting cycle.
  
• Work with WCA Programmes Director to monitor that Programme / Project Managers are efficiently and accurately managing their budgets and resources within allowable line-item flexibility and there is accountability of resources.
  
• Work with the Country Finance Manager (CFM) to monitor expenditure and budget compliance on a regular basis, report any concerns to the WCAPD and develop plans to mitigate any under or over expenditure at grant level.
  

Malaria and Public Health Nigeria Ltd/Gte (15%)

• Work with WCA Programmes Director to oversee effective management and operations of Malaria and Public Health Nigeria Ltd/Gte activities.
  
• Be a member of a management board of Malaria and Public Health Nigeria Ltd/Gte and take the lead in implementing management actions.
  
• Maintain and track progress in objectives of MPH Nigeria Ltd/Gte to ensure optimal value for its key stakeholders.
  

Human Resource Management and Capacity development (15%)

• Contribute to recruitment and selection of competent staffing for programme and projects.
  
• Be an effective line manager and mentor, using performance-based management approaches.
  
• Act as safeguarding focal point for Malaria Consortium NG office and work with HR Manager and Safeguarding (FG) Advisor to ensure Malaria Consortium safeguarding policies are rolled out and complied with in MC NG office.