Jobs at RTI International

Responsibilities

• Develops the grants management program with the input and oversight of the Chief of Party, Deputy Chief of Party, Operations, and the RTI Office of Contracts.
• Oversees grants management process and subcontracts for local organizations, including grant proposal tracking, review, and approval process.
• Maintains financial management files for grants and ensures audit trail for all necessary grant documentation.
• Ensures timely financial disbursements, compliance with grants financial management policies, monitors all grant expenses, and provides regular updates on grant status.
• Provides technical assistance as required to build capacity of local partners and grantees.
• Reviews technical and financial proposals from local NGOs/CBOs, including negotiating annual budgets, and reviews grantee financial expenditure reports for accuracy and adherence to the SOW and budget.

Qualifications

• Master's degree and 10 years of experience, or bachelor’s degree and 12 years of experience.
• At least six years of experience in grants design and administration, management, and distribution of grants; experience administering USAID grants preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of development issues in the program regions, ability to travel and work in the field with administrative and sector technicians, as well as civil society organizations.
• Demonstrated competency in the use of computers, computer programs
• Prior experience with USAID-funded programs strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to work under pressure, and with multiple concurrent demands.
• Ability to travel and work in any of the anticipated priority states.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and writing skills.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Verbal and written English proficiency is required.

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Responsibilities

• In close collaboration with the COP, provides technical direction and leadership of the project.
• Develops and adapts technical strategies, approaches, and activities to achieve objectives, and applies and contextualizes global best practices and learning to the Nigerian setting.
• Oversees and coordinates activities of state teams. Directly supervises technical leads.
• Takes a leadership role in work planning and implementation of program activities by working in close collaboration with the COP and ensure that the project activities are meeting client and stakeholder expectations. Serves as a member of leadership team, setting a positive and professional tone for the team, collaborating closely with the other team leaders.
• Leads the development and delivery of the activity’s technical components, providing programmatic leadership and overseeing technical assistance, working in close collaboration with leadership at the national and state-level.
• Serves at the Task Order lead for any FCT health activities.
• Provide technical guidance on integrated health policy, strategy, and programming within the activity to staff and sub-contractors and externally.
• Review data and reporting to analyze progress toward targets and determine corrective action needed to improve goal achievement.
• Develop and implement the activity’s local capacity strengthening initiatives, building on the existing rich technical expertise readily available in Nigeria.
• Working with teams, FMOH, and local partners, identify local innovations for scale-up within and across states.
• Support development and monitoring of technical work plans and budget, working with project staff, consortium members, and government stakeholders.
• Ensures the production of high-quality technical deliverables and reporting.
• Document lessons learned and technical innovations of the activity.
• Develops and maintains effective partnerships with relevant health donors, implementers, and consortium members, to foster collaboration. Serves as the activity’s main point of contact for technical collaboration fora.
• Represent the project in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations.

Qualifications

• Master's degree and 12 years of experience, or other advanced degree (PhD, MD) in a relevant field, such as medicine, public health, health system management, social administration, or social sciences and 8 years of experience. Clinical qualification a plus.
• At least 10 years of experience in managing and/or implementing integrated health service delivery or technical assistance programming addressing MNCH, FP/RH, nutrition, and/or HSS in a similar context, with at least three of those years working in Nigeria as a senior advisor or staff member.
• Expertise in one or more of the following evidence-based facility- or community-based interventions/strategies: MNCH, FP/RH, nutrition, and/or HSS.
• Experience in strengthening quality of care a plus.
• Experience designing, implementing, or overseeing gender- or youth-sensitive health programming.
• Experience supervising technical staff in the implementation of integrated health programming across different offices and operating contexts.
• Proven ability to work independently and multi-task in high-pressure settings.
• Ability to travel and work in any of the anticipated priority states.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and writing skills.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Verbal and written English proficiency is required.
• Experience working on USG-funding health programming in Nigeria is required.

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Responsibilities

• Serves as a member of the leadership team, setting a positive and professional tone for the team, collaborating closely with the other team leaders.
• Develop, monitor, and ensure successful implementation of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan (AMELP) by overseeing project results, data management, reporting on indicators, capturing evidence and learning, and supporting evidenced-based decision-making.
• Work closely with technical team members to gather and share necessary data for M&E reporting needs and CLA activities.
• Oversee MEL technical assistance to subcontractors, FMOH, and local partners.
• Prepare quarterly report summarizing performance against the indicator list and performance standards of the Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan.
• Review data and reporting to analyze progress toward targets and determine corrective action needed to improve goal achievement.
• Outline specific learning questions and activities and work closely with the staff to generate, validate, and present data in user-friendly format.
• Facilitate constructive and collaborative dialogue during regular MEL project reviews and biweekly team meetings.
• Support the Senior Management team to lead quarterly “pause and reflect” performance review processes with Workstream Leads.
• Represent the project in professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations and assist with dissemination of project results and learning.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field, such as public health, epidemiology, mathematics, economics, statistics, or social sciences.
• At least 10 years of experience in managing and/or leading MEL activities for large-scale health service delivery or health system strengthening (HSS) programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, with at least three of those years working in Nigeria as a senior advisor or staff member.
• Knowledge of and experience with key MNCAH, FP/RH, nutrition, water and sanitation hygiene (WASH), and/or HIV/AIDS indicators and GON and USG data collection systems (e.g. DHIS2).
• Strong analytical skills to successfully use data and evidence to guide program adaptations.
• Demonstrated experience in setting up and managing MEL systems that track performance as per the objectives of IHP.
• Familiarity with CLA approaches. Excellent ability to articulate oral and written technical information clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. Data visualization skills a plus.
• Experience supervising MEL staff at different levels across different offices.
• Proven ability to work independently and multi-task in high-pressure settings.
• Ability to travel and work in any of the anticipated priority states.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and writing skills.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Verbal and written English proficiency is required.
• Experience working on USG-funded health programming in Nigeria.