Job Openings at Palladium Group

Ref No: req9778
Location: Kebbi, Nigeria
Duration: 5 years

Project Overview and Role
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Driver is a full-time position to support the Nigeria Integrated Health Program staff in the safe transport of team members and deliveries. Under immediate supervision of the Logistics Assistant.

Responsibilities

• Drive vehicles as directed, including transporting staff to the field, performing pickups and delivery tasks; responsible for routine vehicle maintenance, including inspecting the vehicle; noting damage, scratches, malfunctions, or problems and reporting any faults to senior driver; and ensuring vehicles are clean, well maintained, and road worthy at all times
• Compile trip reports for drivers and weekly log sheets and enter into the fuel consumption report; process monthly fuel requests and consolidate fuel liquidations for office vehicles
• Ensure that self and all passengers are wearing seatbelts prior to departure, including those in the back seat
• Report any accidents involved while driving project vehicle to the police and appropriate authorities; ensure vehicle has all the required forms before starting a trip.
• Act as administrative assistant, when not driving.
• Performs any other duties that may be assigned from time to time by the supervisor

Required Qualifications
The Driver should:

• Have an Ordinary National Diploma (OND);
• Be able to communicate in English language;
• Have a minimum of 5 years work experience in a similar position within any reputable organization or within an international development project will be an added advantage;
• Understand the mechanics of vehicles as this will be advantageous;
• Have demonstrable knowledge of Nigerian road networks
• Have demonstrable knowledge of Nigerian driving codes and regulations
• Ability to drive and work long hours
• Familiar with the culture of the area.
• Familiar with the local terrain and routes and respond appropriately, in case of emergency.
• Knowledge and fluent understanding of Hausa language will be an added advantage

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Ref No: req8227

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads implementation of the project’s communication and knowledge management strategy in the State;
• Captures and documents lessons learned, success stories and champions the scaling-up of best practices;
• Works with the state M&E team to support preparation of high-quality project reports and documentation;
• Contributes to content management of the external website and intranet if required;
• Facilitates knowledge management (KM) and communication-related capacity development events and sharing of best practices;
• Ensures compliance with the IHP branding and marking strategy;
• Develops communications campaigns to highlight thematic topic areas as necessary, and helps develop and implement engagement strategies;
• Facilitates linkages and partnerships with media organizations to promote ongoing conversation about health issues relevant to IHP work
• Organizes and backstops webinars and other learning events, as needed;
• Facilitates media and social media administrative processes if required.
• Reports to Knowledge Management and Communications Specialist at ACO and supervised by Senior MEL Manager

Required Qualifications

• The Knowledge Management Specialist must be experienced in public health/public health communication, international development, or related field.
• S/he will have demonstrated experience working with complex health or development projects that required collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
• S/he must be familiar with the public context in Nigeria and have in-country experience with USAID / International donor programs.  

Additional qualifications include:

• A Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Knowledge Management, Public Policy Communications or related field. A Master’s degree will be a plus.
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in communications, health communications/reporting, knowledge management, social media or related field, and working in public health with USAID/International Donor Programs.
• Demonstrated strength and experience writing project reports (progress updates, monthly, quarterly, annual), technical reports, and policy briefs
• Proven ability to lead the planning, coordination and execution of communications products
• Proven ability to work collaboratively and build consensus across diverse sets of stakeholders
• Experience in client relationship management, reporting, program work planning is preferred.
• Prior experience working with USG-funded programs is required
• Fluent in English (written and oral communication) and Hausa.
• Strong verbal, listening, writing and oral communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to establish and maintain strong working relationships with IHP internal and external stakeholders
• Experience at organizing and facilitating systems strengthening, capacity development and mentoring processes
• Competency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and graphics design software.

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Job ref.: req9773

Background
Propcom Mai-Karfi was a six year DFID programme aimed at increasing incomes for the poor in Northern Nigeria through enhanced employment opportunities for increased employment and improved productivity in selected agricultural market systems in northern Nigeria. It now has a three-year extension 2018-2021 to work in a reduced number of states from mid-2018:

• Tier 1 (Borno, Adamawa and Yobe);
• Tier 2 (Gombe, Taraba and Bauchi) and
• Partnership states / Tier 3 (Kaduna, Kano and Jigawa).

Purpose

• To provide field level support and information sharing for Propcom Mai-karfi programme interventions in specific markets (market chains & sectors) in accordance with the overall programme strategy within a given state.

