Jobs at Health Initiatives for Safety and Stability in Africa (HIFASS)

Job Description

• S/he will work under the supervisor of the OVC Advisor to monitor and support LOPIN 3 CBOs/FBOs sub grantees in Ebonyi state to implement OVC program.

Specific Duties

• Participate in development, management and review of CBOs/FBOs program activities
• Carry out periodic visit to program sites within the selected LGAs and wards in Ebonyi state

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent in Health related discipline or Social Sciences
• Minimum of 1-2 years post qualification experience in a Non-governmental organization
• Ability to use Microsoft words, excel and power point package
• Good communication and report writing skill.

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Job Description

• The receptionist will provides general office support with a variety of clerical activities and related tasks, under the supervision of the Admin Assistant.

Specific Duties

• Maintains security by following procedures, monitoring visitor logbook and issuing visitor badges/tag pass
• Provides callers with information such as organization address and other relevant information.
• Greets and directs visitors to the organization
• Answer telephones and direct the caller to the appropriate associate
• Takes and retrieves messages for various personnel

Minimum Requirements

• OND/NCE or higher qualification
• 1-2 years in related working experience
• Good oral and written communications skills.

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Job Description

• Under the general supervision of the Director of Finance and Administration, this position provides fiscal and administrative management services for award.

Responsibilities
The manager's responsibilities encompass abroad range of activities:

• Responsible for the proper setup of awards in the financial system
• Coordinating the reporting process and preparing financial reports to donors, primarily at the close out of the award.
• The major responsibilities of this position is to supervise, maintain and actively manage the necessary post-award sub-grant systems in accordance with the relevant positions in the sub-award documents.

Specific Duties

• Provide programmatic and regulatory management of grants, including documentation of protection assurance, tracking due dates for activities, issuing grant agreements and tracking interim, annual and final grantee reports
• Evaluate and produce written responses to donor and HQ inquiries
• Review grant proposals for completeness
• Build and maintain relationships with the local partners and finance staff of the CBOs, FBOs and other local NGOs in the Consortium.
• Carry out inductions and staff trainings for finance procedures, donor requirements etc.
• Develop sub grant tools and build the capacity of sub-grantees finance officers on the usage.

Minimum Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance is required. An advanced degree in Business and/or professional certification (CPA; CMA) is preferred
• Minimums of 5 years of progressively responsible Accounting experience
• Computer proficiency in spreadsheets, database, word-processing and internet applications
• Ability to interpret and apply various policies and procedures independently
• Demonstrate administrative experience including the ability to coordinate, monitor and financially manage sponsor activities.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience with sponsor grant and contract financial management in Global Health sector in particular USIAD and other USG entities
• Prior experience in a dynamic start-up environment
• Ability to interpret business policies procedures and explain the best practice to use to a diverse audience.

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Job Description

• The Advisor serves as technical resource on gender and sexual diversity for HIV/AIDS activities including but not limited to policy development and advisory services, research and content development, practice advocacy, management and coordination.

Specific Duties

Program Development and Advisory Service:

• Provide direct advisory and technical support to program in areas of HIV and gender and sexual diversity
• Provide advice and technical support in development of programmatic focus to address stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV
• Provide technical support to ensure the involvement of people living with and affected by HIV in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of program.

Research and Content Development:

• Lead program content development of normative standards and approaches on HIV, gender and sexual diversity.
• Research and understand concepts to foster improved adherence to human rights treaties and obligations under international agreements.

Practice Advocacy:

• Contribute experience and expertise to the formulation of new programmatic activities, documenting practice and cross-practice experience and lesson learned in the country.
• Promote regional and local partnering and exchange, through HIV information learning network.
• Support networking among partners, including the identification of external support providers

Management and Coordination:

• Contribute to team strategy development, work planning and M&E plan from gender and sexual diversity perspective
• Promote knowledge management to enrich the content base for AIDS response strategies by documenting practice experience, lesson learned and replicable tools from applied initiatives.

Minimum Requirements

• An advance University Degree in a Development area - Social Science, Political Science, Public Administration, Public Health or Epidemiology.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 10 years of overall relevant professional experience as well as a proven professional record in the practice area.
• Proven professional credibility, as well as senior - level working experience in governmental, multilateral or civil society.
• Organisation, n both developed and developing countries is highly desirable.
• Experience in leading/managing knowledge product development and dissemination