Jobs at Malaria Consortium

Job purpose

The job purpose is to work with State Project Manager (SPM) to effectively manage project activities and resources., provide leadership and stewardship to the project team and maintain collaborative links with the project’s key stakeholders at the LGA level.

Scope of work

The Program Officer (PO) while reporting to the State Project Manager (SPM) and based at the state office, will line mange the LGA Field Assistants within his area of coverage.

Key working relationships

The PO would be line managed by the SPM and would line manage the LGA Field Assistants in-charge of the assigned LGAs (presumably within a specific senatorial zone of a state). S/he would also maintain relationships with the country office departments, including Finance and Logistics. Key external relationships would be with staff at the LGA and State Malaria Elimination Programme (SMEP), LGA health staff and leading community members and gatekeepers. S/he would lead micro-planning, training and coordination, through drug administration and supportive supervision, to reporting of activities at the LGA level. S/he would maintain close communication with stakeholders and influential persons in the assigned LGAs through the agreed frameworks.

Key accountabilities

Programme Management (70%)

Support the SPM and the state management team to lead activities for smooth programme management in the assigned LGAs in the following areas:

• Line management – build and performance manage an effective and technically fit SMC project team in the assigned LGAs.
• Be conversant with and guided by Malaria Consortium, policies, guidelines and the SMC Handbook towards the delivery of SMC in assigned LGAs.
• Planning (microplanning, selection of implementers at the local levels, training, database finalization, last mile distribution, SPAQ admin and reverse logistics);
• Engagement of stakeholders including government, communities and beneficiaries.
• Implementation (SPAQ admin) including QA and innovations, including the use of technology.
• General management including security, HR including line management, risk management, work planning and budgeting, VFM, optimization of grant, etc.;
• Risk Free operations including ensuring that all staff comply with MC values and start-to-finish (SFG) policies; and
• Coordination with other levels of government and internally, all MC functions.

Technical (20%)

• Support M&E activities, including reporting of SPAQ admin and lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS); and
• Support programme review including end of cycle (EoC) reviews, end of round (EoR) reviews and EoR coverage survey.

Representations & Knowledge Management (10%)

• Lesson identification and use including adaptive management;
• Harmonisation with other partners; and
• Representation especially at the LGA levels.

Qualifications and experience:

Essential          

• Training in Nursing or Public Health;
• Five years’ experience of working in the Public Health sector;
• Experience in programme management at the LGA/state level;
• Excellent project planning, management and monitoring & evaluation skills.
• Experience managing project budgets;
• Experience in using digital data collection tools in SMC campaigns and other health programmes; 
• Some practical experience in Health Information and Disease Surveillance Systems, interoperability, and international standards; open Global Health Information System software and open data sources, such as, but not limited to, DHIS2, ODK, KoboCollect;
• Experience working at the LGA and community levels;
• Experience working on campaign style interventions (delivery of interventions or social mobilization and SMC would be an added advantage).

Work-based skills and competencies:

• Good understanding of the Nigeria health system;
• Understanding of communication for behaviour change and social mobilisation;
• Team player and demonstrated ability to work within a team as well as individually;
• Ability to travel to LGAs outside of state capital at least 80% of the time;
• Ability to perform under pressure;
• Excellent communication skills in English and the dominant local language in assigned state.
• Evidence of being resident in state of assignment.

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Scope of role

The Senior Compliance Officer is responsible for review of listed State offices’ books and records with a view to ensure compliance with rules and procedures of MC and GF. The objective of the role is support the programmes compliance unit to provide quality assurance and support management to adopt realistic solutions which address the root causes of major identified risks

Key working relationships

• The Senior Compliance Officer will report to the Programmes Compliance Manager with a dotted line reporting to TBC. The Senior Compliance Officer working with the Programmes Compliance Manager will regularly interact with relevant officers to check compliance to MC and project policy and procedures as it applies to their thematic areas. This position is also expected to work closely with all unit’s team members in the selected states.
• The Senior Compliance Officer will be required to support the Programmes Compliance Manager to work with GF to understand donor rules & regulations and liaise with relevant partners and colleagues at Malaria Consortium to ensure the requirements are met. The function of the role will expand to cover other donors as the portfolio of projects in country office increases.

Key accountabilities

Programme Routine and Periodic Compliance (50%)

• Conduct compliance checks on programmes campaigns preparations (e.g. SMC & LLIN) and support in identifying areas requiring improvements
• Carry out compliance spot checks on campaigns implementation, closure activities and post campaign activities.
• Carry out spot checks on all campaign commodities (drugs and other materials) before, during and after distribution in the selected states
• Conduct compliance checks on campaign related procurements carried out at the state levels (per ASL) before contracts/POs are issued to vendors
• Support the programmes compliance unit to conduct routine and periodic compliance reviews of the programme highlighting areas requiring improvements.