Scope of Work:

• The State Embedded Officer supports the delivery of a number of programme interventions within a given state. This will involve field support in implementing the design, communicating, giving data / evidence when required for monitoring and reporting on all assigned interventions to line manager.  
• S / he will develop and maintain close relationships with project partners while supporting the implementation of project interventions to contribute to the delivery of agreed milestones.
• Based in Gombe state, this post will require frequent travel to the field.
• The Propcom Mai-karfi staff work as an integrated team. The State Embedded Officer will be expected to contribute to other aspects of the programme.

Specific Responsibilities
The State Embedded Officer will be responsible for the following:

• Assist in local stakeholder analysis of selected commodity chains, and also identify and establish contact with potential agents of change.
• When required, liaise with the Results Measurement (RM) team through the Tier Lead and Market Manager on the development and implementation of appropriately tailored research tools and methods for the collection and collation of relevant information from the field.
• Assist in collecting baseline data related to interventions targeted for study or implementation by the project.
• Assist the Market Manager in the development of relevant grant agreements, Collaboration Agreements, ToRs and any other administrative and managerial requirement for the interventions
• Conduct regular field visits to ensure proper implementation of activities.
• Remain aware of, and report to the Market Manager on, developments in the relevant sectors / markets / commodity chains.
• Help identify market failures and pressure points for addressing them; help identify ways to render a given market more functional and efficient, in a manner that will benefit the poor.
• Provide weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports on programme interventions where required by Market Manager, including impact assessment reports. Also provide relevant ongoing intervention activity feedback including formal and informal feedback from the field.
• At field level represent the programme in selected markets, displaying courtesy, tact, consideration and discretion in all interactions with partners, other members of the programme, and with the public.
• Take part in facilitating and managing the work of partners / co-facilitators / service providers of programme and ensure “value for money” for the tasks given.
• Support the Tier Lead, Market Manager and Results Measurement staff by being the linkage with markets,and interventions for the delivery of programme action plans and milestones.

Working Relationships:

• The State Embedded Officer will report to the Market Manager.
• S / he will also be expected to work closely with the Results Measurement team of the programme with information gathering on progress for all interventions in a given state.
• S / he will also be expected to establish and maintain good and effective working relationships with other members of the Propcom Mai-karfi team, in particular the programme’s Support team.
• The State Embedded Officer will work closely with all market partners and will be the infield face of the programme in Gombe state.

Location of Post:

• The post is domiciled in Gombe state however the incumbent will be required to make frequent travels within the State and occasionally to other Northern States.

Required Qualifications
The State Embedded Officer should have:

• A Degree, High Diploma or similar qualification in Business, Economics, Agriculture or Development Studies;
• Work experience in activities related to agricultural commodities and rural development, with some experience working with the private sector and confirmed knowledge of the institutions and organisations that provide services to the agricultural sector in Nigeria;
• Experience in data gathering and writing reports;
• Ability to influence a range of people including client organisations, government agencies and other key stakeholders by building constructive relationships through clear communication and generate effective discussion and mutual support for plans and ideas.
• Fluency in English and Hausa is essential, and proficiency in other local languages desirable.

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Ref No: req8708

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• The Integrated Health Project (IHP) aims to strengthen local capacity and systems to contribute to reductions in child and maternal morbidity and mortality in target states, and to increase the capacity of health systems (public and private) to sustainably support quality primary healthcare.
• The Monitoring and Evaluation Offer contributes to the development and implementation of the Task Order (TO) 4 MELP to systematically document performance for technical team to ensure the state implementation is on track.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the development and implementation of the state MELP to systematically document performance for technical team to ensure the state implementation is on track
• Generates robust evidence for programmatic learning that leads to action, decision making, and impact
• Together with Senior MEL Manager, ensures the alignment of M&E activities with program goals and contributes to the development of annual work plans to identify state targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities
• Monitors project activities and tracks these activities against the state results framework
• Conducts visits to LGAs as necessary for data validation to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets
• Generates monthly indicator reports and tracking progress against key indicators
• Works closely with the state stakeholders and trains M&E staff at the LGA, facility, and community levels to build their M&E capacity
• Contributes to the identification, analysis, and synthesis of technical knowledge and evidence-based information in intervention areas including family planning, reproductive, maternal and child health, malaria, nutrition and immunization.
• Reports directly to Senior MEL Manager

Required Qualifications

• The State level Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer will have experience working with facility level M&E of public health programs.
• The Officer will have expertise and up-to-date knowledge and skills in M&E for health systems and healthcare provision programming, and experience working with different cadres of government.
• S/he must be intimately familiar with the public context in Nigeria and have in-country experience with USAID / International donor programs.

