Capacity Strengthening Advisor at Society for Family Health (SFH)

Ref Id: sfh-53226
Location: Kano

Job Role
The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

• Lead the adaptation of relevant partnership engagement and capacity strengthening for platforms, and provide specific technical training, mentoring, and coaching to the project team and partners.
• Conduct institutional and systems analysis to support CBO and CSO capacity strengthening and advocacy platforms.
• Training and development methods to engage local CSOs.
• Provide timely updates on project progress, achievements, and challenges and make decisive adjustments when needed.
• Monitor program implementation, impact, and milestone achievement, and document and disseminate project successes.

Qualifications/Experience

• A minimum of Master's degree in International Development, Public Administration, Public Policy, Finance Management, Economic Policy, or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in project management for donor funded programs.
• Demonstrated strength and experience providing technical assistance, writing technical reports, and policy briefs targeted to decision-makers
• Prior experience working with USAID-funded programs is required
• Knowledge in partnership approaches and capacity-strengthening methodologies.

Skills and Competency required:

• Demonstrated ability to adapt to a variety of institutional structures and cultures;
• Demonstrated capacity to work with multiple partners to assess varying degrees of organisational and technical capability.
• The successful candidate will be a person of integrity with excellent analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Must have the ability to coach, mentor and develop capacity in staff.
• Should be proficient in Microsoft Office applications including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.