Health System Strengthening/Service Delivery Advisor at Nigerian Urban reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI)

Job Description

• The Health System Strengthening Advisor (Service Delivery Advisor) will take the lead in improving management and system performance at the National, State, LGA, and health facilities level, while supporting linkages to communities of focus for the NURHI project.
• He/she will work very closely with the policy makers, facilities, providers and stakeholders in both the public and private sector of the Nigerian Health System.
• In collaboration with core partner on SERVICE DELIVERY and with support from the NURHI technical team, the Health System Advisor will identify problems affecting the access, quality, and efficiency of reproductive health services and identify/apply solutions.
• His/her primary focus will be strengthening the capacity of the urban providers in planning, financial management, monitoring the performance in service delivery, quality assurance, collection, analysis, and use of data.

Education and/or Experience

• Advanced degree in Medicine, Public Health or Social Science required;
• Fifteen years of experience in policy, planning, management and implementation of health programs;

Skills Required:

• Must have experience in health system strengthening, delivery of health services, health care financing, analysis and use of data, management and capacity building of human resources. and tracking client satisfaction;
• Must be familiar with reproductive health, Family planning public-private partnership in health service delivery;
• Must be able to identify problems and find solution and have experience in delivery of technical assistance and supervising technical assistance team;
• Must have excellent diplomatic, communication, team building & facilitation skills and be a creative and strategic thinker.