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Location: Birnin, Kebbi

Project Overview and Role

• The Integrated Health Project (IHP) aims to strengthen local capacity and systems to contribute to reductions in child and maternal morbidity and mortality in target states, and to increase the capacity of health systems (public and private) to sustainably support quality primary healthcare.
• The Knowledge Management Specialist leads implementation of the project’s communication and knowledge management strategy in the State.

Responsibilities

• Leads implementation of the project’s communication and knowledge management strategy in the State
• Captures and documents lessons learned, success stories and champions the scaling-up of best practices
• Works with the state monitoring and evaluation team to support preparation of high-quality project reports and documentation
• Contributes to content management of the external website and intranet if required
• Facilitates knowledge management and communication-related capacity development events and sharing of best practices
• Ensures compliance with the IHP branding and marking strategy
• Develops communications campaigns to highlight thematic topic areas as necessary, and helps develop and implement engagement strategies
• Facilitates linkages and partnerships with media organizations to promote ongoing conversation about health issues relevant to IHP work
• Organizes and backstops webinars and other learning events, as needed
• Facilitates media and social media administrative processes if required
• Reports to Knowledge Management and Communications Specialist at the Abuja Central Office and supervised by the state Senior MEL Manager

Requirements   

• The Knowledge Management Specialist must be experienced in public health/public health communication, international development, or related field.
• S/he will have demonstrated experience working with complex health or development projects that required collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
• S/he must be familiar with the public context in Nigeria and have in-country experience with USAID / International donor programs. 

Additional qualifications include:

• A Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, knowledge management, public policy communications or related field. A Master’s degree will be a plus
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in communications, health communications/reporting, knowledge management, social media or related field, and working in public health with USAID/International Donor Programs
• Demonstrated strength and experience writing project reports (progress updates, monthly, quarterly, annual), technical reports, and policy briefs
• Proven ability to lead the planning, coordination and execution of communications products
• Proven ability to work collaboratively and build consensus across diverse sets of stakeholders
• Experience in client relationship management, reporting, program work planning is preferred
• Prior experience working with US Government-funded programs is required
• Fluent in English (written and oral communication) and Hausa
• Strong verbal, listening, writing and oral communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to establish and maintain strong working relationships with IHP internal and external stakeholders
• Experience at organizing and facilitating systems strengthening, capacity development and mentoring processes
• Competency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and graphics design software.

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Project Overview and Role

• Palladium seeks a Governance and Leadership Advisor for the five-year, USAID-funded Nigeria Integrated Health Program, an integrated health program with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) to identify and support rapid scale-up of proven interventions through improvement of service delivery and strengthening of health systems.
• It will focus its support for service delivery in six intervention areas: family planning, malaria, routine immunization, nutrition, maternal/newborn health, and treatment of childhood pneumonia/diarrhea. It has a strong emphasis on monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• This program will work closely with state-level government officials to support established state-level Health and Development Plans, build capacity, and promote ownership of interventions, systems, and results.
• Specific interventions will need to be tailored to local contexts and will be fully developed at state and Local Government Area (LGA) levels. Through agreements with individual states, its potential breadth is the entire country with an emphasis on the north.

Responsibilities

• Promote multisectoral partnership and leadership to strengthen governance and accountability at the state level to use resources transparently, enable citizen engagement in planning and monitoring, and produce results in primary health care;
• Work with key stakeholders to identify and select priority areas for policy development related to reproductive health/family planning, maternal and newborn health, child health, nutrition and malaria services; and develops plans, concept papers, and proposals for policy initiatives that are evidence-based and gender-sensitive;
• Provide technical leadership in reviewing and formulating state policy initiatives, which includes researching and drafting policy documents, regulations, ordinances, decrees, guidelines, and circulars;
• Assist stakeholders to prepare for and implement new health policies through capacity building and organizational development.
• Liaise and works with other IHP program leads to strengthen health governance components;
• Build governance and leadership capacity of state, LGA, ward and community levels to be engaged in and accountable for improved quality and increased access to primary health care services;
• Work with the state to adapt and utilize planning, budgeting and accountability tools to harmonize health activities among all partners in the state and foster transparency in planning, budgeting and reporting of results and health finances

Requirements

• Educated to university Degree level or above, preferably holding a Master's Degree 
• At least 12 years' experience providing others, especially government leaders and stakeholders, with guidance and technical assistance that enables them to understand policy options and strategies for improving health governance.
• Deep understanding of the BHCPF, PHCUOR and related processes and structures related to strengthening primary health care systems.
• Experience supervising a team of experts focused on strengthening health systems
• Experience carrying out project-related health governance technical assistance and promoting the integration of governance and health systems.
• Ability to develop strong, working relationships with multisectoral counterparts strongly desired.
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills. Experience working with diverse and multicultural teams.
• Experience working on USAID funded projects is highly desired.
• Knowledge of local culture and a deep understanding of the social, political and ethical issues surrounding the delivery of RMNCH +NM services
• Ability to speak, write and read English is required.
• Advanced ability to communicate in Hausa Language is required
• Ability to travel within Kebbi state at least 75% time