Jobs at Kainuwa Sustainale Development Foundations (KSDF)

Background

• The Gombe State Delivery and Insights Unit (SDIU) aims to strengthen the state’s existing health-system architecture by creating a consistent mechanism that connects data, management decisions, coordinated implementation, follow-up and escalation.
• The SDIU works to strengthen existing statutory functions and connect them into one repeatable evidence-to-decision-to-action cycle. it will connect leadership structures, technical forums, delivery agencies and data systems into one government-led decision-to-action mechanism.
• The SDIU is not intended to operate as a parallel programme management unit, replace existing government institutions, duplicate technical committees, or assume responsibility for programme implementation.

Role Purpose

• To serve as the analytical-management bridge within the DMU by converting fragmented technical updates, committee submissions, Execution Grant progress, AOP tracking and DIU findings into concise management problems and decision-ready briefs.
• The role interprets implementation, institutional dependencies and programme progress and translates them into management decisions.

Key Responsibilities
Consolidate implementation evidence:

• Receive and synthesize submissions from existing technical committees and TWGs.
• Review Execution Grant milestones, AOP actions and partner implementation updates.
• Identify duplicate, inconsistent or conflicting progress reports across mechanisms.

Frame management problems:

• Work with DIU colleagues to determine whether a programme concern is supported by available evidence.
• Develop structured problem statements covering what is happening, where, since when, likely drivers, what has already been tried and what decision is needed.
• Distinguish technical issues, coordination issues and matters requiring leadership authority.

Prepare decision products:

• Prepare TMT decision briefs with options, implications and recommended accountable institutions.
• Maintain a cross-cutting view of dependencies across service delivery, financing, supply chain, HRH and data.
• Support the Senior TA in identifying repeated system constraints requiring policy or structural action.

Minimize reporting burden:

• Avoid creating additional programme reporting requests where AOP, grant or committee reports can provide the necessary information.
• Work with the TMT Secretary to establish one authoritative action narrative for each priority issue.

Key Deliverables

• Monthly integrated programme-performance narrative.
• Decision briefs for TMT agenda items.
• Cross-cutting risk and dependency register.
• Quarterly analysis of repeated delivery bottlenecks.
• Consolidated view of AOP and Execution Grant risks.

Suggested performance indicators:

• Percentage of TMT agenda items supported by decision-ready briefs.
• Reduction in agenda items returned because evidence or decision asks are unclear.
• Evidence that TMT decisions increasingly address root causes rather than symptoms.

Recommended Profile / Capabilities

• Mid-to-senior programme-management professional with strong public-health understanding and background
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience in programme analysis, management
• Master’s Degree in a relevant field is desirable.
• Strong analytical reasoning and structured problem solving.
• Excellent executive-writing and synthesis capability.
• Ability to work across programmes, agencies and data sources without becoming the technical owner of those programmes.
• Demonstrate experience preparing high-level analytical reports and executive decision materials.
• Strong experience synthesizing information from multiple technical and organizational sources.
• Experience working with senior management, governance committees, or executive decision-making structures.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills.
• Strong ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines simultaneously.

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Background

• Kainuwa Sustainable Development Foundation (KSDF) is implementing and supporting an expanding portfolio of health systems strengthening, primary healthcare, institutional capacity-building, and social-development interventions. Current and emerging areas of work include:
  • The Gombe State Execution Grant and technical support to the State Delivery/Health Delivery Implementation Unit (SDIU/HDIU).
  • Health-facility performance, PHC functionality, implementation discipline, quality improvement, and accountability initiatives.
  • Technical assistance to the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, including Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) and Human Resources for Health (HRH).
  • Community and charitable health interventions, education support, and other social-development activities.
  • Research, policy development, evidence synthesis, proposal development, stakeholder engagement, and implementation support to government institutions and partners.
• The growing breadth of this portfolio requires reliable day-to-day technical coordination, documentation, evidence synthesis, implementation follow-up, field coordination, and structured programme management assistance.
• KSDF therefore requires a Technical Assistant – Health Systems & Programme Implementation based in its Abuja Office.

