Technical Director, Health Workforce Management Activity at Banyan Global

Overview

• BG Laurel International Nigeria LTE/GTE is a fully owned subsidiary of Banyan Global, Inc., a woman-owned small business and international development consulting firm committed to improving livelihoods through market approaches for a broad and lasting impact.
• The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC, and has program operations and activities in over fifteen countries around the world. Banyan Global operates within six practice areas: gender, youth, finance and investment, enterprise development, health, and evaluation and learning.
• Banyan Global is the prime recipient of the USAID-funded Nigeria Health Workforce Management (HWM) Activity. The HWM Activity is a five-year task order to support the establishment of a cost-effective, well trained, and motivated health workforce, particularly in targeted rural and remote areas of Bauchi, Ebonyi, Kebbi, and Sokoto States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). By its conclusion, HWM is expected to have supported the production of 10,000 new health workers that are competent to respond to the current and future population health needs in these locations; improved the distribution and skill mix of front-line workers to meet specific local demands; and strengthened the capacity of pre-service institutions to adopt and apply innovative education approaches.
• Targeted interventions will contribute to:
  • Improved management of maternal, child, and newborn health conditions and
  • Increased responsiveness to community health needs.
• USAID supports the Government of Nigeria’s (GON’s) commitment to plan, recruit, train, manage, and retain its primary healthcare (PHC) workforce.
• This activity will contribute to the achievement of USAID/Nigeria’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) Development Objective 2 “a healthier, more educated population in targeted states” and Intermediate Result (IR) 2.1 “Utilization of quality health services in targeted areas and population groups increased.”

About the Position

• The Technical Director is based in Abuja and reports to the Country Director.
• The Technical Director will work with the team to ensure that HWM activities are of high quality and adhere to global standards, national policies, and best practices for human resources system strengthening.
• The Technical Director will also ensure the adaptation and integration of emerging knowledge and innovative solutions to achieve the objectives of the HWM activity.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and strategy that translate to strengthened human resources for health (HRH) management systems, improved state government’s HRH leadership and governance; improved capacity of the states to effectively utilize available HRH to meet local needs; strengthened pre-service health training institutions; and advocating for an enabling HRH policy environment
• Identify, integrate and scale-up best practices in workforce performance management to improve productivity and retention of health workforce
• Oversee improvements to in-service training system and performance by supporting the GON in its stewardship role
• Maintain strong results focus with partners, and provide regular technical input into, and support for, the implementation of work plans
• Ensure synergy in project activities and that they follow all award conditions and State-specific special provisions
• Oversee the timely delivery of high-quality technical and financial project reports
• Deputize for the Country Director as the occasions arise

Qualifications

• Post-graduate Degree in Public Health, Health Systems, Health Policy and Planning, or other related field
• 5 years experience
• Direct relevant experience in designing and implementing HRH programs in the areas of pre-service training, in-service training, human resource information systems (HRISs), HRH policy research and implementation, HRH leadership strengthening, HRH monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and HRH retention
• Familiarity and experience working with key government agencies that are responsible for HRH especially at the PHC level
• Good understanding of the HRH situational analyses of project implementation 4+1 states
• Experience overseeing the HRH strengthening activities delivered by local grantees
• Experience leading the technical components of consortium partners
• Excellent organizational, analytical, oral and written communications skills in English; demonstrated supervisory skills; and ability to work well in a team.