Job Overview / Summary
HeRON Project Overview:
- FCDO/USAID Health Resilience of Northeast Nigeria (HeRON) Service delivery project in Borno and Yobe states supports delivery of quality integrated primary healthcare, reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services, to improve evidence-based decision making, accountability at all levels of service delivery.
- IRC leads a consortium of humanitarian and development implementing partners (Action Contre la Faim – ACF, Society for Family Health Nigeria).
- The Project team is working alongside states and local government authorities, strengthening their capacity to effectively deliver quality integrated primary healthcare, reproductive, maternal, and newborn and child health and nutrition services.
Scope of Work
- IRC is seeking a dynamic and experienced public health and governance professional to provide technical support to State’s MoH and LGAs to strengthen the health system.
- Reporting to the HeRON Consortium Team Leader, the HSS Technical Advisor will be responsible for directly working with State MoH officials, to ensure that the program is aligned with government health strategies, plans and priorities/ AOPs; supporting the roll-out of government health policies, with particular focus on program quality and sustainability across health system strengthening components.
- Working alongside MoH officials at State and LGA levels, the HSS Technical Advisor will provide appropriate capacity strengthening to ensure that health systems are rebuilt and equipped to deliver quality and sustainable health services at health facility and community level, with an improved management and performance of the health system.
- In consultation with the Consortium Deputy Team Leader, the HSS Technical Advisor will regularly coordinate with state’s MoH and LGA officials, development actors and stakeholders.
Major Responsibilities
Program Management, Technical Quality, Strategy and Advocacy:
- Under the leadership of the HeRON Consortium Team Leader, provide technical support for the overall strategy implementation to strengthen the capacity of the State Ministry of Health (SMoH) and the state primary health care development agency (SPHCDA).
- Advocate and collaborate with MoH, SPHCDA, LGAs to incorporate best practices and international standards in service delivery
- Oversee and facilitate periodic self-assessment processes at the SMOH, SPHCDA and LGAs, as well as the development of organizational development and/or capacity building plans aiming at mainstreaming health governance principles and processes, aiming at increasing participation, responsiveness, and accountability of reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health services.
- Support the SPHCDA Executive Director and LGAs in executing the activities laid out in the organizational development (OD) and capacity building plans
- Coordinate with the HeRON consortium deputy team leader and management team to identify, through cyclical assessments, technical support needs/ priorities, and regularly monitor the performance of OD plans, as well as through scheduled quarterly review meetings.
- Support the SMOH, SPHCDA and LGAs’ analytical and decision-making processes in further defining and planning the roll-out of integrated service packages for community health services, the improvement/ roll-out of Health Management Information System (HMIS) and Logistics Management Information System (LMIS)
- Coordinate between the SMOH, SPHCDA, LGAs and the HeRON consortium leadership and its implementing partners to provide technical support for the implementation of transition and sustainability plans, in ensuring the attainment of the identified sustainability parameters.
- Provide expert contribution to the development or adaptation of national health policies, guidelines, and standards, promoting quality service provision in Northeast Nigeria that is accessible, responsive, and accountable to citizens, and allows their voices to be heard.
Research, Learning and Analysis:
- Review existing SMOH/ partner supervisory tools and provide technical support in development of TORs, guidelines, trainings, manuals, and tools for new community health system strengthening initiatives
- Generate lessons learned and best practices that will inform future investment in health programming.
Coordination & Representation:
- Participate and provide technical support at SMOH planning, budgeting, and review meetings
- Participate at program coordination meetings with consortium and implementing partners
- Participate at various stakeholders and partners coordination meetings at State level
Key Working Relationships
- Position Reports to: Team Leader – HeRON Consortium
- Indirect/Technical Reporting: Deputy Team Leader
- Position directly Supervises: N/A
Key Internal Contacts:
- Country Program: Health Governance Manager, HeRON Senior Program Managers, M&E Manager, Pharmacy Manager
- Region/Global: Senior Technical Advisor, Governance (HQ), Health Technical Advisor (HQ)
Key External Contacts:
- State MoH Officials, State PHCDA Director, MoH – HeRON Focal Persons, HeRON Implementing partners
Qualifications
Education:
- Master's Degree in Public Health (MPH) or equivalent, or Bachelor's Degree in relevant field with Public Health experience equivalent to MPH.
Work Experience:
- Previous experience working closely with Ministry of Health officials and in policy development/Health Systems Strengthening
- Previous experience working in a technical advisory capacity, and as part of a consortium of implementing partners, INGOs.
- Familiarity/ knowledge of applicable contexts (Yobe/ Borno)
Demonstrated Technical Skills:
- Demonstrable technical expertise and working knowledge in advocacy, HSS and health governance
- Excellent monitoring and evaluation skills
- Excellent coordination and networking skills
Demonstrated Managerial/Leadership Competencies:
- Knowledge, skills, and experience in consensus building and partnerships.