Role Rationale

• This role is designed as a cross-cutting technical programme position rather than a clinical nursing post. It translates frontline clinical(Primary health care) and community-health experience into practical programme implementation, technical documentation, research, stakeholder coordination, quality improvement, and health-systems support across KSDF investments.
• Capability - Area How the Role Uses It:
  • PHC & frontline insight - Applies practical understanding of service delivery, maternal and newborn health, community health, quality of care, infection prevention, referral pathways, and frontline operational realities.
  • Programme implementation & coordination - Supports workplans, technical activities, field implementation, action follow-up, programme coordination, and delivery of assigned technical tasks.
  • Technical documentation & research - Prepares meeting packs, technical notes, minutes, action matrices, briefs, workshop reports, literature summaries, and structured follow-up for programme teams.
  • Community & stakeholder engagement - Supports outreach, community engagement, beneficiary case support, stakeholder consultations, workshops, and documentation of charitable and social-development activities.
• The Technical Assistant will provide day-to-day technical, programme coordination, documentation, research, field implementation, stakeholder engagement, and administrative support across KSDF’s health and social-development programmes.
• The role will strengthen the ability of senior technical staff to manage multiple investments by ensuring that routine technical work, research, documentation, stakeholder follow-up, meeting preparation, field coordination, and narrative reporting are undertaken consistently and to a high standard.

Key Responsibilities
General Technical Programme Support:

• Support technical staff in planning and implementing KSDF programmes and technical assistance activities.
• Undertake background research and evidence reviews for programme activities.
• Assist in preparing technical notes, briefing papers, presentations, and reports.
• Support development and review of programme workplans, activity schedules, budgets, and implementation plan and schedules Including other programme documents.
• Maintain trackers for technical deliverables, milestones, decisions, and agreed actions.
• Follow up internally with responsible personnel on technical assignments and deadlines.
• Assist in coordinating and consolidating technical inputs from programme teams, consultants, and partners.
• Support preparation of technical meetings, workshops, and stakeholder engagements.
• Draft meeting minutes, aide-memoires, action matrices, and follow-up notes.
• Maintain organised electronic repositories of programme and technical documents.
• Support preparation of donor/partner updates and routine technical correspondence.
• Participate in field visits and implementation activities as required.

SDIU/HDIU and Gombe Execution Grant Support:

• Support preparation for routine SDIU/HDIU implementation and performance-review meetings and related technical engagements.
• Assist in preparing agendas, briefing notes, meeting packs, and technical materials required for implementation and performance-review meetings.
• Support review and organisation of technical submissions, meeting papers, and programme documents requiring management follow-up.
• Maintain action trackers arising from performance reviews, workshops, and technical meetings.
• Follow up with relevant programme personnel on agreed activities, owners, and deadlines.
• Support documentation of implementation bottlenecks, corrective actions, and resolutions.
• Assist with preparation of presentations, briefing notes, technical summaries, and meeting packs.
• Participate in facility/LGA implementation visits, stakeholder consultations, and learning visits, and document agreed follow-up actions.
• Support preparation of narrative sections of quarterly and milestone Execution Grant reports and maintain well-organised supporting documentation for assigned deliverables.
• Assist with documentation of lessons learned, achievements, case examples, and emerging implementation issues.
• Support coordination between KSDF, government agencies, implementing partners, and technical consultants.

Federal HSS/HRH Technical Assistance:

• Support preparation of HSS and HRH technical meetings, consultations, workshops, and working sessions.
• Undertake targeted background research requested by senior technical advisers.
• Assist in reviewing, organising, and summarising national and subnational health policy and strategy documents.
• Support evidence synthesis, literature reviews, and preparation of technical background notes.
• Assist with documentation relating to HRH strategy, workforce planning, governance, and institutional strengthening.
• Maintain workplan, consultancy, and deliverable trackers.
• Coordinate documentation received from consultants and government counterparts and maintain orderly technical repositories.
• Support technical working-group meetings, workshop reports, consultation summaries, and follow-up of agreed actions.
• Assist in preparing and formatting technical products, presentations, and briefing materials.
• The Technical Assistant will support, but will not independently lead, complex HRH policy analysis, workforce planning, or senior policy advisory work.

