We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Program Assistant
Job Requisition ID: 2023201474
Location: Abuja
Job type: Full time
Supervisor: Associate Director, Liquid Oxygen
Project: Meeting Targets and Achieving Epidemic Control (EpiC) Liquid Medical Oxygen (LOX) infrastructure Project.
Basic Function
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- The Program Assistant will provide programmatic and operational support to the team for the implementation of Meeting Targets and Achieving Epidemic Control (EpiC) Liquid Medical Oxygen (LOX) infrastructure program activities.
- S/he forms part of the team that coordinates overall implementation of the LOX project.
- S/he will also be specifically responsible for maintaining electronic files for easy access and retrieval and support knowledge management and program communities of practice.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide program and administrative support to the team in the implementation of the LOX infrastructure project.
- Support with preparation of various program documents such as workplans, budgets, reports, and proposals on program implementation arrangements.
- Prepare presentation materials / slides in Power-point for presentations for meetings/workshops.
- Maintain and organize up-to-date hard and electronic files for easy access and retrieval, ensuring safe keeping of confidential materials.
- Support development and regular update of the project’s over-arching brief, including areas of focus, success stories, implementation learning and research.
- Support knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the Country office focusing on contributions of the project to knowledge networks, including communities of practice for medical oxygen.
- Support the team in planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of activities focused on achievement of the goals of the project.
- Review, collate and submit routine (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, and quarterly) progress reports from sub teams.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications and Requirements
- B.Sc./BA Degree in Public Health, Business Administration, Medical Sciences, Behavioral Sciences or its recognized equivalent with 1-3 years relevant experience with international development programs including COVID-19 program planning and implementation at the community or state level working with public and NGO sectors.
- Master’s Degree in Public Health is an added advantage
- Demonstrated success in multicultural environments is an advantage.
Knowledge, Skills & Attributes:
- Knowledge of health and development programming in a developing country
- Working knowledge of major donor policies (USAID, Global Fund) as well as international not-for-profit organizations
- Knowledge of COVID -19, medical oxygen, health systems, and related issues
- Ability to manage tight deadlines and deliver high volumes of work with minimal supervision.
- Ability to organize systems to monitor administrative and implementation results
- Demonstrated expertise in building effective relationship with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to work as a team member.
- High degree of proficiency in written and spoken English communication
- Well-developed computer skills
- Ability to travel within Nigeria 25% time.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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