Capacity Development Manager at PACT

Position Summary

• The Capacity Development Manager is responsible for the strategic development, implementation, and coordination of all CD activities on a proposed OVC project in Nigeria.
• This position will play a key role in ensuring systems level improvement to the OVC sector in Nigeria through CD efforts with individuals, organizations, networks, government partners, and the OVC system as a whole.
• The position is based in Abuja, Nigeria, with anticipated travel to other regions of the country. The CD Manager must be a dynamic individual with strong interpersonal and managerial skills, and a commitment to capacity development. S/he will manage and be responsible for ensuring effective high-quality implementation of CD approaches and methodologies, as well as engagement with relevant stakeholders to embed sustainability in the CD work being done.
• This position involves strong coordination of multiple sites and staff, including coordination with the Chief of Party, staff members across other projects, as well as Pact home office, to develop, modify and monitor programming elements. Additionally, s/he will be expected to be comfortable with CD data, including designing methods of collection, analyzing data, interpreting and using the data, and adapting program implementation as needed based on the data gathered. This includes both qualitative and quantitative data.
• The CD Manager will have day-to-day responsibility for monitoring implementation, ensuring adherence to timelines, budget management and achievement of objectives. Project oversight will include but is not limited to: managing daily project activities to ensure the project accomplishes its deliverables with high impact, logistics and operations, budget approval, supervision of all staff in the area of responsibility; as well as monitoring, reporting, and evaluation activities.
• This position is contingent upon award of funds

Specific Duties
The CD Manager’s primary responsibilities include:

• Lead/coordinate strategy development, implementation, and monitoring of all project CD activities, in collaboration with other Pact and project staff, as well as project partners.
• Plan and implement capacity development and system strengthening approaches that improve the way that OVC services are provided in Nigeria. This could include network analysis and network strengthening activities to identify barriers and opportunities for advancing shared programming and investment agendas to improve coordination and integration of project interventions implemented by a range of service delivery, health and development partners.
• Design and implement methodologies to assess and improve the sustainability of system improvements for government and civil society partners.
• Support collaboration with implementing partners and government entities to apply emerging approaches and best practices in CD, especially though training, mentoring, and in-country collaborative learning (tailoring methods to each audience).
• Contribute to CD on quality assurance/continuous quality improvement of project tools, methodologies, and approaches.
• Review and adaptation of training, mentoring and other capacity strengthening approaches for specific cultural and issue-based contexts in Nigeria.
• Document and share successes and failures throughout project implementation to encourage shared learning within the project and across OVC projects globally (within Pact and externally)
• Ensuring infusion of community outreach and strengthening activities.
• Support knowledge management and linkages across project activities.
• Support monitoring and evaluation efforts as needed.
• Domestic travel required (50%).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Public Health or related field.
• At least 8 years of experience conducting capacity development activities with local governments and non-governmental organizations on health-related issues.
• Demonstrated understanding of system level approaches to improving OVC support in Nigeria.
• Excellent grasp of participatory organizational and technical CD methodologies.
• Excellent facilitation and training skills in a variety of health and organizational development topics.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Nigerian government policies, procedures and regulations.
• Oral and written fluency in English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree or higher.
• Experience working on USAID-funded programming, experience within the last five years strongly preferred.