The Associate Director/ State Team Lead /Kaduna is based at the FHI 360 office in Kaduna, Nigeria. This position has a four-fold purpose:
To provide coordination of the technical and program components and general oversight for A&T activities in the State, including managerial oversight of the Kaduna A&T team and monitoring work-plans to ensure timely delivery of results. To ensure technical excellence in process monitoring. S/he will work with the M&E Advisor in Abuja to ensure adequate monitoring activities are being conducted in a timely and appropriate manner. To support information exchange and foster links with appropriate NGOs, international, bilateral and governmental agencies, academic institutions, and private/commercial sector companies and organizations in the state of Kaduna and in Nigeria. To coordinate all capacity building activities for A&T partners at the state level.
Under the guidance of the A&T Nigeria Project Director:
- Work with the relevant A&T technical specialists to establish and execute effective program planning, implementation and monitoring assistance to all A&T public, NGO, and private sector local partners. This will include providing technical oversight to strengthen all the components of A&T’s approach and existing activities of scaling up IYCF in Kaduna state such as:
- representing A&T at advocacy events in Kaduna state,
- supervising and reviewing interpersonal communication and community mobilization sessions,
- brokering stronger ties between public and private health sectors,
- supporting mass communication efforts,
- conducting data quality audits to assure the quality of program data, and
- supervising and reviewing capacity strengthening sessions.
- Oversee implementation of A&T’s workplan and budget in Kaduna State, ensuring technical excellence and fiscal integrity.
- Act as a key link between Kaduna government, NGO and private sector stakeholders and the A&T Abuja and HQ teams. Maintain close coordination and dialogue with key stakeholders at the state level and implementers at the local government area (LGA) in all locations of the state.
- Provide overall supervision for A&T Kaduna staff and ensure compliance with technical, programmatic, contractual and financial requirements set by A&T and its donors.
- Coordinate all capacity building activities for A&T partners at the state level.
- Review periodic reports (programmatic and financial) submitted by all collaborating public and private sector partners at the state office level and forward same to the A&T Abuja office.
- Ensure that all A&T assets and other resources are effectively managed.
- Actively participate in, contribute to, and in some cases conduct or help facilitate major A&T program development and implementation activities (strategic planning, program presentations, advocacy and policy meetings, workshops), as appropriate.
- Work closely with A&T Technical Advisors and Program and Project Director to leverage other international donor and private sector resources to complement and extend project reach.
- Present/disseminate program results, based on program experience to State Ministry of Health, projects and partners, and other professional colleagues and organizations at state and national level.
- A minimum of 8 years of experience managing public health/ development projects.
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience supervising direct reports.
- Demonstrated experience in successfully working across A&T components of advocacy, IPC and community mobilization, mass communication, and strategic use of data in the context of social and behavior change, with a specialty in at least one of these.
- Demonstrated experience and high acceptability in working with government, NGOs, private sector companies, academia, professional organizations, and donors in Kaduna/other states.
Specific Knowledge Requirements:
- Infant and young child feeding and nutrition desirable.
- Private sector health care desirable.
- Advocacy desirable.
- Fluency in written and oral English required, knowledge of Hausa and other local languages desirable.
- Advance knowledge of adult learning principals and experience training adults for public health programming purposes.
Skills:
- Ability to work independently, assess priorities, and manage a variety of activities.
- Proven teamwork, partnering skills (facilitating dialogue and communications across diverse sectors, institutions, and geographic administrative levels).
- Excellent writing, oral and visual presentation skills; training skills.
- Ability to assess priorities and competently complete a variety of activities with a high level of accuracy and timeliness.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to initiate and implement activities with minimal oversight and supervision.
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, etc.) and the Internet.
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