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Job ID: 13-10783
Location: Abuja
Grade: K
Project/Program: P000 - Proposal
Group/Office: PDG (Program Delivery Group)
Dept/Unit: PDGGEN - Program Delivery Group
Reports To: TBD

Overview

• Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is seeking a Fund Manager/Project Lead for a potential 5-year, Tobacco Control Policy Implementation Fund for Africa Program.
• This program/grant will be used to assist up to five countries that have signed on to the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control in sub-Saharan Africa to advance the implementation of their national tobacco control policies through results-based, catalytic grants and peer-to-peer learning.
• Allowances are not provided.
• This position is subject to project award and funding.  

Specific Responsibilities
The Fund Manager/Project Lead is responsible for the following:

• Lead, manage, and monitor the overall program across 3-5 countries, and is accountable for project deliverables and results.
• Conduct solicitation process for program grants to identify 3-5 grantee countries for catalytic funding.
• Work with technical partners and grantees to conduct capacity assessments, determine capacity development needs and facilitate/coordinate the provision of effective short-term technical assistance to respond to those needs.
• Champion the project’s vision and technical strategy; documentation and communication; client(s) stakeholder(s) relationships; coordination and synergy with other MSH projects and internal operations units, and contribute to business development activities.
• Safeguard MSH’s reputation by ensuring that financial, contractual, technical, and political integrity is maintained and strengthened.
• Negotiate grant awards with Ministries of Health/Tobacco Control Programs, including terms, objectives, milestones and deliverables, budgets, and reporting.
• Together with the MSH home office assigned Contract Officer, develop results-based grant agreements based on results-based funding principles, including milestones and deliverables, payment structure, and incentives.
• Lead development of annual learning labs with grantees and technical partners to ensure best practices and innovation dissemination and peer learning.
• Together with the MSH home office assigned M&E Advisor, develop (update and adapt as needed) and execute program results framework, performance monitoring plan, management and performance dashboard (with DREAM@MSH staff), and annual work plans as per contract/agreement requirements, MSH technical frameworks and standards, and RMS guidelines.
• Ensure appropriate and timely documentation and dissemination of key results and deliverables for maximum program impact and business development using a variety of communication strategies and media.
• Ensure effective contract/agreement implementation in strict compliance with contract/ agreement clauses, MSH and donor policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Ensure project staffing, structure and reporting relationships are aligned with project needs, local context and available resources and provide mentorship to the project team as per MSH policies and guidelines.
• Liaise with MSH local and home office staff to ensure technical and administrative quality and efficiency in the implementation of the project.
• Supervise assigned Project/Grant Assistant

Qualifications and Experience

• Master’s degree in Public Health, Administration, or a related discipline (MPH, MBA or other).
• Minimum of 10 years, 12 preferred of progressively responsible related experience required, and previous experience as grant manager, finance manager or program manager/director in public health projects; tobacco control program experience a plus.
• Prior experience and success directing similar or larger international donor-funded projects.
• Ability to manage the donor, government counterparts, and technical partners, oversee the budget and understand the implementation challenges and solutions.
• Previous experience in capacity building and development with partner organizations.
• Experience negotiating with governments.
• Experience with results or performance based funding.
• Experience in monitoring program results and deliverables, ability to co-design M&E plans and analyze M&E data.
• Ability to identify best practices and innovations and build learning events around such results.

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Job ID: 13-10821
Location: Abuja
Grade: Consultant
Project/Program: A576 - PMI - S
Group/Office: PDG (Program Delivery Group)
Dept/Unit: PDGGEN - Program Delivery Group

Overview
A Baseline Analysis (BA) was conducted by PMI-S to assess the current status of national policies, strategic documents, guidelines, training materials, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and job aids as they pertain to NMEP readiness to support state implementation of national guidelines for malaria case management and, surveillance, monitoring and evaluation (SME).  As a result, the BA finds that most documents align with WHO guidelines. However, some of these strategic documents are either outdated, or incomplete. In addition, the availability of SOP and job aids as stand-alone documents for use at service points is not proven. As part of the BA desk review, about 26 documents related to case management were reviewed and required different specific actions.

In view of the above, PMI-S has committed to collaborate with the National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP) to revise seven documents including the following:

• National Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Malaria, 2015;
• Training Manual for the Management of Malaria at Health Facilities in Nigeria, Trainer Guide.
• Training Manual for the Management of Malaria at Health Facilities in Nigeria, Participant Guide.
• Module 2, Case Management at the PHC, Trainee Content.
• Module 2, Case Management at the PHC, Trainer Content. In addition, PMI-S will extract SOPs, and Job aids from these national documents as stand-alone tools.

This will be done by convening two separate review workshops for stakeholders (donors, partners, regulatory agencies, providers) to revise, update and unbundle the above listed; harmonize inputs from the workshops and produce drafts of revised documents.

The consultant will report directly to PMI-S Senior Malaria Technical Advisor while working closely with the National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP).

Specific Responsibilities
First, facilitate a four-day workshop, focusing on the following tasks:

• Finalize the proposed agenda and list of participants
• Propose an addendum to be included in the current national diagnostic and treatment guideline, based on BA findings;
• Facilitate the four-day workshop to address the BA findings and recommendations regarding the national diagnostic and treatment guidelines, the two sets of training modules, identify which SOP, and job aids need to be extracted from the main documents, and define if additional SOP, and job aids need to be developed
• If additional SOP and job aids are necessary, establish a list of agreed additional SOP and Job aids to be developed.
• Compile feedback/inputs, incorporate them into drafts documents, and circulate revised draft documents to participants for review, and feedback by an agreed time
• Write and submit workshop report.

Second, facilitate a two-day workshop with the following tasks:

• Finalize the proposed agenda and a list of participants
• Facilitate the workshop to finalize, and validate revised documents
• Establish a timeframe for way forward (signing, field testing, and dissemination)
• Write and submit workshop report.

Workshop 1
Deliverables - Due Date:

• Finalized agenda, and proposed participant list, and draft addendum - Three days after signing contract
• Draft of the revised national diagnostic and treatment guidelines, two revised training modules sets, extracted SOP and Job aids, and list of additional SOP and Job aids to be developed - Ten days after completion of workshop
• List of additional SOP and Job aids to be developed and proposed way forward - Ten days after completion of workshop
• Report of review workshop facilitation and results. - Twelve days after completion of workshop

Workshop No 2

• Final proposed agenda, and proposed participant list. - Four days before the commencement of workshop 2
• Report of workshop 2 with Draft of semi- finalized documents - Ten days after completion of workshop 2
• Final, and validated copies of revised national diagnostic and treatment guidelines, training modules sets, extracted SOP and Job aids - Ten days after last touch base with PMI-S and NMEP

Qualifications and Experience

• A Medical degree or MPH in related field
• Good knowledge of malaria case management SOP and job aids.
• Familiarity with national malaria diagnostic and treatment guidelines, as well as malaria case management training material will be a plus.
• Experience in providing in-service trainings on malaria case management at state level.
• Experience in developing training materials on health topics, and on malaria preferably.
• Experience and expertise in facilitating policy document development and review
• Previously engaged or experience working with the NMEP on related assignments
• High level communication and facilitation skills to facilitate workshops of this nature
• Ability to synthetize information, and write reports
• Demonstrated ability to manage team, foster collaboration and facilitate coordination
• Fluency in English language (both writing and oral)
• Computer literacy