Programme Officer

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Temporary / Full Time

Job purpose

• The job purpose is to work with the State Programme Manager (SPM) to effectively manage project activities and resources, provide leadership and stewardship to the project team, and maintain collaborative links with the project’s key stakeholders at the LGA level.

Scope of work

• The Programme Officer (PO), while reporting to the State Programme Officer (SPM) and based at the state office, will line-manage the LGA Field Assistants within his area of coverage

Key working relationships:

• The PO would be line managed by the SPM and would line manage the LGA Field Assistants in charge of the assigned LGAs (presumably within a specific senatorial zone of a state).
• S/he would maintain close communication with stakeholders and influential persons in the assigned LGAs through the agreed frameworks.
• S/he would lead micro-planning, training, and coordination, through drug administration and supportive supervision, to reporting of activities at the LGA level.
• S/he would also maintain relationships with the country office departments, including Finance and Logistics. Key external relationships would be with staff at the LGA and State Malaria Elimination Programme (SMEP), LGA health staff, and leading community members and gatekeepers.

Key accountabilities
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:
  • Engagement of stakeholders, including government, communities, and beneficiaries;
  • Line management – build and performance manage an effective and technically fit SMC project team in the assigned LGAs;
  • Planning (microplanning, selection of implementers at the local levels, training, database finalization, last mile distribution, SPAQ admin, and reverse logistics);
  • Be conversant with and guided by Malaria Consortium policies, guidelines, and the SMC Handbook towards the delivery of SMC in assigned LGAs;
  • Risk-free operations, including ensuring that all staff comply with MC values and start-to-finish (SFG) policies; and
  • General management including security, HR including line management, risk management, work planning and budgeting, VFM, optimization of grant, etc.;
  • Coordination with other levels of government and internally, all MC functions.
  • Implementation (SPAQ admin), including QA and innovations, including the use of technology;

Technical (20%):

• Support programme review, including end of cycle (EoC) reviews, end of round (EoR) reviews, and EoR coverage survey.
• Support M&E activities, including reporting of SPAQ admin and lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS); and

Representations & Knowledge Management (10%):

• Lesson identification and use, including adaptive management;
• Representation, especially at the LGA levels.
• Harmonisation with other partners; and

Qualifications and experience
Essential:

• Experience in using digital data collection tools in SMC campaigns and other health programmes;
• Experience managing project budgets;
• Training in Nursing or Public Health;
• Experience in programme management at the LGA/state level;
• Excellent project planning, management, and monitoring & evaluation skills.
• 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;
• Five years of experience working in the Public Health sector;
• Experience working on campaign-style interventions (delivery of interventions or social mobilization and SMC would be an added advantage).
• Experience working at the LGA and community levels;

Work-based skills and competencies:

• Excellent communication skills in English and the dominant local language in the assigned state;
• Evidence of being a resident in the state of assignment.
• Ability to travel to LGAs outside of the state capital at least 80% of the time;
• Team player and demonstrated ability to work within a team as well as individually;
• Good understanding of the Nigerian health system;
• Understanding of communication for behaviour change and social mobilisation;
• Ability to perform under pressure;

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Note

• Due to the nature of this role, we will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis, and the role might be filled and closed before the closing date.
• Early applications are encouraged.
• To apply for this position, you will need to have the right to work in Nigeria.