State IHP Director - Nigeria IHP at Palladium Group

Project Overview and Role:

IHP is an integrated health program with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) to identify and support rapid scale-up of proven interventions through improvement of service delivery and strengthening of health systems. It will focus its support for service delivery in six intervention areas, family planning, malaria, routine immunization, nutrition, maternal/newborn health, and treatment of childhood pneumonia/diarrhea.

This program will work closely with state-level government officials to support established state-level Health and Development Plans, build capacity, and promote ownership of interventions, systems, and results. Specific interventions will need to be tailored to local contexts and will be fully developed at state and Local Government Area (LGA) levels. Through agreements with individual states, the program’s potential breadth is the entire country with an emphasis on the north.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Provides leadership, guidance, vision, and management to staff for successful implementation in State
• Supervises state staff   and   ensures   strong   collaboration   with   donors, other implementers, and local counterparts
• Responsible for meeting contractual obligations, producing deliverables and targets, and achieving project results as specified by USAID/Nigeria under state
• S/he oversees project planning and ensures implementation, with a focus on results and financial accountability for all project activities

Required Qualifications:

• Post-graduate degree in International Health, Social Sciences, Management or related discipline
• Demonstrated progressive experience in RMNCH programs and working with development agencies and organizations, government officials, civil society leaders, community leaders, project beneficiaries and project staff
• Possess excellent organizational, analytical, oral and written communications skills in English
• Demonstrated supervisory skills; and ability to work well on a team