Deadline: Not specified
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Evidence Action is seeking to fill the position of Programme Management Associate.
Evidence Action is a global nonprofit with an approach distinctive to international development: exclusively scaling interventions that are backed by strong evidence and can be delivered with exceptional cost-effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Support the day-to-day planning, implementation, and coordination of national and state-level programme activities, cutting across different programmes
- Support national-level coordination with governments, programme implementing partners, and other stakeholders
- Draft meeting agendas, minutes and reports for internal and external activities and provide support for training and capacity building activities
- Engage in coordination and networking with other Evidence Action units, project partners and other relevant stakeholders
- Support the country director to track and manage work plans for technical assistance
- Contribute to internal working groups to leverage experiences and learnings across the state programme geographies
- Occasionally contribute to operational research projects such as desk reviews and/or case studies
- Support field teams on field data administration
- Work with the team to develop and roll out knowledge management tools, processes, and systems with programme teams in Nigeria
- Take delegated responsibilities in logistical and field operation planning, supervision and reporting
- Support the country director to implement good practices in file storage and programme documentation
- Coordinate with the team to gather communications material, including photos, data points, consent forms, etc
- Provide additional support to the country teams as needed and perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with two years, minimum, of work experience in public health programmes, community or social enterprises/NGOs
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Organised and self-motivated individual who is dedicated to excellence and can complete tasks with minimal supervision
- Quick learner and problem solver who can quickly grasp programme information and identify and act on opportunities for improvement
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to juggle competing priorities and deadlines and to communicate clearly and proactively when plans change
- Demonstrated strong writing skills and project management skills
- Tech-savvy and experienced in using a range of cloud-based tools and systems (such as Asana and Slack), as well as Microsoft Office suite
- Team player who is eager to join a fast-paced, growing and diverse team with a startup atmosphere
- Alignment with Evidence Action’s core values
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