PHC, MNCH and Community Health Support:

• Provide implementation support to PHC-related activities and selected health service-delivery initiatives.
• Assist technical teams in reviewing programme approaches from a frontline service-delivery perspective.
• Support maternal, newborn, child, and reproductive-health activities where relevant.
• Participate in technical reviews of service-delivery processes, referral pathways, workflow, and facility functionality where required.
• Assist with preparation of PHC implementation tools, checklists, and orientation materials.
• Support community-engagement, health-education, and outreach activities.
• Participate in field implementation and learning visits, documenting frontline service-delivery challenges, agreed actions, and technical support needs.
• Support quality-of-care and infection-prevention activities where appropriately assigned.

Technical Research and Knowledge Management:

• Conduct targeted literature, policy, and document searches under supervision.
• Compile reference materials and prepare concise summaries of policies, guidelines, and programme reports.
• Assist with rapid evidence reviews, benchmarking exercises, and meeting background notes.
• Maintain structured electronic reference libraries and programme knowledge repositories.
• Assist with drafting programme concepts, technical proposals, and selected narrative sections of reports.
• Document programme learning, best practices and support development of case studies, success stories, and learning products.
• Document, implementation challenges, and recommendations for programme improvement.
• Maintain appropriate document version control and archives of technical outputs.

Workshops, Meetings and Stakeholder Coordination:

• Support preparation of agendas, participant materials, presentations, and meeting packs.
• Coordinate technical inputs required ahead of meetings and workshops.
• Take structured meeting notes and prepare action matrices with owners and deadlines.
• Track post-meeting commitments and follow up on assigned actions.
• Support documentation of workshops, consultations, and technical working-group meetings.
• Maintain stakeholder contact and engagement records where required.
• Support professional and effective communication with government, partners, consultants, and other stakeholders to to facilitate timely implementation

Health Commodities and Programme Logistics Support:

• Support technical planning for programme commodities, supplies, and relevant equipment required for programme activities.
• Help programme teams define commodity and equipment requirements for workshops, outreach activities, and field implementation.
• Liaise with Operations and Procurement colleagues to ensure technical specifications and quantities reflect programme needs.
• Document and promptly escalate operational concerns relating to commodity availability, usability, or equipment readiness raised during implementation.
• Provide appropriate frontline clinical input on the use, handling, storage, and readiness of relevant medical supplies and equipment within the limits of the role.
• Support preparation of commodity-related technical checklists,  job aids, and activity documentation.
• These responsibilities are technical support functions and do not replace KSDF’s formal procurement, logistics, finance, or asset-control processes.

Quality Improvement and Frontline Clinical Perspective:

• Support development and use of simple quality-improvement tools and practical facility-support checklists.
• Participate in technical walkthroughs and reviews of selected service-delivery processes.
• Support documentation of quality-of-care, infection-prevention, workflow, staffing, referral, and commodity gaps where relevant.
• Help programme teams understand practical frontline operational challenges and identify issues for escalation.
• Support documentation of improvement actions and relevant capacity-building activities.
• The position is not primarily a practising nursing role; its purpose is to translate frontline clinical experience into stronger programme implementation and health-systems support.

Documentation and Programme Administration:

• Maintain organised programme files, technical workplans, calendars, and deadline trackers.
• Support preparation of technical correspondence and maintain action logs and decision registers.
• Compile supporting documents required for programme and donor reporting.
• Contribute and assist with formatting concept notes, briefs, technical reports, presentations, and workshop materials.
• Coordinate document reviews and maintain appropriate version control.
• Undertake other programme and technical assignments reasonably required by KSDF management

