Program Officer at Ingress Health Partners

Reporting to: Program Manager, Ingress Health Partners

Job Summary/Overview of Position 

The Program Officer under the supervision of the Program Manager will have day to day responsibility for the delivery of specific tasks related to project goals and objectives. S/he will be responsible for ensuring project goals and objectives are met. S/he will be expected to work closely with the other members of the consortium and work with a team of community-based healthcare providers as they work with the designated local government health structures, and the ministries of health in Lagos and Kaduna states to support the roll out and implementation of Project Aisha 

Duties and Responsibilities

• The Program officer will prepare drafts of work plans, budgets, results framework, and related working documents under the supervision of the Program Manager.
•  S/he will be responsible for preparing scheduled project reports- weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, and annual reports as well as any other reports that may be requested of the team by the funder and consortium lead. 
• S/he will support the building of relationships with both internal and external stakeholders and seek to establish relationships with project stakeholders including the team members of the State Ministries of Health, and their associated agencies as well as the relevant community agencies to ensure the success of the S3C deployment in Lagos and Kaduna states. 
• She will support the development of training curricula as well as the work with any further identified additional resources as needed to ensure the project goals are met. 

Additional related responsibilities include 

• Assist in developing and implementing detailed action plans for activities
• Support various state agencies and private sector entities in the planning of trainings, training schedules and on-site mentoring activities
• Work with Program manager to plan, review, execute and regularly review the detailed work plan. 
• With the rest of the team, plan and carry out supportive supervisory visits to public primary care facilities, nurse-led facilities and community and traditional birth attendants using developed checklists
• Work closely with all stakeholders to ensure all Project Aisha activities promote safe respectful maternal care and that women’s voices, and interests are actively engaged, and their needs addressed at the core of all activities. 
• Support strengthening of referral systems- or create referrals systems- between traditional birth attendants, private (nurse-led) primary care providers including community nurse/midwives and participating public primary and secondary hospitals and maternal childcare centers MCCs of Lagos State and between the appropriate centers in Kaduna.
• Support the relevant state agency technical leads (State primary Healthcare Board SPHCB, Local Government and Community Affairs Ministry (LGACA), Association of General Private Nursing Practitioners of Nigeria (AGPNPN), Traditional Medicine Board (TMB) to develop and review technical resource materials (e.g., training materials, strategy documents, job aids) and programming tools to support meeting project objectives and ongoing sustainability plans.
• Work with administrative and finance staff in Ingress Health Partners and facility, LGA and state agency teams to support the planning of and organize logistics for training alongside the Program manager around communication, advocacy and knowledge management tasks including documentation and program report writing
• Contribute to the Activity Monitoring Learning and Evaluation and Quality Improvement reports  

Preferred Skills / Prerequisites

• Registered nurse midwife with women’s health focus and experience with project implementation experience OR Master’s (MS) degree in health management, public health, health administration, or another relevant field
• Five years of relevant work experience, especially RMNCAH activities including training of implementers
• Experience with private sector health service delivery at the state and/or local government level
• Ability to write technical papers and reports
• Ability to implement capacity building activities, training, and workshops
• Ability to assess problems and develop solutions and to know to escalate problems
• Computer skills in MS Windows, Excel, Word, Power point and the use of Microsoft Teams application
• Ability to travel within and across the state approximately 50% of the time
• Excellent organizational skills and oral and written communications skills in English
• Previous experience in RMNCAH  
• Formal project management training is an added advantage.