Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s foremost non-profit organizations that are specialist in the comprehensive prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable and under privileged populations. They increasingly find their work on malaria can be effectively integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact and therefore expanded their remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions.
They are actively recruiting for the position below
Role Title: State Project Manager
Location: Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Lagos, Yobe
Role Responsibilities:
· The preferred candidate will provide overall programme oversight at the state level.
· The preferred candidate will be the focal point for engagement with DFID representative within the state including other DFID-funded programmes.
· The preferred candidate will facilitate the development and monitoring of a state-level sustainability plan with the State Malaria Elimination Programme (SMEP) and its key development partners.
· The preferred candidate will lead institutional capacity-building efforts with SMEP including those linked to health reforms. The position holder will directly line manage a team of four staff and represent the programme at the state coordination platforms.
· The preferred candidate will support SMEP to better coordination with other tiers of government both (NMEP and LGAs in their state).
· The preferred candidate will support the state government to achieve statewide roll-out of project supported interventions.
· The State Project Manager will be responsible for the provision of programme technical support to state-level malaria control effort and direct implementation of SUNMAP2 for the control of malaria at State, LGA. Ward and community levels.
· The State Project Manager will lead a team that includes experienced technical and programme management experts and oversee the provision of short-term technical assistance from SUNMAP2 to SMEP and other key stakeholders.
· He / She will work to keep SUNMAP2 state activities on course to achieve targets especially because it will be a payment-by-result type of contract.
· The preferred candidate will apply value-for-money in their management approach.
Required Qualifications:
· A master’s degree holder in Public Health, Epidemiology, International Development or related discipline
· Mid-level management experience on large-sized health projects in Nigeria
· Over 5 years working experience in development projects
· At least 2 years of those spent in projects based in the state and managing teams of 5 or more personnel
· Mus have experience managing at least one project for an external government client
· Must have experience working with performance-based contracts
· Experience in project and financial management with a proven track record of timely submission of high-quality project deliverables
· Experience managing donor grants or contracts such as DFID, GFATM or USAID / PMI
· Experience working on maternal and child health programmes, including community health delivery
· Familiar with the Nigeria health system
Application Deadline:
August 31st 2020
Application Guideline:
To apply, click on the link below.
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