Key Deliverables

• Up-to-date workplans, technical action matrices, and assignment schedules.
• High-quality documentation of assigned technical meetings, consultations, and workshops.
• Timely preparation of meeting briefs, presentations, and supporting technical materials.
• Regular programme implementation summaries and follow-up notes.
• Well-organized supporting-document files for assigned programme deliverables.
• Technical background notes, rapid evidence summaries, and document syntheses as requested.
• Timely SDIU/HDIU performance-review support and follow-up of agreed actions.
• Field implementation, supportive-supervision, and activity reports.
• Documentation and narrative-reporting support for quarterly/milestone Execution Grant requirements.
• Documentation and coordination support for FMoH HSS/HRH activities.
• Reports and records from assigned charitable/community interventions.
• At least two programme case studies, lessons-learned notes, or knowledge products annually.
• A properly maintained electronic technical-document repository with clear version control.

Key Performance Indicators
Performance - Area Indicative KPI:

• Technical assignments - At least 90% completed within agreed timelines and to the required standard.
• Meeting documentation - Minutes/action matrix completed and circulated within 48-72 hours unless otherwise agreed.
• Action follow-up - At least 90% of assigned actions followed up within each agreed review cycle.
• Programme documentation - Supporting documents for assigned deliverables are complete, organised, and readily retrievable.
• Field implementation support - Activity/debrief reports completed within the agreed post-activity timeline.
• Writing quality - Technical and narrative outputs require minimal substantive correction after supervisor review.
• Deliverable coordination - No avoidable missed programme deadlines attributable to poor follow-up or coordination.
• Stakeholder coordination - Agreed stakeholder actions are documented, communicated, and followed through consistently.
• Research support - Technical summaries are accurate, concise, appropriately referenced, and responsive to the assignment.
• Professional development - Demonstrable improvement in programme management, HSS concepts, policy analysis, technical writing, and facilitation.

Qualifications and Experience
Essential:

• Registered Nurse or other recognised health professional qualification.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, Public Health, Health Sciences, or a related discipline desirable.
• Practical experience in healthcare delivery, public-health programming, or community-health activities.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Basic competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, and related office applications.
• Ability to organise, review, and summarise technical information.
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams and across multiple projects.
• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and willingness to travel within Nigeria.

Desirable:

• Experience with donor-funded projects or development-sector programmes.
• Exposure to government health programmes and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience in field programme implementation, community engagement, supportive supervision, or quality improvement.
• Knowledge of PHC, MNCH, community health, or health promotion programming.
• Experience supporting workshops, trainings, or technical meetings.
• Experience supporting programme documentation, technical reporting, stakeholder follow-up, or implementation coordination.
• Experience in medical inventory or logistics management.
• Familiarity with health systems strengthening concepts and programme implementation.

Required Competencies:
Technical Competencies - Behavioural Competencies:

• Health programme implementation - Strong organisational ability PHC and community health Attention to detail
• MNCH and frontline service delivery - Professionalism and integrity
• Basic HSS concepts - Confidentiality and sound judgement
• Technical research and evidence synthesis - Initiative and reliability
• Technical documentation and narrative reporting - Strong follow-through
• Stakeholder coordination and workshop support - Teamwork and collaboration
• Community engagement and health promotion - Respectful stakeholder engagement
• Quality improvement and supportive supervision - Adaptability and willingness to learn
• Microsoft Office and records management - Ability to work under pressure

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Background

• The Gombe State Delivery and Insights Unit (SDIU) aims to strengthen the state’s existing health-system architecture by creating a consistent mechanism that connects data, management decisions, coordinated implementation, follow-up and escalation.
• The SDIU works to strengthen existing statutory functions and connect them into one repeatable evidence-to-decision-to-action cycle. it will connect leadership structures, technical forums, delivery agencies and data systems into one government-led decision-to-action mechanism.
• The SDIU is not intended to operate as a parallel programme management unit, replace existing government institutions, duplicate technical committees, or assume responsibility for programme implementation.

