Primary Health Care System Strengthening Director at Society for Family Health (SFH)

The primary Health Care System Strengthening Director (PHC-SSD) provides technical oversight and direction of activities to improve primary healthcare systems at the federal, state, facility, and community levels. S/he will work closely with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) and other relevant National and Sub-national institutions to strengthen primary health care systems.

The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

• Provide technical and programmatic leadership in the design and implementation of high-impact health system strengthening (HSS) activities for improved thorough integrated health systems at all levels
• Serve as key liaison and work collaboratively with donor and other stakeholders, contractors, and implementers, and various government institutions and representatives, particularly at the federal and state level for HSS activities. 
• Provide technical assistance to improve human resource capacity, internal control procedures, technical management, and workflow. 
• Lead in the conduct of regular facility quality assessments and scorecards by NPHCDA and build the capacity of State PHC leads to monitor quality improvements in facilities.

Qualifications/Experience:

• Master’s degree in public health, social sciences or related field with at least ten (10) years demonstrable experience at a senior level on large development project in Nigeria or West Africa, 
• In depth HSS experience which must include at least four of the following areas: human resource management, supply chain management, leadership and governance, program and financial planning and reporting, inter-institutional coordination and health information systems. 
• Experience providing HSS and integration technical assistance to government agencies, NGOs or other organizations and engaging them to support project implementation and/or to provide complementary resources to the project. 
• Experience working on a USAID-funded health project 
• Proven exceptional leadership in design, management, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, with skills in strategic planning, management, supervision, and budgeting. 
• The successful candidate will be a person of integrity with excellent quantitative and analytical and must have excellent report writing, and communication skills, including oral presentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.