Capacity Development Officer at Palladium Group

Location: Osun  Application Link

Location Abuja  Application Link

Location: Abia  Application Link

Location: Ebonyi  Application Link

Project Overview and Role   

• Health Policy Plus (HP+) is a USAID-funded five-year project awarded to Palladium (formerly Futures Group) on August 28, 2015. HP+ has a mandate across global, country and sub-national levels to strengthen and advance health policy priorities in the areas of family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH), HIV, and maternal health. HP+ aims to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy development and implementation, with an emphasis on voluntary, rights-based health programs.
• HP+ will help public health and policy leaders attach higher priority to their national and sub-national health needs, secure sustainable financing, advance health equity, and monitor policy implementation to ensure gains stay on track.
• HP+ aims to secure long-term enduring change by working with coalitions both inside and outside of health and showing common cause with neglected populations and other development actors. Central elements of HP+ revolve around building in-country capacity, institutionalizing achievements of past investments, and promoting country ownership of programs and initiatives.
• HP+ Nigeria is supporting state-level efforts to effectively capitalize on key health financing reforms, specifically the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF), by strengthening systems and structures to operationalize the fund, while also meet, and potentially exceed or improve performance to meet, the requirements of Primary Health Care Under One Roof (PHCUOR). Working in Abia, Osun, Ebonyi and the FCT, as well as some national-level support, HP+ Nigeria is looking to advance the following key objectives: (1) strengthen state-level governance, coordination, and synchronization to sustain stewardship and ownership of key health financing reforms; (2) identify and mobilize predictable and sustainable revenues for state-level health reforms; (3) improve transparency, accountability and efficiency of mobilized resources.

Position Summary

• The Capacity Development Officer, based in Osun, Nigeria will be responsible for assisting the Osun State Capacity Development Advisor to facilitate rollout of capacity strengthening activities in the state.
• He/she will be responsible for implementing large trainings, capacity development initiatives and approaches, and for moving from needs assessment to planning and implementation.
• He/she will work closely with other technical team members in Osun to ensure capacity development strategy, approaches, and measurement are institutionalized across project activities. This position will be supervised by the Osun State Capacity Development Advisor.

Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Capacity Development Advisor, the Capacity Development Officer will be responsible for the following:

• Assist in the development and implementation of effective and innovative capacity development approaches, tools, and methodologies for project activities in Osun.
• Closely coordinate with the Capacity Development Advisor to help cascade capacity development approaches and strategy from the Abuja HP+ Nigeria office to Osun state.
• Work with state-level government departments, boards and agencies to collect and adapt capacity development materials and curricula.
• Guide the development and/or finalization of standard capacity development materials for project use and ensure feasibility and sustainability for scale up/wide use by local stakeholders and partners.
• Help facilitate organizational capacity assessments, focused on BHCPF implementation and achieving PHCUOR, and design/implement capacity development strategies; supplement with capacity development workshops and trainings with state-level stakeholders, geared towards local ownership and sustainability.
• Develop and prepare pre- and post-workshop assessments and evaluations. Document performance milestones and collect and save results for results reporting.
• Collect and track other capacity development results and updates to contribute to quarterly reporting, results reporting, and other success story generation.
• Provide targeted, hands-on capacity development support to state-level government departments, boards, and agencies that are closely involved in BHCPF rollout (PHCB/As, SHIAs, WDCs, etc.).
• Ongoing monitoring and documentation of successes, or necessary changes or adaptations to project capacity development approach and strategies; communicate changes or adaptation needs within the team and in close coordination with Capacity Development Advisor.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in related field with minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience.
• Experienced trainer and facilitator with some experience in designing, and considerable skills in conducting, skills-building workshops and other capacity development approaches with a variety of stakeholders. Capacity development experience with government stakeholders desired.
• Experienced providing capacity development support in policy-, finance-, and governance-related work highly desired.
• Knowledge of best practices in capacity development methods, including needs assessment and performance measurement.
• Excellent people skills with the ability to develop others and to impart knowledge and experience in an accessible and clear manner.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills. Experience working with diverse and multicultural teams.
• Experience working on USAID funded projects is highly desired.
• Ability to speak, write and read English is required.