Role Purpose

• To strengthen coordination and follow-through across primary and secondary health-service delivery, with particular attention to issues that cut across GSPHCDA, HSMB, LGAs, facilities and Ministry of health Gombe-specific operating context

Key Responsibilities
PHC and secondary-care performance:

• Review service-delivery findings generated by the DIU and relevant technical forums.
• Identify issues requiring action beyond routine technical discussion.
• Work with GSPHCDA and HSMB focal persons to define implementable corrective actions.
• Track bottlenecks around staffing, facility functionality, referrals, service readiness and quality.

Referral and continuity of care:

• Identify breakdowns between community, PHC and secondary-care pathways.
• Support joint problem solving where weak referral completion, delayed approvals or facility capability contribute to poor outcomes.

HRH and facility functionality:

• Coordinate with the DIU on interpretation of HRH registry, biometric attendance, facility census and service-volume data.
• Distinguish nominal staffing availability from actual staff presence and productivity.
• Ensure workforce recommendations consider workload, readiness and geography rather than headcount alone.

HSMB and secondary-care strengthening:

• Recognize limitations created by paper-heavy hospital data systems.
• Avoid demanding high-frequency analytics from systems that cannot reliably produce them.
• Prioritize pragmatic improvements in record completeness, monthly validation and use of existing NHMIS tools before recommending sophisticated digital products.

Committee interface:

• Serve as primary DMU interface for committees covering PHC, HRH, service delivery, MPDSR, community engagement, gender, nutrition and related service-delivery issues.
• Ensure committee mandates remain intact and only unresolved or cross-institutional issues enter the DMU/TMT pathway.

Key deliverables:

• Monthly service-delivery bottleneck brief.
• Consolidated action tracker for GSPHCDA/HSMB-related TMT decisions.
• Cross-institutional problem-solving notes.
• Quarterly summary of recurring service-delivery constraints.
• Evidence-of-closure pack for completed actions.

Suggested performance indicators:

• Share of assigned actions completed on time.
• Reduction in repeatedly unresolved GSPHCDA/HSMB issues.
• Number of cross-agency bottlenecks resolved without unnecessary TMT escalation.
• Evidence that facility/service decisions increasingly use linked service, staffing and readiness information.

Recommended Profile / Capabilities

• Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Health Administration, Health Management, or a related discipline.
• Public-health or health-systems professional with strong experience in PHC and/or hospital service delivery.
• Minium of 7 years of relevant professional experience in health-sector management, service delivery, programme management and health systems strengthening.
• Strong understanding of RMNCAH+N, HRH, quality and facility operations.
• Experience coordinating government agencies and implementation partners.
• Strong problem-solving and programme-management skills.
• Demonstrate experience working with government across various levels of health facilities
• Strong understanding of PHC and hospital service-delivery systems and their operational interfaces.
• Demonstrate experience in implementation tracking, performance management, problem-solving, and stakeholder coordination.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with senior government officials and technical teams.

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Background

• The Gombe State Delivery and Insights Unit (SDIU) aims to strengthen the state’s existing health-system architecture by creating a consistent mechanism that connects data, management decisions, coordinated implementation, follow-up and escalation.
• The SDIU works to strengthen existing statutory functions and connect them into one repeatable evidence-to-decision-to-action cycle. it will connect leadership structures, technical forums, delivery agencies and data systems into one government-led decision-to-action mechanism.
• The SDIU is not intended to operate as a parallel programme management unit, replace existing government institutions, duplicate technical committees, or assume responsibility for programme implementation.

Role Purpose

• To translate GoHealth/GSCHMA information on enrolment, claims, provider behaviour, purchasing and financial access into actionable management issues and support follow-through on decisions affecting service access and provider performance.

Key Responsibilities
Interpret financing and insurance performance:

• Review enrolment, beneficiary, provider and claims trends with GoHealth.
• Monitor rejected/returned claims, turnaround times, provider response, beneficiary complaints and access barriers.
• Link financing information with DIU analysis of facility performance and service utilization.

Diagnose financing-related barriers:

• Identify where low utilization may be related to insurance coverage, affordability, provider readiness or referral constraints.
• Support follow-up on vulnerable-population coverage and hard-to-reach populations where data permit.
• Ensure financing indicators are interpreted alongside programme and service-delivery performance rather than as stand-alone metrics.

