The Program Officer will work as part of A&T Nigeria scale up team led by the A&T Nigeria Project Director. This Program officer will support program implementation and documentation. This position will communicate and connect with other A&T Nigeria office technical staff, sub grantees and government stakeholders to ensure successful implementation of scale up program activities.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Work with state-level staff and government counterparts to provide support and guidance on program implementation and project monitoring.
- Work with scale up team to prepare, monitor and revise workplans and budget, strategies and sub-project documents, coordinating input from various technical and program staff.
- Work with sub grantees on the correct implementation and use of monitoring and evaluation tools, and adherence to complete, correct and timely reporting.
- Ensure that the quality of program/project activities adheres to national and approved protocols by supporting the development and implementation of appropriate mechanisms to ensure quality.
- Assist in the development and maintenance of computerized data capture of the scale up component and provide technical assistance and training to staff of the sub-grantees and government responsible for data entry.
- Support the collation of monthly reports from each scale up states and condense to a national report.
- Conduct analysis of state-level data and provide reports to State Office, National Office and local partners or other relevant parties.
- Document lessons learned and best practices in program implementation, community engagement and monitoring and evaluation.
- Contribute to the design and technical development of monitoring and evaluation initiatives at state level.
- Provide related capacity building support to states.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Educational Background:
BS/BA degree in public health, health sciences, behavioral sciences or its recognized equivalent with 5-7 years of relevant experience with international development programs.
Skills/Experience:
- Knowledge of health and development programming in a Nigeria.
- Knowledge and experience in project-level or state/national-level monitoring and evaluation system implementation
- Proven ability to support a multisectoral development project coordination
- Basic budget tracking or financial management skills
- Training and presentation skills
- Ability to work independently with initiative to manage high volume of work flow Cultural sensitivity and diplomacy
- Ability to work well with others and to develop and maintain compatibility among project staff, subcontractors, consultants and recipients of assistance.
- Ability to manage tight deadlines and deliver high volumes of work with minimal supervision. High degree of proficiency in written and spoken English communication.
- Well-developed computer skills. Ability to travel within Nigeria 25% time. Perform other duties as assigned.
- MS/MA degree in public health, health sciences, behavioral sciences or its recognized equivalent with 3-5 years of relevant experience with international development programs
- Experience in programming, M&E and database management an advantage
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Oct 28 2018
Active Until:
Nov 29 2018
Hiring Organization:
Fhi 360
industry:
Nonprofit