- Demonstrated leadership, communication, and facilitation skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to handle a large and dynamic workload, work under pressure and meet deadlines
Languages:
- Fluency in English (spoken and written)
Computer/Other Tech Requirements:
- Full professional competency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to Travel: 10-20% of time
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Job Overview/Summary
HeRON Project Overview:
- FCDO/USAID Health Resilience of Northeast Nigeria (HeRON) Service delivery project in Borno and Yobe states supports delivery of quality integrated primary healthcare, reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services, to improve evidence-based decision making, accountability at all levels of service delivery.
- IRC leads a consortium of humanitarian and development implementing partners (Action Contre la Faim – ACF, Society for Family Health Nigeria).
- The Project team is working work alongside states and local government authorities, strengthening their capacity to effectively deliver quality integrated primary healthcare, reproductive, maternal, and newborn and child health and nutrition services.
Scope of Work
- The HERON M&E Officer will report to the HERON Consortium Senior M&E Manager. S/he will be responsible for the implementation of M&E systems and processes for the IRC led HERON Consortium, ensuring consistent use of M&E approaches, data management, data quality and facilitates learning.
- The role requires extensive M&E experience and good understanding of organizational M&E approaches, as well as understanding of working in a consortium led project.
- The post holder will be expected to provide technical support in data gathering, aggregation, contribute to M&E tools development, support electronic data platforms, databases and select technologies to capture and organize data in a usable format. S/he will work collaboratively with consortium MEAL teams in partner organizations and support health M&E officers within the IRC.
Major Responsibilities
Consortium MEAL (70%):
- Support with ensuring all consortium led M&E activities are up to date and tracked, and Carry out routine quality checks with all partner organizations.
- Support HeRoN Snr. M&E Manager in conducting planned surveys
- Ensure Project Cycle Management tool is updated Monthly, making sure that the key project indicators sheet, Action tracker sheet, and learning tracker tool, are up to date
- Harmonize all partner databases and Indicator Tracking Sheets monthly
- Support with data validation of databases and ITS shared by Implementing partners
- Provide summary sheets for quarterly reports and annual reports
- Assist the Snr. M&E Manager to develop and track procurement plans for HeRoN M&E consortium activities.
- In consultation with the Senior M&E HeRoN Manager, organize lesson sharing events to fertilize learning across different partners.
- Support with developing tools that aid documenting, storing and sharing lessons learned that have implications for refinement of best programmatic practice;
- Ensure established client feed-back Mechanism across all Partners organizations are in place and provide feedback on CfM through on-the spot checks
- Develop/implement innovative ideas as regard to client feedback mechanism and ensure effective use of existing feedback mechanisms (FGD, hotline facilitation, suggestion boxes, exit interviews, IEC materials, radio jingles)
- Carry out data quality audits
- Carry out field monitoring activities
- Support with organizing lesson sharing events
- Support the HeRoN Snr. M&E Manager in the implementation of HeRoN project M&E systems, and measurement tools in line with the IRC Montoring for Action framework/MEAL Handbook.
- Responsible for maintenance of HeRoN folders on box
- Responsible for HeRoN M&E administrative tasks
Consortium MEAL Health Systems Strengthening (30%):
- Support the Snr. HeRoN M&E Manager with M&E stakeholder engagement activities
- Follow-up on and track action plans from stakeholder meetings
- Support with setting up meetings and stakeholder follow-up on commitments
- Ensure adequate data tools are available at HeRoN supported health facilities
- Support dissemination meetings
- Produce and archive meeting minutes and reports
Key Internal Contacts:
- Close Interactions with HeRoN Coordination team: HeRoN Team Lead, HeRoN Deputy Team Lead, Governance Manager, HeRoN Coordination Manager.
Key External Contacts:
- M&E focal persons of HeRON Implementation partners.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Economics, International Development, Public Health, or a related field. Post graduate degree in any relevant course will be an added advantage.
Work Experience:
- 2-3 years of relevant experience in MEL, research, and or analytics. Experience in Health Systems Strengthening M&E will be an added advantage
- Previous work experience with INGO, especially in M&E roles, project planning and reports writing
- Familiarity/ knowledge of operational contexts (Borno and Yobe states)
Demonstrated Technical Skills:
- Demonstrated knowledge tracking and analyzing project indicators and capturing best practices and lessons learned to incorporate into project activities.
- Languages: English, and Hausa
Computer/Other Tech Requirements:
- Full professional competency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Kobo collect, Dhis2.
- Ability to Travel: 30% of time
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