Nigeria Health Support Consultant at Management Sciences For Health - MSH

Responsibilities:

• Deepen our understanding of Nigeria’s health system performance and progress with health sector reforms with a focus on strengthening health systems and access to and use of integrated, high quality, person-centered family planning, malaria, routine immunization, nutrition, maternal, newborn, and child health services.
• Leverage relationships with key stakeholders, donors, and local organizations across Nigeria and help us understand their strengths, priorities, activities, and interest in collaboration.  
• Leverage connections with individuals in Nigeria with an interest in leading/supporting donor-funded activities.
• Support MSH’s efforts to prepare for donor-funded opportunities in Nigeria, including supporting technical design for successful implementation.

This will require:

• Contributing to a written situational analysis/understanding of the health situation in Nigeria
• Meeting with key stakeholders, donors, and partners throughout Nigeria. This may involve traveling to select states.
• Providing written reports/landscape analysis/meeting notes
• Recommending potential personnel to fill key roles.
• Participating in strategy design sessions as needed 
• Contributing written inputs to advance strategy.

The consultant should have the following requirements and competencies:

• A postgraduate degree in Medicine, public health, Pharmacy, or other related fields.  
• A professional experience of at least seven (7) years.
• A good knowledge of Nigeria’s health systems
• Excellent project management capability
• Provide previous consultancy references if possible.

Desired skills/attributes.

• Could work in a team and produce quality results within the negotiated timelines.
• Have a sense of contact and interpersonal communication.
• Have skills in facilitating workshops.
• Could write quality reports.
• Have a good command of English language.
• Have a perfect command of computer tools, in particular Windows or Mac and MS-Office environments.