Facilitation of Leadership and Management Training for Public Health Programs at Jhpiego - John Hopkins University

Overview

• MCGL in collaboration with RISE Nigeria is organizing a Leadership and Management Training for Public Health Programs targeting high-level and midlevel, government stakeholders across Ebonyi, Kebbi and the FCT. 
• The training aims to strengthen leadership, governance, program management, and accountability within Nigeria’s health system. To support this, Jhpiego seeks to engage a qualified firm or a team of expert consultants with demonstrated experience in leadership development and health systems strengthening to design and facilitate the training.The objective is to design, deliver, and evaluate a high-quality, interactive leadership and management training programme tailored to senior and mid-level public health leaders in Nigeria.

Responsibilities

Training Design and Customization:

• Review national and sub-national priorities, policies, and gaps across MNCH, Nutrition, and Immunization
• Develop a context-specific SMART advocacy curriculum integrating the three technical areas
• Align content with national strategies and global best practices in health advocacy.

Development of Training Materials:

• Prepare high-quality facilitator manuals, participant handbooks, presentations, and advocacy tools
• Develop practical tools, including: Advocacy problem analysis frameworks, Stakeholder mapping and power analysis tools, Message development templates, SMART advocacy planning templates
• Incorporate real-life case studies relevant to Nigeria
• Training Facilitation
• Facilitate a 3–5-day in-person training using participatory adult learning approaches
• Deliver sessions covering: Principles of SMART advocacy, Advocacy strategy design and prioritization, Policy engagement and influencing, Evidence-based messaging and communication, Stakeholder engagement and coalition building.
• Guide participants to develop integrated advocacy action plans addressing MNCH, Nutrition, and Immunization issues.

Capacity Building and Coaching:

• Provide hands-on technical support to participants to: Develop clear, measurable (SMART) advocacy objectives and Build feasible advocacy implementation plans
• Facilitate peer exchange and learning
• Provide post-training support/mentorship (where applicable)
• Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting
• Design and administer pre- and post-training assessments
• Evaluate participant learning outcomes and satisfaction
• Document key insights, lessons learned, and recommendations
• Submit a comprehensive final report.

Deliverables:

• The consultants are expected to deliver:
• Inception report (approach, methodology, and workplan)
• Adapted SMART advocacy training curriculum (integrated MNCH, Nutrition,
• Immunization)
• Facilitated training sessions (3–5 days)
• Participant-developed advocacy action plans
• Pre/post training assessment tools and analysis
• Final training report with recommendations.

Required Qualifications
 

Firm / Consultant Requirements:

• Proven experience in health advocacy, public health programming, or health systems strengthening
• Demonstrated expertise in SMART advocacy training and facilitation
• Strong technical knowledge of MNCH, Nutrition, and/or Immunization programs
• Experience working with government stakeholders, CSOs, and development partners
• Prior work on donor-funded programs (e.g., US-Government, Global Fund, EU) is highly desirable

Lead Facilitator:

• Advanced Degree in public health, policy, social sciences, or related field
• Minimum 10–15 years’ relevant experience
• Strong track record in advocacy strategy development and facilitation
• Excellent communication and adult learning facilitation skills.