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Overview:

Under the general supervision of the West and Central Africa (WCA) Regional Director, the Country Director is Jhpiego’s representative in Nigeria. This position also serves as Chief of Party for the Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) in Nigeria.

The Country Director is the primary contact for all information and requests for technical or programmatic assistance for new or ongoing Jhpiego and MCSP activities in Nigeria. The Country Director is responsible for ensuring programmatic and operational integrity of Jhpiego’s and MCSP’s activities in Nigeria. As COP the candidate will provide vision, leadership and direction to ensure the strategic, programmatic, technical, and financial integrity for the programs under MCSP in Nigeria. This includes planning, implementation and monitoring of program activities, presenting Jhpiego and MCSP’s Nigeria’s activities, overseeing financial management and compliance, fostering a productive team environment, and ensuring safety. The Country Director also leads strategic planning and new business development activities.

The Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) is a global, USAID Cooperative Agreement operating in 24 high priority countries to introduce and support high-impact health interventions with the ultimate goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths within a generation. The Program is focused on ensuring that all women, newborns and children most in need have equitable access to quality health care services to save lives. USAID’s MCSP supports programming in maternal, newborn and child health, immunization, family planning and reproductive health, nutrition, health systems strengthening, water/sanitation/hygiene, malaria, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and pediatric HIV care and treatment.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide strategic leadership and set technical and programmatic priorities for in-country programs ensuring that they are  technically sound, evidence- based and responsive to the needs of Nigeria, its people and donors
  • Cultivate strategic relationships and alliances with ministries, donors, implementing partners and other key stakeholders to advance Nigeria’s strategy
  • Support Global Programs Vice President and WCA Regional Director in developing and implementing processes for providing Jhpiego staff worldwide with updates, technical direction, approaches and successes of the Nigeria country programs
  • Ensure successful management, technical, programmatic and financial implementation of Nigeria’s programs and awards
  • Provide direct technical support to ongoing programs as needed
  • Ensure that Jhpiego’s project management approaches and tools are utilized in management of projects
  • Lead development of country and award work plans including budgets and modifications as required
  • Work with the WCA Regional Director, HQ program and technical backstops and program partners to ensure successful programmatic, technical and financial implementation of the country’s programs and awards
  • Keep the WCA Regional Director informed of successes, challenges, and lessons learned in managing the country programs
  • Ensure preparation and timely submission of all programmatic and financial reports to Jhpiego and donors
  • Support Program and Technical Review (PTR) processes and subsequent action planning to ensure the highest quality programming
  • Lead process to proactively identify and document risks that can negatively affect program deliverables, and develop strategies to mitigate risk
  • Review projects’ annual work plans to ensure that they advance the program’s overall strategy, meet key deliverables to achieve project objectives and adequately define work that is achievable within the given timeframe and budget
  • Ensure that all projects have strong monitoring and evaluation plans and comply with Jhpiego best practices
  • Ensure that all research and learning activities are compliant with review and approval processes of JHU’s institutional review board and Nigeria’s human research ethical review committee
  • Seek opportunities to present work and learning from projects
  • Ensure that programs are working within resources available and that they are fiscally sound
  • Manage and supervise the work of Jhpiego staff and contractors in country, including those providing technical, programmatic, financial and administrative services, to maximize efficiency and effectiveness
  • Promote and support the staffs’ understanding of and compliance with Jhpiego, JHU and donors’ operational policies and regulations and Nigerian laws and complete the annual compliance certification
  • Support Internal Control Reviews and external audits and take action to address any findings
  • Provide oversight and support to Human Resource Management
  • Motivate, mentor and develop capacity among local staff, in particular senior staff
  • Hire administrative and technical staff with appropriate competencies and manage them to meet timely delivery of country program outputs
  • Ensure appropriate orientation for new staff
  • Assure role clarity and proactively resolve confusion or conflicts
  • Ensure that annual staff evaluations are completed on schedule and support professional development for staff supervised
  • Maintain and implement Jhpiego safety and security procedures and coordinate with Jhpiego’s global security advisors, including the development and updating of local security procedures
  • Establish local information sources to keep abreast of security information
  • Maintain current emergency contact procedures (travel notifications, SMS lists, telephone trees, etc.) for all staff, as well as hibernation and evacuation plans
  • Lead the management of any incidents accordingly in coordination with HQ staff and Jhpiego’s global security advisors
  • Expand Jhpiego’s in-country opportunities through relationships developed with in-country partners, donors and the business community, as well as through strengthening local program implementation capacity
  • Provide analyses of in-country business development opportunities to the relevant staff in the regional and new program development offices at headquarters
  • Assist with the creation, leadership, and management of in country proposal development teams, and provide technical, programmatic and financial inputs for proposals
  • Participate in final review of all technical and programmatic portions of proposals of applications developed for implementation in Nigeria
  • Represent Jhpiego in professional circles through meetings, conferences and presentations in Nigeria, the region, and internationally
  • Develop and maintain excellent relationships with colleagues and donors including US government (USAID, CDC), foundations, and corporations within the country and region
  • Conduct stakeholder analysis for all Jhpiego projects and employ strategies to manage stakeholders well
  • Ensure staff are included in sharing of information and knowledge and that flow of information comes from the field as well as from Baltimore
  • Ensure that the country office has adequate IT and technology support systems and processes in place and is compliant with the Jhpiego IT Policy