Additional qualifications include:

• A Bachelor's degree / HND in demography, statistics, social sciences, public health, health information management or related field, Masters Preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience designing, implementing, monitoring, evaluation and learning tasks for health and/or development projects
• Familiarity with USAID / International indicators and standard measurement tools in the areas of reproductive health/family planning, maternal and neonatal health and other relevant technical areas
• Competency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and ACCESS, and a statistical software package (SPSS, EPI-INFO, STATA, SAS or similar
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work with relevant government partners, USAID, other Donors, and implementing partners
• Good verbal, listening, writing, and intrapersonal skills essential for effective interaction among several institutions and staff involved in a broad range of activities
• Experience at organizing and facilitating systems strengthening, capacity development and mentoring processes
• Fluent in English (written and oral communication) and Hausa

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Ref No: req9776

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• The Health System Coordinators shall be based at strategically located Local Government Health Authorities (LGHAs).
• The IHP Health System Strengthening (HSS) Coordinators will be responsible for providing technical assistance and capacity building across the building blocks of the health system and enhance the utilization of data for decision-making and apply adaptive management at the LGHA  (6-7), PHC and community to continually strengthen accountability, systems and services for  reduced child and maternal morbidity and mortality.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and support LGHA officials to adopt and effectively implement state-wide policies including, but not limited to, Primary Health Care Under One Roof (PHCUOR), PHC revitalization, Integrated Supportive Supervision, and integrated RMNCH+N and malaria
• Build capacity of LGHAs to strengthen Facility Management Committees (FMC), Quality Improvement Teams and Ward Development Committees (WDCs) to fulfill their functions and work with health providers to improve integrated primary health care
• Provide guidance to LGHA’s to enhance HRH availability and performance of integrated primary health care through appropriate training, mentoring and integrated supportive supervision to facility (PHC) and community-based structures (WDCs/VDCs and community-based health workers/volunteers)
• Support the implementation of strategic plans for Human Resources for Health at the LGHA and PHC levels that are based on evidence and are designed to support improvements in RMNCH+N and malaria
• Provide technical leadership to and build capacity of LGHA officials to use available data and information to make strategic decisions for planning, budgeting and supervising systems for health financing, health workforce, service delivery, supply chain, governance and accountability
• Works with LGHAs to strengthen institutional and financial capacity for quality PHC service delivery, incorporating new and innovative approaches as appropriate for FMCs and WDCs
• Participate in catchment LGHAs’ planning meetings, to provide guidance and adapt/target IHP technical assistance plans, as necessary to address needs
• Conduct regular internal review and analysis of program and quality improvement data for catchment LGHAs to determine progress towards goals and gaps and develop plans for technical assistance to address gaps
• Provide support to LGHA and facility officials to explore opportunities to collaborate with the private sector to improve RMNCH health outcomes
• Coordinate scheduling of program-wide technical assistance activities for catchment LGHAs
• Provide clear documentation of programmatic achievements and keep state management team informed on monthly, quarterly and annual basis
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor which contribute to the achievement of program goals
• Reports to the Kebbi IHP Governance and Leadership Advisor

Required Qualifications

• A graduate degree in Public Health, Health Planning, Health Policy or related courses (e.g. MBBS, RN etc.) with extensive field experience in managing health programs in Nigeria. A postgraduate degree in health systems or public health will be an added advantage
• At least 3-5 years of experience working on Health Systems Strengthening in developing countries, preferably in Nigeria
• The HSS Coordinator must be an experienced professional in the field of health systems strengthening, primary health care, and have capacity building and project management experience in public health programs
• The HSS Coordinator must be intimately familiar with the context in Nigeria and have in-country experience with USAID programs
• Demonstratable capacity to network and negotiate with key stakeholders across different sectors in support of health
• Strong skills in design, implementation and monitoring of program components; e.g. health systems strengthening, qual training, supportive supervision, advocacy and coordination
• Excellent facilitation and mentoring skills’ supporting decentralized entities to translate policies into strategic plans for implementation; and computer literacy in spread sheets is a must
• Experience with technical assistance for programs funded by USAID and/or other donor programs in developing countries, with significant Nigeria experience
• Strong verbal, listening, writing, and interpersonal skills essential for effective coordination among several institutions and staff involved in a broad range of activities
• Fluent in English, (written and oral communication) and Hausa and/or Fulfulde
• Willingness to travel throughout Kebbi state as necessary