Deadline: 24 April, 2020
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Society for Family Health Nigeria (SFH) is seeking to fill the position of Headquarters Project Coordinator. SFH is one of Nigeria’s largest non-governmental organisations, and it adopts social marketing and behaviour change communication to improve access to essential health information, health services, and health products.
Responsibilities
- The Headquarters Project Coordinator will have overall responsibility for project activities, including management of project staff, oversight and liaison with stakeholders at state and national levels
- Oversee the project design and implementation, and coordinate all field activities
- Oversee training, all demand generation activities, canvassing, interpersonal education sessions, supportive supervision, documentation and project evaluation
- All project deliverables and reports to the donor
- Take the lead on advocacy activities for the project to all stakeholders to ensure buy-in, participation and enabling environment for project implementation
- Supervise and coordinate the production of project outputs to ensure quality delivery within the time frame and budget provision as of the project
- Supervise, guide and coordinate the work of the project implementation team, consultants and activity/sub-project contractors under the project
- Oversee and ensure timely submission of the project report, inception report, combined project implementation review/annual project report (PIR/APR), monthly reports, quarterly reports, and other reports as may be required by the donors
- Represent SFH on all relevant task forces, subcommittees and technical working groups at the state level
- Conduct regular supervisory visits to all participating CPs, PPMVs and referral facilities in project locations
- Lead the publication of at least three research articles by project completion
- Manage external communications between the project and state stakeholders
- Supervise routine data collection and data management for the project in the assigned locations
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Social Sciences or Health Systems Administration with a master’s degree in a related field of study
- Five years of experience, minimum, in designing and implementing Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) for childhood illnesses programmes within donor-funded environments
- Good understanding of the private healthcare system in Nigeria
- Experience coordinating projects with federal and state government stakeholders, implementing partners and other NGOs
- Ability to multi-task and manage deliverables within agreed timelines and budgets
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