Project Manager, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at eHealth Systems Africa

Overview of Position

The Information and Communications Technology for Saving One Million Lives (ICT4SOML) Initiative is hiring a Project Manager to provide operational and project management support for its activities in coordinating the strategy and systematic scale-up of ICTs to achieve the goals of the Nigerian Government’s Saving One Million Lives (SOML) initiative.

SOML was launched in October 2012 to prevent the deaths of one million pregnant women, new mothers, newborns, and children under 5 by 2015. The United Nations Foundation, with funding from Norad, has partnered with GSMA and Intel to support the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology (FMCT) in Nigeria around the strategic planning and organized nationwide scale-up of ICTs to achieve the goals of the SOML initiative.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

The Project manager will:

• Provide operational support for ICT4SOML and lead day-to-day internal management and event planning/logistics.
• Oversee the planning and tracking of work streams and specified deliverables, including managing/updating the ICT4SOML detailed work plan, which identifies and sequences the activities needed to successfully complete the project.
• Provide operational support for stakeholder meetings and working group activities, discussions, and priorities.
• Coordinate progress with consultants and external teams to ensure deliverables are on time, within budget and at the required level of quality.
• Support budgeting, documentation and reporting activities for the UN Foundation’s engagement in ICT4SOML.
• Support knowledge management and online collaborative activities within ICT4SOML, including managing online collaboration and document sharing tools/platforms.

Working Relationships:

• Report directly to the Country Director, and work closely with UN Foundation core staff and ICT4SOML team members including the ICT Pillar Lead, the Sr. ICT Coordinators seconded into the FMOH and FMCT, as well as GSMA and Intel partners and the SOML Project Management Office.