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The Finance and Administration Officer will support the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Effective Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services (E-WASH) Project and be responsible for supporting financial, administration, logistics and procurement of project. S/he will support the achievement of project goals in a manner constant with financial principles and maintain functions.  S/he will collaborate closely with the Human Resources, Procurement, Logistics, and Finance Manager to provide support and assistance as needed. S/he will coordinate office space for visiting RTI Staff/consultants. S/he is responsible for overseeing daily office cleaning and maintaining office supply stocks. Illustrative tasks are included in scope of work below, but individual may be assigned additional tasks as required.


 Essential Duties:

Office Administration

• Maintain event calendar either manually or electronically
• Respond to queries promptly and in a friendly manner
• Collaborate with Managers to ensure systems are in place to support administrative functions of the project Office

Operations Support

• Provide support for implementation of all Administrative Systems.
• Daily Register: Maintain Daily Sign-In and Sign-Out Register for all project Staff
• Transportation System: Collect and file driver logs, driver comment forms, and vehicle maintenance forms; Provide and file the Daily log sheets to the drivers on a monthly basis
• Accommodation System: receive invoices and revise with the travel requests.
• Documentation and Filing System: Maintain hard and soft Filing System to manage in-coming and out-going Faxes and E-mails to maintain accurate and updated subject files for correspondence; maintain a data base of project Contacts and revise as needed.
• Receive and record incoming deliveries of equipment, handing out free documentation
• Manage all assets (stores and equipment) at state-level office
• Events preparation and management to include venue arrangement for activity
• Manage transportation needs as required

Financial Tasks

• Prepares Monthly Cash Projections in collaboration with Finance manager
• Supports the implementation of Finance Controls as needed
• Manage and maintain petty cash
• Supports revision of financial documents as needed
• Assist outside auditors at year end including explaining support materials and procedures

Qualifications and Experience:

Master’s degree or Bachelor’s degree and 1 year of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience

Skills & Abilities

• Strong analytical, planning, and forecasting skills
• Proven record in negotiating diplomatically
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and demanding timeframes
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Excellent spoken and written English and local language
• Ability to travel as needed

Interested and qualified candidates should submit by e-mail only an Application letter and a CV as ONE SINGLE WORD document to Recruitment@ewash.rti.org VERY IMPORTANT – On the subject LINE of your email you should only put the Email Subject line and preferred State as indicated in each position above (no other text should be on this subject line)  that you are applying. Applications closes on Tuesday August 27, 2019. Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as they see this advert. Only shortlisted candidates will receive an invitation for an interview.

    Women are strongly encouraged to apply. We offer a highly competitive renumeration. Take note that any successful candidate will be subjected to a pre-employment background investigation. For further information about RTI International, please visit our website at www.rti.org

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Position Summary

The HSS Advisor will be based in the RTI Office in Abuja, Nigeria and will report to the Chief of Party for the Act to End NTDs | East project in Nigeria, with functional reporting to the HSS Lead in Washington, DC. In circumstances where there exist other HSS-related positions (e.g., Domestic Resource Utilization and Management [DRUM] Specialist or Cross-sectoral Specialist) the HSS Advisor will serve as the team leader for the HSS group of staff. The position requires in-country and international travel.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead in-country efforts to mainstream NTD activities into national and district-level health systems.
• Leverage professional understanding, experience, and relationships to partner with national and district-level MOH stakeholders and other public and private sector stakeholders.
• In collaboration with other Act | East team members, work with ministries to:
  • include NTD activities in country annual budgets with adequate funding; to clearly designate responsibilities for NTD control and morbidity management within the existing workforce and job descriptions;
  • include and monitor indicators among national health indicators;
  • monitor and support effective supply chain management for NTD supplies and activities, and
  • empower the NTD workforce by ensuring national policies are in place to fulfill essential NTD activities.
• Serve as in-country contact point for quality of STTA and provide any needed contextual tailoring of proposed activities.
• Support implementation of mainstreaming activities, including participatory planning activities, health systems and sustainability assessments, fiscal gap and space analysis, accountability and stakeholder mapping, and relevant activities under fixed amount awards (FAAs).
• In close collaboration with the Act | East HQ and country teams and host country counterparts, apply results of political economy assessment (PEA), or any assessment conducted by the program, to development of a mainstreaming or transition strategy for country programming.
• In collaboration with the HQ and/or in-country Cross-sectoral Specialist, leverage non-NTD sectoral platforms to support sustained MDA coverage and disease surveillance and coordinate support for advocacy activities with civil society.

 Minimum Required Education & Experience

• At least a Master's degree in public health, international development, public policy, or related field. Master’s degree and 6 years of experience or Bachelor’s Degree and 10 years of experience
• Minimum of 6 years global and/or in‐country experience in implementation of health systems strengthening programs and/or policy reform preferably addressing cross-sector issues.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing robust HSS programs in a developing country context, with technical expertise in one or more of the following areas: policy reform, service coverage, supply chain management, information systems, workforce alignment and/or related areas of health system strengthening.
• Demonstrated experience implementing HSS programs that incorporate non‐health sector and/or multi‐health sector programs.
• Neglected Tropical Disease experience desired, but not required.
• Host country nationals are preferred.

Skills & Abilities

Skills and abilities required to perform the essential job duties of this job are listed below. An addendum that clarifies additional skills and abilities for incumbents in this job may be used in addition to this description

• Demonstrated capacity to operate within the HSS community and function as a technical advisor on diverse matters related to HSS in developing countries.
• Demonstrated management, leadership, decision making, and interpersonal skills.
• Full professional proficiency in English with excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Demonstrated ability to create and maintain effective working relations with senior Government personnel, international organizations, NGO partners, host country governments, and U.S. Government Agencies.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally and domestically, as required, up to 30% of time.

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and curriculum vitae to nigeriaemployment@rti.org  indicating the Job Title as the subject line of the email by 5.00 p.m. on 20th September, 2019. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

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