State Health Systems Strengthening Advisor

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in public health, Health Systems Management, Health Economics, Health Informatics, Epidemiology, Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Policy, Development Studies, or a related discipline.
  
• Minimum of 8 – 10 years of progressively responsible experience in public health programme management, health systems strengthening, or family planning programming.
  
• Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance to government health systems in Nigeria.
  
• Experience working with State Ministries of Health, SPHCDAs, and development partners.
  
• Proven experience in health systems strengthening, health financing, policy advocacy, and institutional capacity development.
  

Responsibilities

Health Systems Strengthening

• Provide strategic technical assistance to state governments to strengthen health systems for sustainable family planning service delivery.
  
• Support institutionalization of quality improvement initiatives across supported states.
  
• Strengthen governance and stewardship structures supporting family planning.
  
• Support integration of family planning into state health sector strategic plans, annual operational plans, and routine health system functions.
  

Data Systems Strengthening and Information Use

• Strengthen routine health information systems for family planning across supported states.
  
• Improve the quality, completeness, timeliness, and accuracy of routine family planning data.
  
• Support routine data validation, triangulation, reconciliation, and verification across DHIS2, NHMIS, LMIS, facility registers, and community reporting systems.
  
• Establish and institutionalize state-level data quality assurance mechanisms.
  
• Facilitate routine data review meetings that promote data use for programme improvement.
  

Strengthening Documentation and Service Quality

• Support health facilities to strengthen routine documentation and reporting systems.
  
• Improve the quality and completeness of family planning registers and reporting tools.
  
• Ensure alignment between source documents and reported data.
  
• Conduct supportive supervision visits to improve documentation and reporting practices.
  
• Mentor health workers on proper recording and reporting of DMPA-SC and self-injection services.
  

Government Stewardship, Policy and Domestic Financing

• Provide technical support to states to strengthen governance and stewardship for family planning programmes.
  
• Support the development and implementation of costed family planning operational plans.
  
• Lead evidence-based advocacy to increase state budget allocation for family planning commodities and programme implementation.
  

Capacity Strengthening

• Build the capacity of government counterparts on health systems strengthening, governance, routine health information systems, supportive supervision, programme management, and sustainability, working in collaboration with the Family Planning Specialist on family planning technical capacity-building.
  
• Train and mentor state and LGA teams on data quality assurance, data use, supportive supervision, governance, quality improvement, and programme performance monitoring, while supporting the Family Planning Specialist in the delivery of family planning technical capacity-building initiatives.
  
• Strengthen analytical capacity among state M&E officers and programme managers.