Associate Director – Cluster Operations at Excellence Community Education Welfare Scheme Ltd/Gte (ECEWS)

Job Description

• Will participate in the development and monitoring of work plans and budgets, ensure appropriate levels of technical assistance in program operations; coordinate partner efforts in program implementation, and ensure appropriate program monitoring and accurate financial and programmatic reporting to the State Office.
• Responsible for the overall management and coordination of ECEWS activities at the Cluster office.
• Serve as the point of contact of ECEWS with government officials and coordinate and collaborate with all public sector and NGO partners at the state level and ensure that all ECEWS assets and other resources are effectively managed.
• Provide technical and managerial leadership in the provision of quality HIV prevention (including PrEP), treatment, care and reproductive/family planning services in different clusters.
• Take the lead in planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting on HIV prevention activities and establish linkages between communities and health services.
• Train and mentor project staff, health care providers and consortium partners to provide high-quality HIV, RH/FP services including screening and referral of identified clients with cervix cancer.
• Perform all other duties relating to the project as assigned by his/her supervisor.

Minimum Recruitment Standard

• MB.BS / MD / degree is required with MPH, or a post-graduate clinical or public health degree is required.
• 7 to 9 years’ experience working in the health or development field in Nigeria with at least 5 years progressive experience working in the PEPFAR HIV response.
• Proven experience in project development, planning and facilitating technical training; with extensive knowledge and skills for application of Differentiated Models of Care appropriate for situations and the ability to constitute and deploy competent surge teams to implement catchups.
• Ability to analyse and use site-level granular data to identify gaps, develop and deploy remedial action plans to improve service delivery.
• Familiarity with the Nigerian public sector health system and NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable.
• Clinical management and training experience and ability to understand the full range of issues around the clinical management of HIV/AIDS, including the provision of ART.
• Knowledge of Nigerian clinical settings, including government and non-government settings
• Proven ability in supervising staff.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Willingness to extend working hours to meet deadlines and at short notice.
• Ability to function effectively in multi-disciplinary teams to produce excellent results under pressure.
• Ability to use key computing applications e g MS Office Suite, etc and knowledge of different databases (DHIS or LAMIS) is a plus.