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Society for Family Health (SFH) is one of the leading non-governmental public health organisations in Nigeria, implementing programmes in Reproductive Health/Family Planning, HIV & AIDS prevention and treatment, malaria prevention and treatment, primary health care system strengthening and maternal, newborn and child health care. We work in partnership with the Federal and State Governments of Nigeria, the Global Fund, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Department for International Development (DFID), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MSD for Mothers and Children Investment Fund Foundation among other international donors.

Humanitarian Programme Advisor

Ref Id: sfh-19272
Location: Abuja
Job Type: Temporary
Duration of Contract: 2 years

Job Profile

  • Coordination of SFH’s humanitarian activities in the North East; assisting with ongoing and planned projects.

Job-role
The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

  • Improve efficiency, coordination and timeliness in the humanitarian work, as well as to apply holistic programming approaches
  • Coordinate, review and input on humanitarian assessments, reports, proposals, sector programme plans, master budgets, response strategy and other key planning processes and documents
  • Ensure cross-sector collaboration among technical units/sectors during humanitarian crises
  • Ensure integration with ongoing development and transition to development programmes, and identify possible durable solutions whenever possible
  • Contribute to the development of new funding proposals for humanitarian responses.

Qualifications/Experience

  • A minimum of bachelor’s degree in a related field
  • A minimum of five (5) years of progressive experience in delivering health and nutritional service within a humanitarian context.

Skills and competencies:

  • The successful candidate will be a person of integrity with excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication, organisational, and cross-cultural skills. Demonstrated ability to manage team performance, a high level of creativity and innovation, ability to perform and prioritise a variety of tasks on short notice within designated deadlines and able to maintain efficiency in a fast-paced work environment.

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Society for Family Health is one of Nigeria’s largest non-governmental organisations. Founded in 1985 by three eminent Nigerians: Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti (late), Justice Ifeyinwa Nzeako (late), Pharmacist Dahiru Wali and Phil Harvey.Society for Family Health Nigeria has a mission to empower Nigerians, particularly the poor and vulnerable to lead healthier lives.Working with the private and public sectors, SFH adopts social marketing and behaviour change communication to improve access to essential health information, services, and products to motivate the adoption of healthy behaviours.By 2017, SFH will be a strong, vibrant, highly efficient organisation conducting value for money (efficient) scalable yet focused interventions. Using a total market approach (using social marketing, free distribution and cost recovery services) SFH will be implementing projects that will target:50% of the burden of disease in Nigeria 50% of persons within the lower 3 wealth quintiles, who will have access to SFH products or interventions A 5% increase in DALYs yearly with 2012 as the baseline SFH will also have a 10% decrease in cost per DALY averted over the period of 2013-2017 using the 2012 value as deadline, and will have generated a 20% increase in unrestricted funds by 2017 compared to 2012. SFH will have developed a plan to spin off a subsidiary conducting logistics, research training, costs recovery products and specific interventions aimed at the for-profit sector including the oil and manufacturing sectors.

0 USD Abuja CF 3201 Abc road Contract , 40 hours per week Society for Family Health (SFH)

Society for Family Health (SFH) is one of the leading non-governmental public health organisations in Nigeria, implementing programmes in Reproductive Health/Family Planning, HIV & AIDS prevention and treatment, malaria prevention and treatment, primary health care system strengthening and maternal, newborn and child health care. We work in partnership with the Federal and State Governments of Nigeria, the Global Fund, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Department for International Development (DFID), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MSD for Mothers and Children Investment Fund Foundation among other international donors.

Humanitarian Programme Advisor

Ref Id: sfh-19272 Location: Abuja Job Type: Temporary Duration of Contract: 2 yearsJob Profile

  • Coordination of SFH’s humanitarian activities in the North East; assisting with ongoing and planned projects.

Job-role The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

  • Improve efficiency, coordination and timeliness in the humanitarian work, as well as to apply holistic programming approaches
  • Coordinate, review and input on humanitarian assessments, reports, proposals, sector programme plans, master budgets, response strategy and other key planning processes and documents
  • Ensure cross-sector collaboration among technical units/sectors during humanitarian crises
  • Ensure integration with ongoing development and transition to development programmes, and identify possible durable solutions whenever possible
  • Contribute to the development of new funding proposals for humanitarian responses.

Qualifications/Experience

  • A minimum of bachelor’s degree in a related field
  • A minimum of five (5) years of progressive experience in delivering health and nutritional service within a humanitarian context.

Skills and competencies:

  • The successful candidate will be a person of integrity with excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication, organisational, and cross-cultural skills. Demonstrated ability to manage team performance, a high level of creativity and innovation, ability to perform and prioritise a variety of tasks on short notice within designated deadlines and able to maintain efficiency in a fast-paced work environment.
2019-08-03

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