Programme Compliance and third party entities (30%)

• Conduct regular compliance checks on other non-campaign related activities in the selected states (e.g. review PO’s and Contracts)
• Conduct specific review or tasks requested by MC Management, provided such reviews and tasks do not compromise the Senior Compliance Officer’s independence or objectivity
• Identify potential risk areas in the course of compliance review and provide recommendations on how to strengthen the system

Continuous improvement (10%)

• Support in promoting a country office -wide culture of compliance and risk management
• Work with the Programmes Compliance Manager to advise project management and general staff on critical intersections between project implementation and compliance issues, based on knowledge of organizational policy, donor regulations, and specific award terms and conditions.

Reporting (10%)

• Provide support to the programmes compliance manager to generate report on internal process issues and the implementation of quality assurance action plans to the West and Central Africa Programmes Director

Person specification

Qualifications and experience:

Essential:

• General and Public Administration, Auditing/Accountancy, Programme Management qualification or equivalent
• Minimum of five years’ experience, with at least three years’ work-experience in internal audit/compliance
• Significant experience of working with donors and Grants.
• Knowledge of Global Fund and DFID rules and regulation including the financial and technical reporting requirements
• Someone who is an ACA, ACCA or has certification in compliance and risk management is preferred.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the NGO sector
• Experience of working in an international context

Work-based skills:

Essential:

• Experience working in a compliance environment
• Excellent computer skills with high proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• A proven ability to work independently and prioritise and manage your workload to complete assessments and deliver timely reports
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a readiness to take initiative to resolve issues
• An ability to work with management to identify the root cause of issues
• Attention to detail to deliver accurate and credible results and objective assurance
• Good interpersonal skills with a persuasive, diplomatic and confident manner while also demonstrating the tenacity to effectively challenge management.
• An ability to build effective working relationships and provide advice at all levels

Desirable:

• Working knowledge of accounting software
• Familiar with the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF) of internal auditing
• Confident being a role model for others
• Willing to travel to the field at short notice

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Job purpose

The Data Analyst will support data analysis, sample size calculations, study design and the epidemiological interpretation of programme and project results.  The post-holder will also further develop and support the project’s secondary analyses and documentation of learning through analyses of data sets addressing key disease control questions. 

Scope of work

The role requires the ability keep track of multiple responsibilities, plan and work semi-independently and to use initiative. The Data Analyst will be responsible for supporting SARMAAN 2 data analysis to deliver scientifically robust technical outputs. The Data Analyst will consolidate information from key studies on analyses plans, activities, progress, and impact to identify key learnings and promote best practice within the programme. Alongside this support, the Data Analyst will provide input to the strategic direction and functions of the M & E Manager to ensure the data for NMEP and SMEP score cards are analysed and ready for review at specified period (monthly, quarterly and annual). 

Key working relationships

The Data Analysis Expert will report directly to the M & E Manager and will work within a team comprising of the Country and State Senior M & E officers,

Key accountabilities

Technical contributions (80%)

• Support sample size calculations, study design, statistical analysis of projects  data, and contribute to reports to disseminate among partners
• Explore research questions of interest for SARMAAN 2 using available data through conducting secondary and meta-analyses
• Participate in the development of tools and  procedures in surveys, rapid assessments, routine data collection and surveillance
• Supervise M&E activities during project implementation and outputs, quality control data and carry out quarterly project performance assessments and other reports as required
• Participate in building capacity in data management, statistics and data analysis for SARMAAN 2 staff and selected stakeholders, both internally and to the donor
• Participate with other members of the MEAL team in design and implementation of surveys
• Provide input in development of project data quality assessments (DQA) plans
• Support State teams in the conduct of DQAs and audits.
• Provide technical support to State teams in communicating the results to MoH and partners

Strategic contributions (10%)

• Contribute to the project’s strategies on knowledge management and data use
• Support log frame development during project set up/inception

Programme management (5%)

• Manage M&E activities as requested
• Participate in the review of programme/M&E narrative reports

Communication and advocacy (5%)

• Write peer-reviewed publications on key projects and data analysis exercises
• Contribute to documentation of lessons learnt from the project’s work including production of learning briefs, learning papers, general documentation and contribution to publications

Person specification

Essential

• Master’s degree in statistics or public health with focus on epidemiology/bio-statistics or demography
• Extensive experience working in data management and epidemiology in Nigeria within government, an international organization or research institution
• Extensive experience in research design and implementation
• Knowledge and experience of Monitoring and Evaluation tools and methods in the international development or global health sector
• Significant experience in the development of  data bases, data entry systems (PDA or phone-based) and statistical analysis software (EpiData, Excel, Access, Stata)

Desirable

• Significant knowledge in malaria
• Knowledge and experience of disease surveillance mechanisms
• Working knowledge of DHIS2

Work-based skills:

Essential

• Ability to plan, manage and prioritise workload semi-independently
• Good interpersonal skills and effective working style
• Sensitivity to confidentiality issues and diplomacy
• Excellent writing and presentation skills
• Management and mentoring skills with respect to junior staff
• Ability to work in a team
• Ability to work independently with little support