Federal Team Advisor at Palladium Group

Job Description

• The Federal Technical Advisor (FTA) will deliver technical assistance to Federal MDAs, states’-based program colleagues, and spend time to influence, conduct advocacies and internal initiatives at the discretion of his/her supervisor that include active participation in different TWGs.
• This is full-time role and requires in-person engagement with room for hybrid TA delivery.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

The Federal Team Advisor will be responsible for:

Programme delivery and oversight

• Lead on programme technical and related budgeting and financial management and accountability of the implementation of all federal level activities and results under each of the programme outcomes and outputs.
• Lead the preparation of federal annual strategic plans, technical and operational work plans and budgets, TA plans, performance improvement plans, and other plans as required.
• Quality-assure all federal level TA reports, including review and updating of implementation of technical strategies, interventions and activities and ensuring alignment to key government priorities and Lafiya’s theory of change, results framework and annual workplans.
• Assume overall responsibility for the effective implementation of Lafiya federal work plans and ensure timely delivery, within budget, meets client and stakeholder expectations and is contractually compliant.
• Responsible for forecast management at the federal level including working with the team to minimize monthly forecast variance and annual budget variance.
• Monitor federal implementation progress and progress toward milestones, maintain up to date log of issues and risks, works to resolve issues, manages, and mitigates risks, and escalate material issues and risks as appropriate.
• Ensure Lafiya’s federal TA and programme delivery continue to demonstrate good value for money.

Team management and leadership

• Assume overall responsibility for the effective and professional management of Lafiya’s federal engagement ensuring integrity and professionalism in line with Palladium Code of Conduct.
• Lead, guide, mentor and manage the performance of assigned direct reports and ensures appropriate leadership, guidance, mentorship and management of consultants.

Stakeholder management 

• Provide strategic and technical representation of the programme at key federal level fora, meetings and coordination platforms, donor meetings, inter-agency working groups, and various key fora as assigned by the supervisor.
• Establish and maintain effective and collaborative working relationship with other FCDO funded programmes, Federal Ministry of Health, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, National Health Insurance Agency, Federal Ministry of Budget and Planning, National Population Commission, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and other key government ministries, departments, and agencies; and key stakeholders including civil society organizations, community structures and development partners.

Internal:

• Close working relationship with the State Team Leads. Regular communication with technical and operation teams.
• Close relationship with other Palladium programs, keeping them informed, leverage and learn lessons.
   

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced Degree or higher in Public Health, Policy and Governance, Health Economics, or other relevant fields required.
  Demonstrated years of experience in managerial/coordination positions with Health International Organizations.
• Demonstrated experience working with donors, project design, proposal development, and monitoring and evaluation with the ability to turn concepts and strategy into measurable action.
• Strong interpersonal (verbal and written) communication skills and ability to facilitate collaboration.
• Outstanding capacity to understand the Nigerian context, portfolio, and overall programmatic needs, and coordinate the relevant technical assistance from within and outside the health sector.
• Ability to transfer technical knowledge and skills and demonstrate commitment to staying informed and up to date with the best practices.
• Demonstrated problem solving, analytic, financial, and evaluative skills.
• Ability to work with multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience in specified technical areas including health systems strengthening, Policy support, health security, demography, technical tools and materials development, and monitoring and evaluation is desired.
• Experience in strategy development and working across sectors or disciplines is highly desired.
• Attention to detail and ability to perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities effectively and efficiently within a required timeframe.