Coordinate and track action:

• Track financing-related TMT decisions and dependencies involving GoHealth, providers, Ministry departments or Finance.
• Coordinate closely with the Health Financing TWG without duplicating its technical mandate.
• Escalate cross-institutional constraints only where normal GoHealth or TWG processes cannot resolve them.

Key Deliverables

• Monthly financing/access exception brief.
• GoHealth-related decision and action tracker.
• Quarterly synthesis linking insurance performance to service utilization and provider performance.
• Escalation notes for financing bottlenecks requiring TMT intervention.

Suggested performance indicators:

• Proportion of priority GoHealth issues linked to clear corrective actions.
• Reduction in unresolved cross-institutional financing bottlenecks.
• Increased use of GoHealth information within integrated TMT review products.

Recommended Profile / Capabilities

• Experience in health financing, strategic purchasing, insurance, provider payment or public-sector financing.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience in health financing, health insurance, healthcare management, health economics, financial management and  health-system strengthening.
• Strong understanding of provider and beneficiary workflows.
• Ability to interpret financial and service-utilization data together.
• Experience working with Gombe state health systems preferred.
• Demonstrate experience working with government health-financing structures .
• Strong experience in programme implementation, performance management, and stakeholder coordination.
• Experience working with senior government officials and multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Strong written, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.

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Background

• The Gombe State Delivery and Insights Unit (SDIU) aims to strengthen the state’s existing health-system architecture by creating a consistent mechanism that connects data, management decisions, coordinated implementation, follow-up and escalation.
• The SDIU works to strengthen existing statutory functions and connect them into one repeatable evidence-to-decision-to-action cycle. it will connect leadership structures, technical forums, delivery agencies and data systems into one government-led decision-to-action mechanism.
• The SDIU is not intended to operate as a parallel programme management unit, replace existing government institutions, duplicate technical committees, or assume responsibility for programme implementation.

Role Purpose

• To ensure that supply-chain performance issues identified through GODMA/GoPharma, LMIS and service-delivery data are converted into coordinated management action and considered as part of wider facility-performance discussions.
• The Advisor’s role is to strengthen management follow-through around supply-chain constraints.

Key Responsibilities
Monitor priority supply-chain issues:

• Track availability, stock-outs, expiry/unusable stock, inventory turnover, procurement adherence and DRF-related performance.
• Use existing GODMA/GoPharma and LMIS outputs as the starting point rather than creating duplicate reporting.

Link commodities to service delivery:

• Work with DIU analysts to connect commodity availability with service volumes and facility performance.
• Distinguish supply problems caused by procurement, warehousing, ordering, distribution, financing, facility consumption practices or poor data quality.

Coordinate resolution and escalation:

• Support GODMA/GoPharma in resolving cross-institutional issues that exceed normal operational authority.
• Track TMT actions affecting procurement, distribution, financing or facility compliance.
• Ensure emerging integration with the state data environment is used rather than replicated through separate SDIU reporting.

Key Deliverables

• Monthly commodity exception and bottleneck brief.
• Supply-chain action tracker.
• Root-cause summaries for repeated commodity failures.
• Quarterly assessment of whether corrective actions improved commodity availability.

Suggested performance indicators:

• Reduction in repeated high-priority commodity bottlenecks.
• Share of supply-chain issues resolved within agreed timelines.
• Increased linkage between commodity and service-performance analysis.

Recommended Profile / Capabilities

• Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy, experience with Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Public Health, Health Administration, or a related discipline.
• Professional qualification in pharmacy or a related field is an advantage.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience in health commodities, pharmaceutical supply chains, logistics, programme management and  health-system strengthening
• Familiarity with LMIS, DRF and public-sector commodity systems.
• Strong ability to distinguish technical supply problems from coordination and financing constraints..
• Demonstrate experience managing or supporting public-sector medicines and health-commodity supply chains.
• Strong understanding of forecasting, quantification, procurement, warehousing, distribution, inventory management, and LMIS processes.
• Demonstrate experience working with government health institutions and multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in supply-chain performance management and bottleneck resolution.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management capabilities.

