Senior Programme Officer

Qualifications and Experience:

Essential

• 6 years post-graduation with MBBS or MBChB certificate
  
• Postgraduate Master’s degree in Public Health, Health Policy, Epidemiology
  
• Experience of middle-level participation in donor-funded public health-related projects
  
• Excellent project planning, management and monitoring & evaluation skills
  
• Experience managing programme / project budgets
  
• Excellent written and spoken English
  

Project management (60%)

• Support the Project Manager & project team to implement activities for smooth programme management in the country office and Kano state, while tracking the timely implementation of the work plans, ensuring high quality outputs and taking corrective action where needed
  
• Support regularly reports on project progress in line with MC’s and funders’ reporting requirements
  
• To support the planning & assignment of human resources to the various project components, including training & mobilisation of field staff and consultants, and allocate & harmonisation of technical assistance.
  
• Support knowledge management for the project working closely with the advocacy, communication and engagement manager and project teams to ensure the documentation of project activities and ensure implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities, while ensuring key learnings are archived and available for easy access and use for decision making
  

Technical contributions (30%)

• Support the Project manager in the ensuring the roll-out of project service delivery activities meeting international standard of quality.
  
• Lesson identification, documentation of evidence and best practices (including adaptive management) that are related to the programme.
  
• Support the Project manager in the development of research and policy documents that showcases the key learnings from the project.
  

Representation (10%)

• Work with the Public Health Specialist to participate in national level meetings and workshops to represent Malaria Consortium at programmatic and coordination events.