Required Qualifications:

  • 10+ years’ experience successfully leading the implementation and management of large public health programs, preferably within Nigeria or other anglophone Africa countries
  • Advanced degree in public health, health administration, international health or a related field
  • Strong business development experience, including proposal writing and negotiating with host country government and partner organizations
  • Strong project management skills with experience using program management tools (Gantt charts, stakeholder matrix, work breakdown structure, issues logs, project charters, etc.)
  • Extensive working knowledge of the international health program development field, in particular reproductive, maternal neonatal and child health and HIV/AIDS
  • Working knowledge and understanding of rules and regulations of international and U.S. donor agencies, in particular USAID
  • Capacity for analyzing technical problems and issues which impede efforts to provide improved health care to populations; developing technical solutions to these problems/issues and assisting in the design of operational research which could yield appropriate solutions to these problems/issues.
  • Thorough understanding of and ability to analyze financial documents, projections, expenditures and accruals
  • Proven leadership and management skills, as demonstrated by successful previous residential leadership in one or more developing countries
  • Experience in leading and working with multi-cultural staff, including awareness of and sensitivity to working with multi-cultural groups in multiple socio-economic settings
  • Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and coordination
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills in English and French, demonstrating an ability to communicate with various audiences including stakeholders, partners, and donors
  • Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
  • Ability to develop productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations worldwide
  • Ability to provide technical leadership to develop innovative country program
  • Ability to communicate effectively, instilling trust and confidence

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package including: medical and dental plans; paid vacation, holidays and sick leave; personal accident insurance; 403(b) retirement plan; life and disability insurance; travel insurance; education assistance plan and more.

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

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Jhpiego

Our History

Responding to the Changing Needs of Women and Families Worldwide

Since its founding in 1974, Jhpiego has been innovating to save the lives of women and families worldwide. From the first day, Jhpiego has been asking the question: How can we make lifesaving services available and accessible to the people who need them—all over the world?

Dr. Theodore M. King, an early innovator and champion for women’s health, was the moving force behind the founding of Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1970s, King recognized the need to make physicians, nurses and administrators from developing countries aware of reproductive health breakthroughs, such as laparoscopy (a procedure used to inspect internal reproductive organs for infertility or to provide contraception by closing off the fallopian tubes) and modern contraceptives. Originally known as the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics, the organization was funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Under King’s leadership, as a founder, trustee and later president of Jhpiego for 14 years, the organization conducted a steady stream of programs throughout the developing world.

How Did We Get from There to Here?

Early on, Jhpiego established itself as a leader in reproductive health training. Beginning in 1974, Jhpiego held training sessions on family planning/reproductive health for doctors and nurses in the USA In 1979, Jhpiego started its first in-country training programs in Tunisia, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, Thailand and the Philippines. From 1987 through 2004, Jhpiego conducted three global Training in Reproductive Health Projects, funded by USAID. Beginning in 1993, Jhpiego published learning materials on long-acting family planning methods.

Over the years—to respond more effectively to the needs of individual countries—Jhpiego became increasingly field-based and established its first field office in Kenya in 1993. Today, Jhpiego has field offices in more than 30 countries worldwide. Similarly, Jhpiego’s programming areas have expanded to meet changing needs in the field. In addition to family planning and reproductive health, Jhpiego now has expertise in maternal and child health, infection prevention and control, HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases.

Jhpiego’s work has also expanded to address reproductive health policy and guidelines and to support health systems strengthening. For example, in 1996 in Brazil, Jhpiego launched a performance and quality improvement approach, now known as Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-R), which has since been implemented in 30 countries. SBM-R empowers health workers and facilities to improve the performance and quality of their services by providing them with the tools and methods they need to make decisions, solve problems and innovate at the local level.

