Health System Strengthening Team Lead - Integrated Health Program (IHP) at Palladium Group

Project Overview and Role

• USAID/Nigeria envisions an integrated health program with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) to identify and support rapid scale-up of proven interventions through improvement of service delivery and strengthening of health systems. 
• The activity will focus its support for service delivery in six intervention areas: family planning, malaria, routine immunization, nutrition, maternal/newborn health, and treatment of childhood pneumonia/diarrhea.
• This program will also need to work closely with state-level government officials to support established state-level Health and Development Plans, build capacity, and promote ownership of interventions, systems, and results. 
• Specific interventions will need to be tailored to local contexts and will be fully developed at state and Local Government Area (LGA) levels.

Responsibilities

• Works closely with subsequent TO key personnel providing strategic guidance, vision, planning, and implementation for successful HSS initiatives and activities of the project;
• Provides technical expertise on HSS, covering the six building blocks to HSS;
• Supervises HSS technical staff in state offices and ensures the strategic and functional integration of all HSS activities as well as active collaboration with donors, other implementers, and local counterparts;
• S/he oversees HSS activities, provides technical direction and support and ensures results for project activities.

Requirements

• Graduate degree in Public Health, or related discipline;
• Demonstrated progressive experience in HSS and preferable experience with primary care and/or RMNCH programs working with development agencies and organizations, government officials, civil society leaders, community leaders, project beneficiaries and project staff;
• Demonstrated technical skills in HSS of primary care and/or RMNCH programs with excellent organizational, analytical, oral and written communications skills in English, demonstrated supervisory skills; and ability to work well on team.