Job Openings at Palladium Group

The Nutrition Advisor is a full-time position and will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the activity's nutrition program to improve maternal, newborn and child health outcomes. The Nutrition Advisor will be responsible for providing leadership in nutrition capacity building, clinical mentoring and supportive supervision in the technical area of nutrition for an upcoming USAID award in Nigeria. They will provide technical assistance at the country-level and state nutrition advisors to support nutrition-related activities including integrated primary health care activities and support to strengthen community-based services to enhance access, referrals and linkages to the formal PHC system.

• This is a proposal position and is contingent upon an award from USAID. 

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance on nutrition-specific interventions through Primary Healthcare and community-based platforms.
• Guidance must be sound, evidence-based and responsive to the needs of the Nigerian Government and USAID.
• Provide technical leadership and build local capacity using proven training approaches on promotion of exclusive breastfeeding through the revised WHO guidelines for Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative and Community Initiatives, as well as
• Comprehensive Infant and Young Child Feeding practices.
• Provide curriculum review, revision, and master training oversight and follow-up clinical mentoring to promote maternal nutrition (nutrition in pregnancy, nutrition while breastfeeding, management of diarrhea), and nutrition through the lifecycle with emphasis on complementary feeding (6-23 months) and dietary diversity.
• Provide guidance on how to incorporate high impact nutrition services into antenatal, intra and post-partum care, as well as integrated management of childhood illness and integrated community case management protocols.
• Provide guidance to facilities (PHC) and community-based structures to enhance community-based nutrition counseling and case detection and referral of MAM/CMAM cases for appropriate treatment and counseling.
• Liaise with M&E and SPHCDA staff to encourage case management, follow-up, and surveillance of nutritional status.
• Contribute to annual work planning, training plans and quarterly reports and other required technical reports.
• Contribute to timely, accurate and appropriate reporting of program activities and results.
• Ensure quality program implementation consistent with MOH Nigerian Guidelines, global best practices and USAID Nigerian Strategic Directions.
• Evaluate program progress against deliverables on a quarterly basis
• With other technical area leads, collaborate on program design, implementation, quality assurance and monitoring of work plan.
• Coordinate with the other NGO partners to develop and implement feasible facility and community-based approaches.

Key Competencies Required

• Master’s degree or higher in Human Nutrition, Public Health or related field
• Minimum 7 years of experience working in Nutrition in Africa, preferably in Nigeria.
• Demonstrated expertise in working directly with host-country senior government officials and policy makers in nutrition and MNCH.
• Experience working with host-country partners, organizations, and institutions
• Strong skills in design, implementation and monitoring of program components; e.g. services, training, supportive supervision, clinical mentoring, patient counseling, advocacy and coordination.
• Experience with technical leadership for programs funded by USAID and/or other donor programs in developing countries, with significant Nigeria experience.
• Strong verbal, listening, writing, and intrapersonal skills essential for effective coordination among several institutions and staff involved in a broad range of activities.
• Fluent in English, (written and oral communication)
• Willingness to travel throughout Nigeria as necessary.

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The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Director is a full-time position and will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the program monitoring and evaluation framework and information system to track delivery against targets/projections, indicators, outcomes, and impact. They will be responsible for ensuring valid and verifiable data collection, reporting and analysis, and communicating program results to USAID and external stakeholders. They will link M&E data to a process of learning and iterative adaptation.

• This is a proposal position and is contingent upon an award from USAID. 

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Work closely with Technical Leads as part of the senior leadership team to determine and support the project's strategic objectives.
• Lead the development and monitoring of annual MEL workplans, and review and update the project’s MEL plan on an on-going basis.
• Develop and implement a framework for project results measurement, accountability, learning and development effectiveness to measure and report project success, including articulation of Theories of Change (ToC).
• Work closely with the technical leads of project components to ensure compatibility and coordination within the M&E framework and ensure that the MEL system adheres to USAID guidelines and meets the needs of the program for learning, analysis, and reporting.
• Focus on strengthening the M&E system, building capacity of partners and staff, and improving alignment and support to host-country M&E systems.
• Institute routine data reviews as part of an adaptive management process including analysing, interpreting, and presenting data to project management and technical leads
• Responsible for developing and designing project systems to track program progress against indicators, collecting and verifying information and maintaining performance monitoring plans, reports, work plans and monthly reports.

Key Competencies Required

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in developing and implementing MEL and Continued Learning and Adaptive Management preferably for a USAID or similar donor funded programs.
• Master’s degree or higher in M&E, Statistics, Economics, Public Health or related field.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and utilizing monitoring tools related to program and project monitoring.
• Proficiency in using large national health-related and service delivery databases.
• Proficiency in using data collection, cleaning and analysis software.
• Demonstrated experience in establishing and managing MEL systems that track project performance and results and
• USAID's standard foreign assistance indicators.
• Demonstrated analytical skills to measure the outcomes of the project’s activities and support project supervision
• Demonstrated experience in gathering, organizing, and analyzing large amounts of data as well as the ability to design manageable, transparent M&E systems that report progress against indicators throughout the life
• Prior experience developing, implementing, and managing performance monitoring plans (PMPs).
• Excellent organizational and management skills to manage MEL teams and activities
• Demonstrated experience with complex donor-funded development projects
• Strong understanding of USAID regulations and M&E reporting requirements, preferably in the [the proposal and envisioned project/activity] sector.

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This activity will provide relevant training for health care workers and is expected to build awareness and equip current and future facility-based and public health practitioners with the necessary multi-sectoral skills and capacities to address old and emerging infectious diseases, maternal, newborn and child health diseases. This activity will also strengthen the interoperability between paper-based and electronic health information management systems and improve surveillance and public health functions of primary and secondary health care facilities.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities
 

• The Communication Specialist will lead the implementation of the activity's communication and knowledge management strategy
• Document lessons learned, and success stories, and scale-up best practices.
• Work with the state knowledge management and M&E team to support preparation of high-quality project reports and documentation; contribute to content management of the external website and intranet if required.
• Facilitate knowledge management (KM) and communication-related capacity development events and sharing of best practices.
• Ensure compliance with the branding and marking strategy; develop communications campaigns to highlight thematic topic areas as necessary and helps develop and implement engagement strategies.
• Facilitate linkages and partnerships with media organizations to promote ongoing conversation about health issues relevant to project.
• Organize and backstops webinars and other learning events, as needed.

Key Competencies Required

The Communications 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 require 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 a related field. A master's degree will be a plus.
• Minimum of 7 years' experience in communications, health communications/reporting, knowledge management 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, and 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.