Innovations in Training Methods and Technologies

In 1986, Jhpiego pioneered a competency-based training (CBT) approach that emphasizes learning by doing. CBT focuses on how the participant performs and promotes the trainer’s ability to encourage learning. Jhpiego also introduced the use of anatomic models for “humanistic training.” To minimize risk to clients, learners first practice on models until they achieve competency. In 1995, a clinical training skills manual—the cornerstone of Jhpiego’s training approach—was published. Using a systematic “training of trainers” approach, Jhpiego has created a global network of qualified physician, nurse and midwife trainers.

As early as 1984, Jhpiego collaborated with the University of the West Indies to deliver reproductive health courses, via satellite, to six islands in the Caribbean. In 1987, Jhpiego sponsored a global meeting on reproductive health education and technology with the World Health Organization (WHO) and introduced computer-assisted instruction to simulate clinical situations in several of its US-based courses. In 1995, ReproLine, an online source for reproductive health information, was launched. Today, Jhpiego continues to explore new learning technologies: mobile phones in Afghanistan, a computer-based learning management system in Ethiopia, computer-based training in Ghana, a distance learning program in Zambia.

Practical Solutions for Low-Resource Settings

Since the 1992 publication of its international reference standard Infection Prevention for Family Planning Service Programs, Jhpiego has been at the forefront in promoting evidence-based practices that can protect health care professionals, staff and clients from potentially life-threatening infections. To this end, Jhpiego has tested and introduced practical, low-cost infection prevention procedures that can be implemented effectively in settings with limited resources.

In developing countries, cervical cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. In 1995, Jhpiego began research with the University of Zimbabwe to find a low-cost alternative to the Pap test that could make cervical cancer prevention a reality in low-resource settings. Based on the results of this research, Jhpiego helped form the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention in 1999 and received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its cervical cancer program. Since that time, Jhpiego has developed and piloted the single visit approach in which women are screened and treated during the same visit.

In 1995, Jhpiego began addressing HIV/AIDS and its integration with family planning services. Six years later, Jhpiego began work in HIV voluntary counseling and testing with a USAID-funded project in Jamaica. In 2002, Jhpiego received its first funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for work in HIV/AIDS and, the following year, developed a global learning package on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV—with CDC, WHO and university partners—to enable global scale-up. Also in 2003, Jhpiego began work on male circumcision for HIV prevention in Zambia. In 2008, Jhpiego developed a global learning package on male circumcision for HIV prevention with WHO and UNAIDS.

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Overview:

Under the general supervision of the West and Central Africa (WCA) Regional Director, the Country Director is Jhpiego’s representative in Nigeria. This position also serves as Chief of Party for the Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) in Nigeria.

The Country Director is the primary contact for all information and requests for technical or programmatic assistance for new or ongoing Jhpiego and MCSP activities in Nigeria. The Country Director is responsible for ensuring programmatic and operational integrity of Jhpiego’s and MCSP’s activities in Nigeria. As COP the candidate will provide vision, leadership and direction to ensure the strategic, programmatic, technical, and financial integrity for the programs under MCSP in Nigeria. This includes planning, implementation and monitoring of program activities, presenting Jhpiego and MCSP’s Nigeria’s activities, overseeing financial management and compliance, fostering a productive team environment, and ensuring safety. The Country Director also leads strategic planning and new business development activities.

The Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) is a global, USAID Cooperative Agreement operating in 24 high priority countries to introduce and support high-impact health interventions with the ultimate goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths within a generation. The Program is focused on ensuring that all women, newborns and children most in need have equitable access to quality health care services to save lives. USAID’s MCSP supports programming in maternal, newborn and child health, immunization, family planning and reproductive health, nutrition, health systems strengthening, water/sanitation/hygiene, malaria, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and pediatric HIV care and treatment.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide strategic leadership and set technical and programmatic priorities for in-country programs ensuring that they are  technically sound, evidence- based and responsive to the needs of Nigeria, its people and donors
  • Cultivate strategic relationships and alliances with ministries, donors, implementing partners and other key stakeholders to advance Nigeria’s strategy
  • Support Global Programs Vice President and WCA Regional Director in developing and implementing processes for providing Jhpiego staff worldwide with updates, technical direction, approaches and successes of the Nigeria country programs
  • Ensure successful management, technical, programmatic and financial implementation of Nigeria’s programs and awards
  • Provide direct technical support to ongoing programs as needed
  • Ensure that Jhpiego’s project management approaches and tools are utilized in management of projects
  • Lead development of country and award work plans including budgets and modifications as required
  • Work with the WCA Regional Director, HQ program and technical backstops and program partners to ensure successful programmatic, technical and financial implementation of the country’s programs and awards
  • Keep the WCA Regional Director informed of successes, challenges, and lessons learned in managing the country programs
  • Ensure preparation and timely submission of all programmatic and financial reports to Jhpiego and donors
  • Support Program and Technical Review (PTR) processes and subsequent action planning to ensure the highest quality programming
  • Lead process to proactively identify and document risks that can negatively affect program deliverables, and develop strategies to mitigate risk
  • Review projects’ annual work plans to ensure that they advance the program’s overall strategy, meet key deliverables to achieve project objectives and adequately define work that is achievable within the given timeframe and budget
  • Ensure that all projects have strong monitoring and evaluation plans and comply with Jhpiego best practices
  • Ensure that all research and learning activities are compliant with review and approval processes of JHU’s institutional review board and Nigeria’s human research ethical review committee
  • Seek opportunities to present work and learning from projects
  • Ensure that programs are working within resources available and that they are fiscally sound
  • Manage and supervise the work of Jhpiego staff and contractors in country, including those providing technical, programmatic, financial and administrative services, to maximize efficiency and effectiveness
  • Promote and support the staffs’ understanding of and compliance with Jhpiego, JHU and donors’ operational policies and regulations and Nigerian laws and complete the annual compliance certification
  • Support Internal Control Reviews and external audits and take action to address any findings
  • Provide oversight and support to Human Resource Management
  • Motivate, mentor and develop capacity among local staff, in particular senior staff
  • Hire administrative and technical staff with appropriate competencies and manage them to meet timely delivery of country program outputs
  • Ensure appropriate orientation for new staff
  • Assure role clarity and proactively resolve confusion or conflicts
  • Ensure that annual staff evaluations are completed on schedule and support professional development for staff supervised
  • Maintain and implement Jhpiego safety and security procedures and coordinate with Jhpiego’s global security advisors, including the development and updating of local security procedures
  • Establish local information sources to keep abreast of security information
  • Maintain current emergency contact procedures (travel notifications, SMS lists, telephone trees, etc.) for all staff, as well as hibernation and evacuation plans
  • Lead the management of any incidents accordingly in coordination with HQ staff and Jhpiego’s global security advisors
  • Expand Jhpiego’s in-country opportunities through relationships developed with in-country partners, donors and the business community, as well as through strengthening local program implementation capacity
  • Provide analyses of in-country business development opportunities to the relevant staff in the regional and new program development offices at headquarters
  • Assist with the creation, leadership, and management of in country proposal development teams, and provide technical, programmatic and financial inputs for proposals
  • Participate in final review of all technical and programmatic portions of proposals of applications developed for implementation in Nigeria
  • Represent Jhpiego in professional circles through meetings, conferences and presentations in Nigeria, the region, and internationally
  • Develop and maintain excellent relationships with colleagues and donors including US government (USAID, CDC), foundations, and corporations within the country and region
  • Conduct stakeholder analysis for all Jhpiego projects and employ strategies to manage stakeholders well
  • Ensure staff are included in sharing of information and knowledge and that flow of information comes from the field as well as from Baltimore
  • Ensure that the country office has adequate IT and technology support systems and processes in place and is compliant with the Jhpiego IT Policy

Required Qualifications:

  • 10+ years’ experience successfully leading the implementation and management of large public health programs, preferably within Nigeria or other anglophone Africa countries
  • Advanced degree in public health, health administration, international health or a related field
  • Strong business development experience, including proposal writing and negotiating with host country government and partner organizations
  • Strong project management skills with experience using program management tools (Gantt charts, stakeholder matrix, work breakdown structure, issues logs, project charters, etc.)
  • Extensive working knowledge of the international health program development field, in particular reproductive, maternal neonatal and child health and HIV/AIDS
  • Working knowledge and understanding of rules and regulations of international and U.S. donor agencies, in particular USAID
  • Capacity for analyzing technical problems and issues which impede efforts to provide improved health care to populations; developing technical solutions to these problems/issues and assisting in the design of operational research which could yield appropriate solutions to these problems/issues.
  • Thorough understanding of and ability to analyze financial documents, projections, expenditures and accruals
  • Proven leadership and management skills, as demonstrated by successful previous residential leadership in one or more developing countries
  • Experience in leading and working with multi-cultural staff, including awareness of and sensitivity to working with multi-cultural groups in multiple socio-economic settings
  • Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and coordination
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills in English and French, demonstrating an ability to communicate with various audiences including stakeholders, partners, and donors
  • Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
  • Ability to develop productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations worldwide
  • Ability to provide technical leadership to develop innovative country program
  • Ability to communicate effectively, instilling trust and confidence

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package including: medical and dental plans; paid vacation, holidays and sick leave; personal accident insurance; 403(b) retirement plan; life and disability insurance; travel insurance; education assistance plan and more.

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation. 2018-02-24

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