PSS Channel Lead - North at MSI Reproductive Choices

Objectives:

• The role holder will lead the overall management of assigned projects and channel of service delivery. S/he will be responsible for providing key day-to-day management oversight of assigned projects, manage, oversee and supervise assigned channels of service delivery within MSIN, and ensuring country programme and support office teams are reporting, spending, and delivering as per proposal deliverables and objectives. The role also includes strategic data analysis of programme performance and report compilation for assigned projects and channel. The role will build relationships across the organization, including international operations. Furthermore, the role holds full responsibility for the management of the external partners that are strategic to MSIN’s 2030 goals as related to assigned projects and channel.
• The role also contributes to furthering MSI’s Vision: To create A WORLD IN WHICH EVERY BIRTH IS WANTED and its mission of ensuring the individual’s right to CHILDREN BY CHOICE NOT CHANCE.

Overall Responsibilities:

Portfolio Management

• Provide leadership and support efficient management of project.
• Ensure projects are implemented to a high donor standard/commitment and on budget working with all key internal stakeholders.
• Facilitate and lead monthly/routine project management meetings.
• Organise quarterly/annual project governance meetings. 
• Provide oversight, advice and clear project guidance to regional teams, and departments. This will include work planning, reviews (visits), reporting, budgets, and forecasting.
• Ensure the submission of high-quality reports in a timely manner.
• Conduct/organise regional support visits to monitor progress against project priorities.
• Ensure clear communication: convene regular review meetings and conference calls with teams for project coordination; provide written and other guidance as necessary to disseminate vital information.

Donor Management and Reporting

• Ensure reporting (programmatic/financial) and invoicing is timely and standard.
• Ensure clear project documentation systems are applied and up to date.
• Build strong internal/external relationships. This includes facilitating coordination and learning across implementing partners, teams etc.
• Actively participate in new business – proposal writing and mobilising new resources for projects

Compliance

• Ensure strict compliance with donor rules and regulations.
• Ensure the project team (at national and state) complies with MSI clinical quality, finance, monitoring and data reporting standards.
• Ensuring clear project documentation systems are applied and up to date for projects.
• Conform to and enforce the MSI Anti-fraud and Bribery (AFB) guidelines for the channel and all related work.

Channel Management

• Strategic Leadership/development of the channel for increased Performance against KPIs 
• Clear ongoing analysis of the situation in which the managed channel performs and the business model needed.
• Work with Clinical Directorate to ensure clinical standards are maintained in the channel.
• Provide leadership to the channel and facilitate teams’ productivity.
• Routine mapping of the operational environment to identify opportunities and threats for intervention given Nigeria’s context for family planning and post-abortion care.
• Analysis of MSIN’s strengths and weaknesses in responding to developing context and needs.
• Active networking to identify allies and partners for increased impact. 
• Regular (at least once a month) presentations to the Director Programmes on developing thinking and plans based on analysis of results data and team management.
• Empower a highly motivated, cost-effective and high-performing channel (service delivery team)
• Lead recruitment of new service delivery points (SDPs) in line with funding ability
• Facilitate service provider's development and training.
• Facilitate cross-directorate support needed for individual teams’ performance. 
• Be accountable and supervise day-to-day implementation of channel commitments.
• Explore other business ventures that will add value to MSIN’s proposition to the service providers to ensure retainership.
• Collate and analyse monthly results and respond to issues arising.
• Manage all teams, and report issues to appropriate channels.

Other Responsibilities

• Support an inclusive team through fostering oneness, and professionalism.
• Provide support remotely to teams and assist on regional support visits as required in accordance with work plans and deliverables.
• Actively participate in the annual business plan development
• Any other business as may be assigned.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Relevant higher degree/business qualification (Desirable) 
• Track record in achieving financial and non-financial targets
• Strategic thinker, with excellent analytical and business communication skills. 
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Excellent leadership and management aptitude in leading diverse teams remotely.
• Pro-choice.
• Flexibility in operating in a changing environment and strong change management skills.
• High Decision and initiation skills

Ability to travel (50%)

• Eight years of project management experience and the last three years must be one managing a large grant on sexual and reproductive health preferably family planning.
• Experience managing interventions on Cervical Cancer, disability inclusion, menstrual hygiene, and sexual and gender-based violence will be an added advantage.
• Excellent understanding of the sexual and reproductive health and family planning environment in Nigeria.
• Good understanding and working knowledge of the North.
• Experience managing donors including BMGF, USAID, FCDO, BMZ etc.
• Ability to work under own initiative.
• Accuracy, attention to detail and high numeracy and analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills – both written and verbal; diplomatic and able to manage sensitive information.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills, including cross-team negotiating and relationship building.
• Advanced advocacy skills and ability to engage with top government stakeholders.