Deadline: Unspecified
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Development Alternatives Initiatives (DAI) is seeking to fill the role of Chief of Party (COP) for an anticipated five-year USAID-funded Nigeria Integrated Health Programme (IHP).
DAI is a global development company, tackling fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governance, and instability.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership, management, strategic direction, and vision for Nigeria IHP
- Oversee critical decisions on activities, partnerships, staffing, finances, and donor relations
- Identify and effectively manage and mitigate all risks related to the programme
- Lead the accurate and quality implementation of the programme and its agreed work plans, ensuring the programme is flexible, innovative and adaptive to changes in all operating environments
- In coordination with the team, develop effective relationships with key stakeholders including government officials across the countries engaged in the programme
- Serve as primary liaison to USAID, in-country counterparts, and IHP stakeholders
- Supervise senior managers and technical experts
- Ensure compliance with USAID regulations and DAI procedures
- Ensure quality of programme outputs is fully aligned with DAI and USAID requirements through mentoring, training and monitoring of staff and partners
- Ensure the quality and timely production and submission of deliverables to USAID
- Additional responsibilities may be assigned as business needs evolve
Requirements
- Postgraduate education (master’s degree or higher) in Public Health, Organisational Development, International Development, Health Systems, or a related field
- Ten years, minimum, of experience and expertise managing large and complex donor-funded programmes of similar or related nature, size, and complexity
- Knowledge and understanding of USAID global health programmes in African countries
- Demonstrated experience working in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health programmes
- Experience in successfully establishing and managing collaborative relationships and partnerships with donors and government counterparts at the senior level
- Demonstrated leadership in strategic planning and thinking, management, supervision, and budgeting
- Demonstrated leadership abilities, including problem-solving skills, collaboration experience, creativity, and willingness to innovate
- Fluent oral and strong analytical written English
- Experience supervising full-time staff, short-term consultants and the work of implementing partners, both directly and through a matrixed management structure
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