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Programme Director, SMC is needed at Malaria Consortium
JOB TITLE: Programme Director, SMC
LOCATION: Abuja / Nigeria Country Office
Department: Management
Length of contract: Indefinite
Role type: National
Grade: 11
Travel involved: In-country 50% with occasional int’l
Child safeguarding level: 1
Reporting to: WCA Programmes Director
Dotted line manager: Global Programme Director – SMC
Indirect reports: 7 Zonal project managers
Country and Project Background
- The Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, started operations in 2008, through the DFID/UKaid funded Support To National Malaria Programme, SuNMaP (2008 – 2016). The office had presence in 23 states of the country and has managed at various times, about 15 programmes and projects. It follows the mandate of the parent organization in Nigeria and has been working specifically in the following areas:
- Malaria control/elimination;
- Integrated community case management (iCCM) for malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea;
- Nutrition; and
- Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
- Malaria Consortium has been involved in implementing seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) since 2013, with a major scale-up between 2015 and 2017 across 7 countries of the Sahel region, including Nigeria, under the ACCESS-SMC project. Today, Malaria Consortium’s SMC programme operates in Burkina Faso, Chad, Nigeria and Togo, using a mix of philanthropic and institutional funding. In Nigeria, Malaria Consortium currently implements SMC in 7 states: Bauchi, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Jigawa, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara, aiming to reach around 9 million children under 5 in 2020.
Person Specification
Qualifications and experience:
Essential:
- Postgraduate Master’s Degree in Public Health, Health Policy, Epidemiology or another relevant specialty is a minimum requirement.
- Senior management level experience on large-sized health projects in Africa.
- At least 15 years working experience in international projects.
- At least 5 years of those spent in projects in developing countries lasting more than 2 years and managing teams of 10 or more including local and international staff.
- Extensive experience of working at national level in developing countries.
- Excellent project planning, management and monitoring & evaluation skills.
- Experience managing programme / project budgets
- Excellent written and spoken English Language
Desirable:
- Proven leadership skills and team-leading
- Experience in advocacy and policy influencing
- Experience managing donor grants or contracts such as DFID, GFATM or USAID/PMI.
- Experience working on malaria, maternal and child health programmes, including community health delivery.
- Familiar with the Nigeria health system
Work-based Skills and Competencies
Essential:
- Demonstrable passion for Malaria Consortium’s mission; a strategic manager with integrity and a desire to work in a dynamic environment
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills are also needed.
- Clear communication skills for managing partnerships and relationships with senior stakeholders at all levels
- Strategic thinking.
- Ability to manage and inspire high performing teams.
- Excellent programme management skills, with proven ability to implement high-quality projects on time and within budget.
- Strong negotiation skills, particularly in engaging government health officials at all levels.
- Good influencing and persuasion skills and ability to remain compliant with organisational and donor policies.
- Ability to manage and prioritize high workload and multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Excellent English language skills, both spoken and written.
- Capable of establishing strong working relationships with colleagues from different functions and cultures.
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel.
- Proactive and takes initiative as required.
- Results-oriented work ethic.