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Background

• The Gombe State Delivery and Insights Unit (SDIU) aims to strengthen the state’s existing health-system architecture by creating a consistent mechanism that connects data, management decisions, coordinated implementation, follow-up and escalation.
• The SDIU works to strengthen existing statutory functions and connect them into one repeatable evidence-to-decision-to-action cycle. it will connect leadership structures, technical forums, delivery agencies and data systems into one government-led decision-to-action mechanism.
• The SDIU is not intended to operate as a parallel programme management unit, replace existing government institutions, duplicate technical committees, or assume responsibility for programme implementation.

Role Purpose

• To serve as the principal technical and management adviser to the HCH during establishment and early operation of the SDIU, strengthening the Commissioner’s ability to coordinate the health sector across Ministry departments, GSPHCDA, HSMB, GoHealth/GSCHMA, GODMA/GoPharma, LGAs and partners while building a sustainable government-owned operating routine.

Key Responsibilities
Establish the SDIU operating model:

• Translate the approved architecture into practical operating arrangements, calendars, templates and decision pathways.
• Establish clear interfaces between the TMT, DMU, DIU, existing technical committees and implementation institutions.
• Ensure the SDIU does not duplicate Planning Cell, AOP, data-review, supportive-supervision or other existing state routines.
• Develop, test and refine SOPs for decision preparation, review, action tracking, escalation and closure.

Support the HCH-led TMT:

• Work with the HCH, TMT Secretary and Senior Programme Analyst to develop focused agendas around issues requiring leadership action.
• Ensure the TMT functions as a decision forum rather than a general presentation forum: each agenda item should state the problem, evidence, decision required, accountable owner and expected result.
• Support the HCH in distinguishing technical issues that should remain with existing committees from matters requiring senior leadership intervention.
• Help identify unresolved cross-agency constraints requiring escalation beyond the health sector.

Strengthen cross-institutional coordination:

• Facilitate resolution of dependencies across PHC, secondary care, health financing, commodities, HRH, planning and data.
• Ensure Management Advisors facilitate government delivery rather than substitute for agency programme managers.
• Support alignment of Execution Grant actions, AOP priorities and partner-supported interventions with government priorities.

Build delivery-management capability and transfer ownership:

• Coach the TMT Secretary and government counterparts on structured problem solving, review preparation, action management and escalation.
• Ensure every partner-supported role has a named government counterpart and documented transfer milestones.
• Periodically assess which routines can transition to government and recommend phased reduction of embedded TA.

Strengthen evidence use:

• Work with the Head of DIU to ensure TMT discussions use validated evidence rather than competing programme narratives.
• Ensure analytical findings are converted into clear management questions and choices.
• Promote triangulation where sources disagree rather than allowing one system to automatically override another.

Key Deliverables

• Operational SDIU SOP and review calendar.
• TMT agenda and decision-preparation protocol.
• Monthly synthesis of major cross-agency bottlenecks.
• Quarterly SDIU operating-model review.
• Government counterpart and capability-transfer plan.
• Periodic recommendations to the HCH on institutionalization and partner drawdown.

Suggested performance indicators:

• Share of TMT agenda items ending in a documented decision, owner and timeline.
• Share of escalated issues resolved within agreed timelines.
• Reduction in repeatedly overdue cross-agency actions.
• Progressive transfer of DMU routines to government counterparts.
• Evidence that partner-supported routines are incorporated into government structures rather than operated in parallel.

Recommended Profile / Capabilities

• Senior-level experience in public-sector health systems, programme delivery, government reform or health-sector management.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively senior experience in health-sector management, public-sector transformation, strategy, delivery management, consulting, or development programmes.
• Demonstrate experience working with senior government leadership.
• Demonstrate experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating multiple stakeholders
• Strong understanding of Nigerian health-sector institutions and state-level delivery systems.
• Ability to manage politically and institutionally sensitive cross-agency issues.
• Strong facilitation and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex issues to senior executives concisely.